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
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0302
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 reall
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 ref
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
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 lookup
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
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 ca
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 existenc
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 st
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
t
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 b
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 for
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
ion cost may 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 t
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 aspect
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 usi
t a fast VDSL or maybe a T1, with random 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 PyC
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 a
Sure I could route dns queries out through a ssh tunnel but the
latency makes this kind of thing unusable at times.
instead of an ssh tunnel, how about simple port forwarding?
/etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 127.0.0.1
And then whatever it takes to forward 127.0.0.1:53 to a dns that is listing o
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).
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