Re: cpu needed to NAT 45mbs

2007-11-12 Thread Carl Karsten
Thank you for all the advice - it was nice to see 20 replies that all basically agreed (and with me too.) If only the 6 people involved in this project were such. On Wifi for 1000: I have tried to make sure everyone involved in this PyCon Wifi project has read

cpu needed to NAT 45mbs

2007-11-08 Thread Carl Karsten
I do the networking in my house, and hang out with guys that do networking in small offices that have a few T1s. Now I am talking to people about a DS3 connection for 500 laptops*, and I am bing told a p4 linux box with 2 nics doing NAT will not be able to handle the load. I am not really

Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy...

2007-08-14 Thread Carl Karsten
David Schwartz wrote: That doesn't make anything criminal or fraud any more than free samples. If a registrar wants to give a refund, I don't see anything wrong with that. It is certainly fraud to take an entire pile of free samples. can you cite how that law reads? Oddly enough I am in

Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy...

2007-08-14 Thread Carl Karsten
John Levine wrote: I am assuming that A. a registrar would get less business being less forgiving than others. Do you know what your current registrar's refund policy is? Do you know what other registrars' policies are? Why haven't you switched to the registrar that offers the cheapest

Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy...

2007-08-13 Thread Carl Karsten
The real way to get rid of tasting would be to persuade Google and Yahoo/Overture to stop paying for clicks on pages with no content other than ads, but that would be far too reasonable. I don't see a practical way to enforce it. I believe the Net is an unstable system that will eventually

Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy...

2007-08-13 Thread Carl Karsten
Chris L. Morrow wrote: On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, John C. A. Bambenek wrote: That's exactly the problem the goal of tasting is to collect pay per click ad revenue... Ten years ago the internet was for porn, now it's for MLM/Affiliate/PPC scams. As long as we put up with companies abusing

Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy...

2007-08-13 Thread Carl Karsten
Chris L. Morrow wrote: On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Steve Atkins wrote: On Aug 13, 2007, at 11:03 AM, Chris L. Morrow wrote: So, to be clear folks want to make it much more difficult for grandma-jones to return the typo'd: mygramdkids.com for mygrandkids.com right? If grandma-jones orders custom

Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy...

2007-08-13 Thread Carl Karsten
Barry Shein wrote: On August 13, 2007 at 10:11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Douglas Otis) wrote: On Aug 12, 2007, at 6:41 AM, John Levine wrote: The problems with domain tasting more affect web users, with vast number of typosquat parking pages flickering in and out of existence.

Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy...

2007-08-13 Thread Carl Karsten
Ken Eddings wrote: At 4:32 PM -0400 8/13/07, Justin Scott wrote: Do people really not plan that far ahead, that they need brand new domain names to be active (not just reserved) within seconds? I can say from my experience working in a web development environment, yes. I can recall several

Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy...

2007-08-13 Thread Carl Karsten
J Bacher wrote: Carl Karsten wrote: That is, if you extend domains on credit w/o any useful accountability of the buyer and this results in a pattern of criminality then the liability for that fraud should be shared by the seller. I am not sure tasting is criminal or fraud. You got what

Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy...

2007-08-13 Thread Carl Karsten
Douglas Otis wrote: On Aug 13, 2007, at 2:01 PM, Carl Karsten wrote: I am not sure tasting is criminal or fraud. Tracking domain related crime is hindered by the millions of domains registered daily for domain tasting. Unregistered domains likely to attract errant lookups will not vary

Re: Client information?

2007-08-10 Thread Carl Karsten
Peter Dambier wrote: Carl Karsten wrote: I guess yes. They might implement a non swimmers basin for the windows people and a sharks only basin for the rest of us. what is a non swimmers basin ? Hi Carl, in germany our public swimming pools have pools for swimmers and pools

Re: Client information?

2007-08-10 Thread Carl Karsten
I guess yes. They might implement a non swimmers basin for the windows people and a sharks only basin for the rest of us. what is a non swimmers basin ? Carl K

Re: bandwidth for PyCon 08 in Chicago

2007-08-08 Thread Carl Karsten
be reduced since it is matter of cross-connection with local ISP. Hotel may have special arrangement with local ISP just in case of conference or something like that. Hyun Carl Karsten wrote: Let me start with: I pretty much have no clue. but it is ok, because I don't get to spend any money

bandwidth for PyCon 08 in Chicago

2007-08-07 Thread Carl Karsten
Let me start with: I pretty much have no clue. but it is ok, because I don't get to spend any money. But I do get to help figure out how to get internet bandwidth to a hotel near Chicago (Crown in Rosemont) for a week in March 08 and figured maybe someone here can help. There are 2

FCC on wifi at hotel

2007-02-28 Thread Carl Karsten
me again. So wifi at pycon 07 was 'better than 06' witch I hear was a complete disaster. More on 07's coming soon. Now we are talking about wifi at pycon 08, which will be at a different hotel (Crown Plaza in Rosemont, IL) and the question came up: Can the hotel actively prevent us from

Re: wifi for 600, alex

2007-02-15 Thread Carl Karsten
linksys boxes scattered around the place. --srs On 2/15/07, Marshall Eubanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carl Karsten wrote: Hi list, I just read over: http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0302/ppt/joel.pdf because I am on the PyCon ( http://us.pycon.org ) team and last year the hotel supplied wifi for the 600

Re: wifi for 600, alex

2007-02-14 Thread Carl Karsten
Carl Karsten wrote: Hi list, I just read over: http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0302/ppt/joel.pdf because I am on the PyCon ( http://us.pycon.org ) team and last year the hotel supplied wifi for the 600 attendees was a disaster (they probably were not expecting every single one to have and use

wifi for 600, alex

2007-01-23 Thread Carl Karsten
Hi list, I just read over: http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0302/ppt/joel.pdf because I am on the PyCon ( http://us.pycon.org ) team and last year the hotel supplied wifi for the 600 attendees was a disaster (they probably were not expecting every single one to have and use a laptop the whole time).