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Journeyman Geek

22:17

morning

Canadian Luke

Recovering from someone downloading "Locky" cryptoware

-.- At least it was only her folders and her department's folders...

Journeyman Geek

heh

this is why I need to implement read only backups at one point

Anonymous

22:35

@CanadianLuke that sounds awful

Canadian Luke

@JourneymanGeek The backup server is ONLY accessible from the other servers, and with a private key I have with PuTTY and WinSCP

At least they told me quick enough to catch it

Only this morning's work is gone

Anonymous

@CanadianLuke seems like you had a busy day

Canadian Luke

Just happened an hour ago

That's why I insist on my backup servers running <thumbs up emoji>

Anonymous

@CanadianLuke what time is there?

Canadian Luke

Only 14:38

Anonymous

22:38

oh

Canadian Luke

Got the message around 13:10, went back to my office (13:30), and went to work

Dave

@bwDraco: Is your gopher server still running? I

brb checking it out!

Bob

O_O

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Dave

@bwDraco: Not a valid hostname

bwDraco

Huh?

gopher://gopher.fierydragonlord.com/

Dave

22:42

oh wait im retarded

its working

bwDraco

The Floodgap Systems Gopher server uses an IBM Power 520 Express. I wonder how many still use such old, specialized hardware...

@Dave Are you on Verizon Wireless LTE?

(That's what my server logs tell me.)

Journeyman Geek

@bwDraco wouldn't be suprised if it was a case of "We had it lying around"

I mean, who dosen't have 2-3 old, operable machines lying around?

Dave

22:57

@bwDraco: Yup, unlimited data

bwDraco

Grandfathered, like @allquixotic?

Anonymous

@bwDraco does gopher show a user agent string?

Dave

@bwDraco: I tether on my other computer @ work.

allquixotic

he wouldn't have unlimited data if he weren't grandfathered

Dave

;]

bwDraco

22:59

@Dave Bucktooth does a reverse DNS lookup and stores the result in the log which is how I determined you were on Verizon Wireless. (cc @PatoSáinz)

Journeyman Geek

@PatoSáinz you could whois the IP too

Anonymous

there's no reason for verizon to change your user agent

Anonymous

I asked what I asked not out of confusion, just curiosity

Anonymous

of course you can whois or rDNS

allquixotic

@bwDraco pato doesn't live in a country that gets VZW service o.o

bwDraco

23:00

Gopher does not use user agent strings.

Anonymous

ok then

Journeyman Geek

also, user agent only tells you what browser it is.

Anonymous

@allquixotic lol

Anonymous

@JourneymanGeek hence I said it was unrelated

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic he could be! And paying rediculous roaming fees!

allquixotic

23:01

@JourneymanGeek a dollar per megabyte or something?

Journeyman Geek

beats me

allquixotic

oh, i bought 100 MB of roaming data in Canada and got 25 MB free as a bonus because I complained it sucks.... and that much data cost me $25

Anonymous

I'm so happy with my new temperatures

allquixotic

that was for a few days' trip

@PatoSáinz you gave your computer ibuprofen?

Anonymous

@allquixotic changed stock cooler, rearranged fans

Anonymous

23:03

changed thermal paste too

Anonymous

@allquixotic my mobile plan is kinda shit and below what market offers at the same price point... I haven't changed because of inertia

Anonymous

my plan is 17 USD monthly, and it comes with a good amount of texts, calls and 1.5GB of data iirc

bwDraco

About $2/MB on AT&T.

Dave

i can confirm there's no user agent string being sent

Anonymous

and it also comes with a pre-loaded wallet of 14 USD or so

Anonymous

23:05

and I can choose to use that wallet to purchase additional data for the month: 5 USD for 650 MB

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek User agent only tells you what I tell my browser to tell you (user agent spoofing)

Anonymous

@bwDraco lol and I'm here complaining that my plan is too expensive for what it is

Anonymous

2 dollars per meg LOL

allquixotic

isn't it like $4000 per GB to roam outside Australia for @Bob

Dave

I even have unlimited nationwide roaming

Bob

23:08

@allquixotic Was it .002 cents per kB?

Dave

And unlimited long distance

Anonymous

@Dave >nationwide roaming

Anonymous

what's that

Bob

@allquixotic verizonmath.blogspot.com.au/2006/12/…

Anonymous

I only know about int'l roaming

Dave

23:09

@PatoSáinz: Using other carriers towers to make calls.

Bob

@allquixotic I think it might've gotten better recently.

Anonymous

@Dave oh that seems useful

Anonymous

only calls or data too?

Dave

Both.

Bob

Huh, $29 for 100 MB: telstra.com.au/international-roaming/pre-paid-mobile

But it's $3/MB if you go over O_O

Anonymous

23:11

it bothers me so much

Anonymous

TOTAL DATA ISN'T A SCARCE RESOURCE

Anonymous

BANDWIDTH IS

Anonymous

FOR FUCK'S SAKE

Dave

lol

Anonymous

didn't telstra have a free data day and somebody downloaded like 500TB of torrents or something? lol

Dave

23:12

@PatoSáinz: There's always this tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2549

Anonymous

@Dave haha never gets old

Dave

@PatoSáinz: There was actually a old LUG group that actually implemented it and took pictures.

Its great.

Anonymous

@Dave yea I did see it

Dave

@PatoSáinz: the sites down but archives still has it :) Here's the official if you never saw that one... web.archive.org/web/20130329172918/http://www.blug.linux.no/… even has pictures of alan cox in some of them.

But yea its great

love it

:D

theres legendary alan cox, rumor is that hes a bad ass.

Journeyman Geek

@PatoSáinz Which is why almost all the local consumer ISPs here don't have data caps ;p

Anonymous

23:27

@Dave hahaha pure gold

Dave

yeah, definately looked like a lot of fun.

bwDraco

@JourneymanGeek Not all here. Time Warner Cable Internet and Verizon Fios don't have data caps, but Comcast and AT&T do.

(Comcast's data cap of 300 GB doesn't currently apply in all markets.)

Journeyman Geek

@bwDraco I pay for maximum data speed and some other features

There's one ISP that has a plan that's ~10 dollars more promising lower latency

Anonymous

I have fibre

Anonymous

and ISPs in my country have good peering so latency is not an issue

Journeyman Geek

23:30

erf.

Dave

They advertise fiber here in town.. yet its IFITL.. I hate it when they do that. AT&T was going to come out and install it at my place, first question they asked me was.. 'Do you have a phone jack around here?' -- I shunned him out the door pretty quick after that. "Ill keep my copper wires for my phone line thanks"

Anonymous

my ISP unfortunately put a data cap (a very high data cap anyway) but since they can't change my contract, I'm grandfathered with unlimited data

Journeyman Geek

@Dave most public housing here has fibre to the premesis, and most private housing has it nearby.

bwDraco

AT&T data caps range from 150 GB (for DSL) to 1 TB (for fibre).

Journeyman Geek

Government started and spun off the company that operates it, and its a lot cheaper when you do it in bulk the first time

Dave

23:33

Yeah, but if they're forced to run it over copper lines.. They should at least not advertise it as fiber. And tell the customer that the service is going to suck.

bwDraco

Information on AT&T data caps: att.com/esupport/article.html#!/dsl-high-speed/KM1010099

Dave

speedtest.net/awards/us/charlotte-nc

Copper

bwDraco

150 GB for DSL
250 GB for cable (HFC)
500 GB for fibre up to 300 Mbps
1 TB for gigabit fibre

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Mind telling that to the AU gov?

Anonymous

50 USD/month for fibre+land line

Anonymous

23:40

5 mbit up, 80 mbit down

Anonymous

unlimited nat'l calls

Anonymous

(GOD, FIBRE IS SYMMETRICAL WHY ARE YOU LIMITING MY UPLINK FFS)

Michael Frank

@Bob It'll never happen.

Bob

@PatoSáinz It's not symmetrical.

bwDraco

(TWC Internet uses HFC; Verizon Fios is FTTP, or pure fibre.)

Anonymous

23:42

@Bob it isn't? well it depends on how your architecture is laid out (multimode etc)

Anonymous

but I thought only copper and coaxial were asymmetrical by design

Anonymous

not fibre

Bob

@PatoSáinz well, AFAIK you can't really send signals both ways at the same time on any medium

bwDraco

Fibre doesn't necessarily have to be symmetrical. It's 100% possible to dedicate more fibre bandwidth to the downlink than to the uplink. It's just that fibre offers so much bandwidth that ISPs are able to sell symmetrical service.

Bob

Not unless you want to deal with all the collisions that'd cause

Dave

23:44

@bwDraco: Will have FTTH soon as soon as google finishes their work out here.. That's what im looking for.

Bob

So it becomes a matter of allocating frequency and/or time slots

And possibly allocating independent fibre cables entirely

Obviously, if you allocate more to downstream you end up with an asymmetrical connection.

bwDraco

@Bob In FTTP, every building has its own fibre link.

Anonymous

@bwDraco thing is, fibre isn't technically limited to be asymmetrical

Anonymous

like DSL

Bob

It's also entirely possible that your connection to the local node is symmetrical but the node itself has an asymmetrical connection to whatever is upstream.

@bwDraco A "link" is different, I think.

You can have a single link that has, say, 4 cables serving traffic in one direction and 1 cable going the other direction.

bwDraco

23:48

@Bob They run fibre from the node to every building with service.

Bob

@bwDraco And? I don't see how anything I've said contradicts that.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob we're smaller tho

Bob

Perhaps a single cable is enough for each premises to the node, to get a symmetrical connection to the local node, but they then have 10 cables from the node to whatever is upstream and they allocate 8/10 of those for one direction and 2/10 for the other direction.

That's entirely doable. And quite likely, for residential connections.

Journeyman Geek

also, most household links are single mode

netlinktrust.com/next-gen-nbn/res-why-ngnbn/about-fibre-optics

Bob

"nbn" -_-

Journeyman Geek

23:51

@Bob this is essentially the second generation of non copper/phoneline broadband tho

we also have nationwide cable broadband along the same lines

ChatBot John Cavil

I have just been restarted! This happens daily automatically, or when my owner restarts me. Ready for commands.

Dave

Later all heading home.. Last time it stormed I heard crackling noises in my phone line due to EMI. We all know Fiber provides better service because it's not affected by that. Have a good night.

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