Re: Satellite latency

2002-02-28 Thread Jim Mercer
gt;newyork. (although, depending on the phase of the moon, sometimes teleglobe and/or alternet resemble the previous paragraph). 8^) -- [ Jim Mercer[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 416 410-5633 ] [ I want to live forever, or die trying.]

looking to reduce hops from toronto to singtel

2002-03-22 Thread Jim Mercer
anyone got any ideas on who might be able to reduce my hopcount from toronto to singtel? currently we are seeing uunet->alternet->bbnplanet->singtel. i'd like to reduce the points of failure from here to there. -- [ Jim Mercer[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 416 410-5633

Re: NANOG costs

2002-04-10 Thread Jim Mercer
minor quibble. on http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0206/index.html, it says: "Richmond Hill, Ontario, CN" i suspect it was meant as "Richmond Hill, Ontario, CA". we used to joke about needing a passport to go that far north of downtown, but Richmond Hill isn't in Chin

Re: [off topic]Re: NANOG costs

2002-04-10 Thread Jim Mercer
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 04:52:58PM -0400, Douglas A. Dever wrote: > Previously, Jim Mercer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > minor quibble. > > > > on http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0206/index.html, it says: > > "Richmond Hill, Ontario, CN" > > > > i su

Re: CIA Warns of Chinese Plans for Cyber-Attacks on U.S.

2002-04-26 Thread Jim Mercer
rism, the least they could do is find a way to corral the efforts of Microsoft, the biggest cyberterrorist of all. -- [ Jim Mercer[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 416 410-5633 ] [ I want to live forever, or die trying.]

Re: NANOG 25 - Toronto - Any Questions?

2002-04-30 Thread Jim Mercer
na be a 2-3 hour drive from the conference depending on traffic. about half of that is city, and the other half vineyards and country. -- [ Jim Mercer[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 416 410-5633 ] [ I want to live forever, or die trying.]

Re: NANOG 25 - Toronto - Any Questions?

2002-04-30 Thread Jim Mercer
to the falls now? i guess its been a while since i been down that way. i usually head north from toronto (well, north-east). -- [ Jim Mercer[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 416 410-5633 ] [ I want to live forever, or die trying.]

Re: anybody else been spammed by "no-ip.com" yet?

2002-05-04 Thread Jim Mercer
ject this as "it will destroy the net". Camram > requires people to give up CPU cycles. This might be an easier thing to > swallow. this will work well for those of us who are trying to enable non-1st world communications. ever tried to source an 1Ghz processor in centr

bandwidth providers in 60 hudson

2002-05-31 Thread Jim Mercer
i'm looking to buy some decent connectivity for a suite on the 18th floor of 60 hudson, NYC. OC3 or 100m ethernet. direct or indirect connectivity to some exchanges would be good too. private email would be nice. -- [ Jim Mercer[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 416 410

Re: Off Topic: ISP's in Pakistan?

2002-06-12 Thread Jim Mercer
t be able to assist, please respond to me > privately. i built an ISP in Karachi last year, and those prices don't sound out of line. you should note that any service based on "public airwaves" should be avoided, as the bulk of the 900Mhz/2.4Ghz space is completely in use. if you&#

Re: OSI's final revenge

2002-06-14 Thread Jim Mercer
wly-appointed vice chairman of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board..." yep, the Critical Infrastructure needs to be overseen by the same people who brought us the Outlook Virus Launch Platform, and the Internet Information Server/Virus Incubator. -- [ Jim Mercer

Re: Sean takes a vacation somewhere sunny....

2002-06-16 Thread Jim Mercer
would probably have less latency. -- [ Jim Mercer[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 416 410-5633 ] [ I want to live forever, or die trying.]

Re: SPEWS?

2002-06-21 Thread Jim Mercer
anybody else see the irony of posting to USENET as an anti-spam measure? USENET being one of the harvesting engines the spammers use to collect addresses. i still get spam sent to the id i only used i used when i actually still used news. -- [ Jim Mercer[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1

Re: KVM over IP suggestions?

2005-08-22 Thread Jim Mercer
might want to check out: http://www.realvnc.com/products/KVM-over-IP/ -- [ Jim Mercerjim@reptiles.org +1 416 410-5633 ] [ I want to live forever, or die trying.]

Re: MAE-WEST - 55 S Market area equipment sourcing

2006-05-24 Thread Jim Mercer
. i was thinking of putting a vending machine in 151 Front (Toronto), selling cables and bits for outrageous prices. -- [ Jim Mercerjim@reptiles.org +1 416 410-5633 ] [ I want to live forever, or die trying.]

managing mycompany.{all iso TLD + icann TLD) ?

2006-07-24 Thread Jim Mercer
istered elsewhere, but we want parked in a central location. -- [ Jim Mercerjim@reptiles.org+971 50 436-3874 ] [ I want to live forever, or die trying.]

Re: managing mycompany.{all iso TLD + icann TLD) ?

2006-07-24 Thread Jim Mercer
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 12:35:26PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > > ... and registering the > > string in 435 TLD's just to make sure they can't is the worst kind of > > stupid. well, you know that, and i know that, but apparently senior management would never take

weight vs. volume (95th percentile vs transfer in M/Gbytes)

2007-08-08 Thread Jim Mercer
g a tough time budgetting for some of my applications. (pisses me off because i'm sure _they_ are paying by 995th percentile) with 95th percentile, i could always trottle down the applications or figure out what my estimated `overage might be. has anyone got a formula for comparing 95th percentile bi

Re: Network Operator Groups Outside the US

2008-01-17 Thread Jim Mercer
ie. light bulb and basketball) -- Jim Mercer[EMAIL PROTECTED]+971 55 410-5633 "I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak." - Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret

Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption

2008-01-31 Thread Jim Mercer
ive customers (porn, dating sites, and social networking sites like facebook/etc) and techno-political bents (ie. many sites relative to VoIP and web proxies are blocked) -- Jim Mercer[EMAIL PROTECTED]+971 55 410-5633 "I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm

Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption

2008-02-01 Thread Jim Mercer
Persian Gulf, near Dubai > (http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Internet-Outages.html). beings as i live in dubai, i can also add that over the last two days there have been some quite strong winds blowing. which i supposed could be a factor in a ship dragging its anchor across a f

Re: YouTube IP Hijacking

2008-02-25 Thread Jim Mercer
en in due course. -- Jim Mercer[EMAIL PROTECTED]+971 55 410-5633 "I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak." - Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Serv

Re: YouTube IP Hijacking

2008-02-25 Thread Jim Mercer
s, and probably fat wobbly fingers in a rush to comply with a government directive. > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Jim Mercer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > having built an ISP or two in pakistan, PTCL (Pakistan Telecom) is not the > > sole provid

Re: YouTube IP Hijacking

2008-02-25 Thread Jim Mercer
the laws of one do not necessarily follow in another. -- Jim Mercer[EMAIL PROTECTED]+971 55 410-5633 "I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak." - Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and President Lyndon John

Re: Why is RFC1918 space in public DNS evil?

2006-09-18 Thread Jim Mercer
issues aside, I believe you are right. Still, if VPN is > the problem than it is solvable. These machines can be configured with a > DNS server that knows where to go. if the hosts inside the VPN can only be accessed by hostnames served up inside the VPN, then it is more likely the users

Re: Why is RFC1918 space in public DNS evil?

2006-09-18 Thread Jim Mercer
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 08:36:44AM -0400, Daniel Senie wrote: > At 04:33 AM 9/18/2006, Jim Mercer wrote: > >if the hosts inside the VPN can only be accessed by hostnames served up > >inside > >the VPN, then it is more likely the users can be confident that their data >

Re: Zimbabwe satellite service shutdown for non-payment

2006-09-19 Thread Jim Mercer
oblem. i would imagine that this was a last option for intelsat, as they have been the backbone for many places, especially those away from western infrastucture for a long time. "The state company TelOne acknowledged receiving a final demand for payment of its satellite arrears last month an

Dubai

2007-01-22 Thread Jim Mercer
. -- [ Jim Mercerjim@reptiles.org+971 50 436-3874 ] [ I want to live forever, or die trying.]

Re: death of the net predicted by deloitte -- film at 11

2007-02-11 Thread Jim Mercer
e YellowPages can't find cheap paper to print their directories? surely they could have found a more relevant source. -- [ Jim Mercerjim@reptiles.org+971 50 436-3874 ] [ I want to live forever, or die trying.]

Re: A nice description of why the Internet is slow

2007-03-14 Thread Jim Mercer
ntroduced when Homeland Security mandates that everyone going in and out of Quickie-Mart needs to be strip searched looking for weapons of mass destruction. -- [ Jim Mercerjim@reptiles.org+971 50 436-3874 ] [ I want to live forever, or die trying.]