12/2    So I am trying to convince my company to take disaster planning
        more seriously. Does anyone have any hard numbers on how often
        data centers fail? I mean blow up, burn down, flood, etc, with
        total loss of all services for an extended period of time.
        \_ hard numbers tend to be SEKRET.  But check out Yahoo's recent
           outage and UltraDNS' outage.  Those were both pretty bad.
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12/1    "Highest tide in 20 years floods historic Venice - Yahoo! News"
        http://www.csua.org/u/n0v
        Flooding in Venice?  Isn't Venice the "City of Water" which is always
        flooded anyway?
        \_ Venice is frequently, but not always, flooded. There was a good
           Nova eps. about flooding in Venice and possible solutions a few
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12/12   "Ominous Arctic melt worries experts"
        http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071212/ap_on_sc/arctic_melt
        \_ Global warming is a liberal lie.
        \_ Isn't the antarctic ice growing?
           \_ You mean like how the area of the antarctic ice shelf
              has radically shrunk and huge icebergs have broken off?
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7/18    Zacks predicts Peak Oil in the next five years:
        http://biz.yahoo.com/zacks/070713/8635.html?.v=1
        \_ I was saying that 3 years ago on the motd and everyone said I was
           a tin foil hat wearing nutcase.
           \_ You were. Anyway, the article doesn't say there will be
              peak oil in the next five years. It says demand will
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5/8     why you are getting all that blue frog spam
        http://q.queso.com/archives/001917 - danh
        \_ While I'm not ready to call it outright bullshit, I'm skeptical:
           * Most DNS operators with a clue set TTL values to cache records
             for 24 hours to one week.  The DNS notify mechanism leaves much
             to be desired.  Thus, changing a DNS pointer is unlikely to
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8/29    What's the difference between a hub, a switch and a router?  Thx.
        \_ AFAIK, probably be corrected by someone:
           hub: Allows communication on a LAN with bandwith shared amongs all
                the nodes on the hub and maxing out at the max line speed.
           switch: Allows communication on a LAN with bandwith greater than
                the max line speed (point to point)
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3/11    What do I need to do to make sure I don't get sued when I use
        bittorrent? I am still a newbie. Thx.
        \_ Azureus bittorrent client w/ safepeer plug-in supposedly
           blacklists evil MPAA spy machines...
        \_ Don't download copyrighted materials, or run it on someone else's
           machine.
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12/18   How do I find soda's IP address?  More specifically, if I want to
        give out my email address as <login>@IP_address, how would I do it?
        \_ host http://soda.csua.berkeley.edu
           Why would you want to give that out as an email address?
           It would be very ill-advised. IP addresses change.
           \_ Wanted to trick a subscription list into letting me have more
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3/19    can someone post a host name that is a public relay
        smtp host? This is not for spam, but I'd just like to
        set all my email clients to some reliable smtp that
        I can always mail through, regardless of connection,
        thanks.
        \_ any host that does this is likely to wind up on the
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3/1     What is the soda DNS cache timeout? How long should it take to update
        the IP of a named system?
        \_ Doesn't this depend on the information the name server recieved
           about the ttl of the IN A/PTR record?  Also the name server
           may have a minimum ttl below which it will not accept an update.
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5/25    Anybody know how to save realaudio files. I am trying to get
        some content from this site. Unfortunately I save link manages to
        get me only a small file with information to where the actual data
        is located. Thanks --marc
        \_ that's how real media works, you can get the real file by making a
           a link in an html file that points to the real file, then holding
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8/6     In linux what is the device name to read and write to and from
        tcp/ip?
        \_ There is no IP or Ethernet raw device, like on some other Unix
           systems.  Typically you would use socket calls (accept(2),
           connect(2), etc.); there is a socket type called SOCK_RAW,
           which lets you use some network facilities more directly.
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