Is GNU/Linux networking as poor as it was before?
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When it came to things like OSPF, BGP, routing, filtering (pf failover) and that sort of networking things, Linux hasn't been the best (though queuing and protocols have had some innovations and dev work).
Anyone have an opinion on this?
For example, Zebra was basically abandoned (it sucked anyway), which now became quagga -- if I wanted a Cisco, I'd get a Cisco. Stop trying to make it a damn emulator.
BGP? I don't even know if there is anything.
iptables is cool, but it just doesn't have failover like pf has (I want people with real-word experience, don't tell me "it's supported" when it's crap.)
While I it may be that their method of sale/distribution did not succeeded, the phone itself, and Android as an OS, is great. I've never owned a better phone.
There has been a lot of whining and griefing about the phone itself. I have no idea WTF all the complaints are about. I get great data and voice coverage (I hear TMobile isn't the best, but it satisfies me), and the only bug I've ever had is that the ringer sound will stop working about once a month -- I have to reboot.
You read that headline right. This should happen ALL THE TIME. It would be good for the markets.
Speculators would be driven out, or driven insane. Emotionally driven traders would have heart attacks.
Sound judgments made based on factual data would not be affected.
Next week, people like me won't give a toot that this ever happened. However, a lot of day traders just pooped their pants. I'm buying men's underwear stocks.
The person who made the mistake will be punished dearly.
Does anyone here remember when Yelp was first starting up? They used UCE/Spam to advertize themselves. My personal account got three or four duplicates across several of my aliases, which told me at the time that they had been using harvested addresses.
The fact that my manager throws a fit if I bring my laptop to meetings to take notes, because "he thinks it's rude". I guess he must think I'm surfing porn rather than looking up information about the subject being discussed, or taking action item notes.
Mod this guy to the front page. Stop the Microsoft vaporware news-ads that have been running lately. AFTER Microsoft has released the product, then you can call it news. Microsoft deserves the reputation that they built for themselves well over a decade: Vaporware, FUD, over-promise under-deliver.
What is to stop members of the public from setting up a distributed license-plate tracking system, to say, track politicians and government officials, and make said information public?
If you can't beat em, at least make it so they can't make any money doing it.
I seem to remember that Linksys/Cisco SRW series switches REQUIRE MSIE v6 for management. Anyone else have more info on this? Yes, Cisco is still selling these today. This isn't an old product.
I have some "fake" Cisco WIC cards for the 2600 series here in a couple of routers. I'll tell you that they work just as well as regular Cisco WIC cards, and the systems you install them into can't tell the difference. These have been running reliably for years now.
Cisco is begging for a counterfeit market for their parts, because they mark up prices to insane levels.
True, it's the research, development, documentation, and support that makes their products great, but charging what they charge is just stupid.
Yes, these are the same cards, my company has several of the large ASA firewalls that these go into, and the Intel cards. Sit them side by side and they are identical. At most, different firmware, but I doubt it. I've never actually tried since we can't be dorking around with production equipment.
Newer Cisco routers and switches are now using licensing for features and ports, so installing non-Cisco-extortion-priced parts won't really be an issue anyway. Reference the 3750-E/3560-E switches and those new 1900/2900/3900 series routers.
It's basically important to the Israelis that they don't appear to be a giant crosshair bomb drop spot for every single country they border, and then two and three countries away, that they don't commit horrible war crimes and acts against humanity while clutching the the victim story of yesterday (of which most victims are now dead and were victimized by completely unrelated people and countries), and that they might half a quarter-tiny-half chance of a viable economy (you know, if the United States wasn't giving the billions each year).
So, it's important to them, but no, nobody else really cares.
Given that their police would put three bullet holes in my Mac Book pro on my arrival to the air port, I think I'll never ever go there in my lifetime.
Uh, it's pretty clear to me that there is an overtone in this article that it's victim's fault that they are not well liked or have social problems.
While I accept that this may be true in some cases, and a contributing factor in many instances, it's shocking and abhorrent to me that someone might suggest that it's the victim's fault that they get physically assaulted, mentally abused, pressured to do drugs, etc.
The common attribute to bullying is bullies. They are the source of the problem (as often a single link in a chain of abuse) and it would be wise to focus on identifying, exposing, and properly reacting to their abusive behavior against others.
I don't want to attack the entire study based on my perception of this article, and I'll support that having poor social skills can contribute to the likelihood of being a bully victim, but WTF?
It's all BS. Forget all of the posts regarding FDA, documentation, testing, and that crap.
It's just a matter of how many units get sold, like microprocessors.
If you design, make, and sell one, it's $500 million. If you design one, make 500 million, and sell 500 million, they cost $1 each. Profit is the same either way.
Not a lot of people buy medical devices, with some exceptions.
Nintendo can't make them and start with high prices, then drop them later. They have to assume how many they will make, sell, and guess a good price before their first unit is sold.
And yes, I have worked in medical device manufacturing, and I currently work in non-profit cancer research. We have numerous genetic sequencers around, like ones from Illumina. They cost like $750K each, but it's really surprising how little materials is actually in them. A $500 laptop is technologically 10,000 times more advanced than one of those Illumina boxes.
It's true that medical devices are more expensive, and I'd be the first person crying foul about it, but they often really really do have good reasons to justify the higher costs... usually.
If you want to talk about price rape, look no further than Cisco.
Real-world TMobile customer here, with a MyTouch 3G.
I don't have any problem with 3G coverage in Phoenix AZ. Do I really expect to get 3G coverage outside of the city? No. I get EDGE and regular old GSM out on the road and in rural areas, and that's just fine.
More than anything, I would say that 3G and coverage complaints are an issue of expectation management. Customers expect wacky things, like their phones to work underground and behind four feet of concrete and metal, or to get 3G in Podunk Alaska.
Try Seamonkey 2.0 and compare it to Firefox 3.5 you will understand what I mean. The decision to cater to grandma and stupid users was about as dumb as what KDE and Gnome are doing right now. They don't want to focus on the needs of the user. Instead, they want to write cool new stuff that nobody has done before, never mind if anyone wants it.
As much as people enjoy bemoaning a person's past for their mistakes, perhaps it's a good thing that this fellow made a mistake, and maybe has learned from it. This, rather than someone who has not made the mistake.
I really don't know anything about the guy, and let's face it; despite this article, neither do you.
PayPal operates like, and should be regulated like, a bank. The way they have treated their customers, like me, and many, many, many others, should be a warning to all; You can't afford to do business with PayPal. They will seize your money, and when they do, it will be months before you see a resolution. The horror stories are true: I know, I have mine.
While new battery technology is very important in our current time, the sheer number of duplicate stories and borderline advertisement/marketing stories on Slashdot about these new batteries, WITH a combines lithium FUD scare at the same time no less, sours these stories.
I can remember the days of VESA bus ATI cards. It seems like ATI has had driver issues forever. I don't know how things are right now, but even a year ago, just finding the right driver's on the ATI web pages is a serious task. They could really learn something from NVidia here.
I am using KDE4. It's horrible. I'm using my Mac and Windows PC more and more because I'm rejecting my Linux box.
If you want a single-app microcosm for what is KDE4, look at the Amarok music player v1 vs v2. Be noted that the KDE message board admins are deleting most criticism of Amarok v2 in any form, so getting a full idea of the suck is a little bit difficult without googling around. Version 1 was stable, had loads of features, and a very powerful interface. Version 2 started with a whole new code base, it is featureless, unstable, and I have to wonder if it was made for children or the elderly. It's a disaster.
By far the worst sign is that I've not seen anyone on the KDE development or design side say, "Hey, we hear that you're not happy, and we're re-thinking why we are doing what we are doing here." No, they just flat-out don't care at all. It's their right to not care, but it's very disappointing to those of us who use and depend upon this software.
I don't understand how fat people can not comprehend how they got fat. It was hard work! They had to eat a LOT of food, and food isn't cheap. They had to sit around on their ass a WHOLE lot, doing not much. How could they have forgotten all of that eating and doing a whole lot of not-much? Getting fat is an achievement! It's hard work and should be recognized as such. It takes determination and commitment. I can't even imagine eating that much food over a long period of time and then sitting still. It would be like torture. I just don't understand how fat people do it. I'll never be fat! I'm going to go for a walk now and eat some rice. Waaaaa!
I'd guess 90% of projects fail at step #1: Define your needs. What's the objective here? Why are we doing this, and what are the benchmarks required for success. Does this sound familiar?
First, define your needs, then evaluate possible solutions to what might meets your needs.
If you don't know what you need, you don't know what the hell you are doing. Hire someone who does, like a consultant.
Is there anyone who used the old Mozilla browser and mail suite who doesn't hate Firefox/Thunderbird? I don't understand how anyone can like the dumbed-down Firefux and Thunderturd apps.
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When it came to things like OSPF, BGP, routing, filtering (pf failover) and that sort of networking things, Linux hasn't been the best (though queuing and protocols have had some innovations and dev work).
Anyone have an opinion on this?
For example, Zebra was basically abandoned (it sucked anyway), which now became quagga -- if I wanted a Cisco, I'd get a Cisco. Stop trying to make it a damn emulator.
BGP? I don't even know if there is anything.
iptables is cool, but it just doesn't have failover like pf has (I want people with real-word experience, don't tell me "it's supported" when it's crap.)
While I it may be that their method of sale/distribution did not succeeded, the phone itself, and Android as an OS, is great. I've never owned a better phone.
There has been a lot of whining and griefing about the phone itself. I have no idea WTF all the complaints are about. I get great data and voice coverage (I hear TMobile isn't the best, but it satisfies me), and the only bug I've ever had is that the ringer sound will stop working about once a month -- I have to reboot.
You read that headline right. This should happen ALL THE TIME. It would be good for the markets.
Speculators would be driven out, or driven insane. Emotionally driven traders would have heart attacks.
Sound judgments made based on factual data would not be affected.
Next week, people like me won't give a toot that this ever happened. However, a lot of day traders just pooped their pants. I'm buying men's underwear stocks.
The person who made the mistake will be punished dearly.
Does anyone here remember when Yelp was first starting up? They used UCE/Spam to advertize themselves. My personal account got three or four duplicates across several of my aliases, which told me at the time that they had been using harvested addresses.
The fact that my manager throws a fit if I bring my laptop to meetings to take notes, because "he thinks it's rude". I guess he must think I'm surfing porn rather than looking up information about the subject being discussed, or taking action item notes.
Mod this guy to the front page. Stop the Microsoft vaporware news-ads that have been running lately. AFTER Microsoft has released the product, then you can call it news. Microsoft deserves the reputation that they built for themselves well over a decade: Vaporware, FUD, over-promise under-deliver.
What is to stop members of the public from setting up a distributed license-plate tracking system, to say, track politicians and government officials, and make said information public?
If you can't beat em, at least make it so they can't make any money doing it.
How about this...
I seem to remember that Linksys/Cisco SRW series switches REQUIRE MSIE v6 for management. Anyone else have more info on this? Yes, Cisco is still selling these today. This isn't an old product.
I have some "fake" Cisco WIC cards for the 2600 series here in a couple of routers. I'll tell you that they work just as well as regular Cisco WIC cards, and the systems you install them into can't tell the difference. These have been running reliably for years now.
Cisco is begging for a counterfeit market for their parts, because they mark up prices to insane levels.
True, it's the research, development, documentation, and support that makes their products great, but charging what they charge is just stupid.
Here's an example;
Intel 2-port 10Gig network card, $2500.00
http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=1352161
Same EXACT card but branded as Cisco costs over $14000.00
http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?edc=1424619
Yes, these are the same cards, my company has several of the large ASA firewalls that these go into, and the Intel cards. Sit them side by side and they are identical. At most, different firmware, but I doubt it. I've never actually tried since we can't be dorking around with production equipment.
Newer Cisco routers and switches are now using licensing for features and ports, so installing non-Cisco-extortion-priced parts won't really be an issue anyway. Reference the 3750-E/3560-E switches and those new 1900/2900/3900 series routers.
It's basically important to the Israelis that they don't appear to be a giant crosshair bomb drop spot for every single country they border, and then two and three countries away, that they don't commit horrible war crimes and acts against humanity while clutching the the victim story of yesterday (of which most victims are now dead and were victimized by completely unrelated people and countries), and that they might half a quarter-tiny-half chance of a viable economy (you know, if the United States wasn't giving the billions each year).
So, it's important to them, but no, nobody else really cares.
Given that their police would put three bullet holes in my Mac Book pro on my arrival to the air port, I think I'll never ever go there in my lifetime.
Uh, it's pretty clear to me that there is an overtone in this article that it's victim's fault that they are not well liked or have social problems.
While I accept that this may be true in some cases, and a contributing factor in many instances, it's shocking and abhorrent to me that someone might suggest that it's the victim's fault that they get physically assaulted, mentally abused, pressured to do drugs, etc.
The common attribute to bullying is bullies. They are the source of the problem (as often a single link in a chain of abuse) and it would be wise to focus on identifying, exposing, and properly reacting to their abusive behavior against others.
I don't want to attack the entire study based on my perception of this article, and I'll support that having poor social skills can contribute to the likelihood of being a bully victim, but WTF?
It's all BS. Forget all of the posts regarding FDA, documentation, testing, and that crap.
It's just a matter of how many units get sold, like microprocessors.
If you design, make, and sell one, it's $500 million. If you design one, make 500 million, and sell 500 million, they cost $1 each. Profit is the same either way.
Not a lot of people buy medical devices, with some exceptions.
Nintendo can't make them and start with high prices, then drop them later. They have to assume how many they will make, sell, and guess a good price before their first unit is sold.
And yes, I have worked in medical device manufacturing, and I currently work in non-profit cancer research. We have numerous genetic sequencers around, like ones from Illumina. They cost like $750K each, but it's really surprising how little materials is actually in them. A $500 laptop is technologically 10,000 times more advanced than one of those Illumina boxes.
It's true that medical devices are more expensive, and I'd be the first person crying foul about it, but they often really really do have good reasons to justify the higher costs... usually.
If you want to talk about price rape, look no further than Cisco.
$2000 card
http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=1352161
$13,0000 card
http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?edc=1424619
They are the SAME EXACT CARD, with a little tiny firmware tweak. We have a couple of these in the 5580 series firewalls.
Real-world TMobile customer here, with a MyTouch 3G.
I don't have any problem with 3G coverage in Phoenix AZ. Do I really expect to get 3G coverage outside of the city? No. I get EDGE and regular old GSM out on the road and in rural areas, and that's just fine.
More than anything, I would say that 3G and coverage complaints are an issue of expectation management. Customers expect wacky things, like their phones to work underground and behind four feet of concrete and metal, or to get 3G in Podunk Alaska.
Try Seamonkey 2.0 and compare it to Firefox 3.5 you will understand what I mean. The decision to cater to grandma and stupid users was about as dumb as what KDE and Gnome are doing right now. They don't want to focus on the needs of the user. Instead, they want to write cool new stuff that nobody has done before, never mind if anyone wants it.
See Being There, the movie.
As much as people enjoy bemoaning a person's past for their mistakes, perhaps it's a good thing that this fellow made a mistake, and maybe has learned from it. This, rather than someone who has not made the mistake.
I really don't know anything about the guy, and let's face it; despite this article, neither do you.
I have two bottles of ginkgo products on my desk right now, which I bought from a store.
One has 400mg of gotu kola, which has nothing do to with ginkgo, and also 60mg of ginkgo biloba dried extract.
The other has 120mg of ginko biloba.
Both have, per bottle instructions, one pill per day usage.
So, the study did exactly what it should, and used "recommended" daily values of the product, which apparently failed to produce a positive result.
Whoever figured out that 120mg of ginkgo was "enough", who knows?
Seems like you are trying to find a reason to disregard the results of the study to meet your pre-determined opinion.
It is notable that the person who reportedly subdued the suspect individual was NOT an American. He was Dutch.
PayPal operates like, and should be regulated like, a bank. The way they have treated their customers, like me, and many, many, many others, should be a warning to all; You can't afford to do business with PayPal. They will seize your money, and when they do, it will be months before you see a resolution. The horror stories are true: I know, I have mine.
While new battery technology is very important in our current time, the sheer number of duplicate stories and borderline advertisement/marketing stories on Slashdot about these new batteries, WITH a combines lithium FUD scare at the same time no less, sours these stories.
I can remember the days of VESA bus ATI cards. It seems like ATI has had driver issues forever. I don't know how things are right now, but even a year ago, just finding the right driver's on the ATI web pages is a serious task. They could really learn something from NVidia here.
poster didn't RTFA, mod down.
I am using KDE4. It's horrible. I'm using my Mac and Windows PC more and more because I'm rejecting my Linux box.
If you want a single-app microcosm for what is KDE4, look at the Amarok music player v1 vs v2. Be noted that the KDE message board admins are deleting most criticism of Amarok v2 in any form, so getting a full idea of the suck is a little bit difficult without googling around. Version 1 was stable, had loads of features, and a very powerful interface. Version 2 started with a whole new code base, it is featureless, unstable, and I have to wonder if it was made for children or the elderly. It's a disaster.
By far the worst sign is that I've not seen anyone on the KDE development or design side say, "Hey, we hear that you're not happy, and we're re-thinking why we are doing what we are doing here." No, they just flat-out don't care at all. It's their right to not care, but it's very disappointing to those of us who use and depend upon this software.
I don't understand how fat people can not comprehend how they got fat. It was hard work! They had to eat a LOT of food, and food isn't cheap. They had to sit around on their ass a WHOLE lot, doing not much. How could they have forgotten all of that eating and doing a whole lot of not-much? Getting fat is an achievement! It's hard work and should be recognized as such. It takes determination and commitment. I can't even imagine eating that much food over a long period of time and then sitting still. It would be like torture. I just don't understand how fat people do it. I'll never be fat! I'm going to go for a walk now and eat some rice. Waaaaa!
I'd guess 90% of projects fail at step #1: Define your needs. What's the objective here? Why are we doing this, and what are the benchmarks required for success. Does this sound familiar?
First, define your needs, then evaluate possible solutions to what might meets your needs.
If you don't know what you need, you don't know what the hell you are doing. Hire someone who does, like a consultant.
Is there anyone who used the old Mozilla browser and mail suite who doesn't hate Firefox/Thunderbird? I don't understand how anyone can like the dumbed-down Firefux and Thunderturd apps.