One word: depreciation.
It's a well known fact that pencil pushers can force company employees to retain hardware for years past its useful life cycle just to depreciate what's "on loan". I've been trying to get rid of some sparc 5's (they're spoken for) and 486's for two years now.
They weren't attacked via whois--those are all of the registered hosts on internic (rs.internic.net -- if you don't have a command-line tool just telnet to whois.internic.net port 43) that have microsoft.com in the beginning of their hostname. Most of them resolve, and some even go to real websites.
How do you MAKE your students stop trusting floppies?
Get rid of all the floppy drives.
How much does a floppy cost nowadays? Enough that most companies don't even distribute software on floppy anymore (not to mention that the latest copy of Windows would span 300+ floppies--I haven't looked). Floppies are certainly more expensive than CD-R's, which cost $0.20 a piece when bought in blocks of 50 or 100.
But even cheaper than CD-R's is the 10/100BaseT network card. $15.00 ($30.00 for PCMCIA) ensures that no matter where you are or what you use for a computing platform you can always tie into your files somewhere.
I wonder why more Universities don't require that their students purchase a laptop to attend?
Ok, today I've encountered the PS2 acronym for the keyboard/mouse controller, the IBM PC brand, and now the Sony Playstation product. I'm not one to gripe about alphabet soup, but could you guys standardize on a separate acronym, please? I thought PSX2 was rather nice.
If you ask me it's better that they did stop handing out all the information for each domain. Half the time you'd look up a record from their database and their servers would throw back error messages saying they were too busy. At $50 per year their hangups weren't acceptable anyway.
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TCP/IP illustrated, Volume 1, by Rich Stevens.
One word: depreciation. It's a well known fact that pencil pushers can force company employees to retain hardware for years past its useful life cycle just to depreciate what's "on loan". I've been trying to get rid of some sparc 5's (they're spoken for) and 486's for two years now.
They weren't attacked via whois--those are all of the registered hosts on internic (rs.internic.net -- if you don't have a command-line tool just telnet to whois.internic.net port 43) that have microsoft.com in the beginning of their hostname. Most of them resolve, and some even go to real websites.
How do you MAKE your students stop trusting floppies? Get rid of all the floppy drives. How much does a floppy cost nowadays? Enough that most companies don't even distribute software on floppy anymore (not to mention that the latest copy of Windows would span 300+ floppies--I haven't looked). Floppies are certainly more expensive than CD-R's, which cost $0.20 a piece when bought in blocks of 50 or 100. But even cheaper than CD-R's is the 10/100BaseT network card. $15.00 ($30.00 for PCMCIA) ensures that no matter where you are or what you use for a computing platform you can always tie into your files somewhere. I wonder why more Universities don't require that their students purchase a laptop to attend?
Ok, today I've encountered the PS2 acronym for the keyboard/mouse controller, the IBM PC brand, and now the Sony Playstation product. I'm not one to gripe about alphabet soup, but could you guys standardize on a separate acronym, please? I thought PSX2 was rather nice.
Just convert it to text. strings word.doc | fmt -75 | more. Hunt for english (or whatever your language) text.
Nah, you just get 16 different IP's from 16 different ISP's and run eBGP between all the links! That way you're never down!
One Word: Sendmail.
If you ask me it's better that they did stop handing out all the information for each domain. Half the time you'd look up a record from their database and their servers would throw back error messages saying they were too busy. At $50 per year their hangups weren't acceptable anyway.