I am quite sure they used something like that - but branch codes internally were 3 characters, encoded into a ton of different systems and database schema - and after reaching 999 they decided instead of changing all the systems to allow for longer codes to go with alphanumeric, as (I suppose) they were already using strings to store them in most places, but of limited fixed length.
(I know how "afraid" our own IT @work is about some database schema changes, that would involve huge table copies taking days and dangers of replication trees breaking)
Having a seperate energy company selling to end users can make sense.
Imagine you have 2MW power generation capacity, and you need 2MW for your own (in this case datacenter) usage, and you have the brand to attract end customers.
You could use your own power - but why, when instead you could sell 2MW "green" energy at the higher market rate to end users, and buy 2 MW "dirty power" at the lower wholesale rate, and keep the price difference.
It is not "the company" sending you emails, it is people.
Most of the time (at least for me) work-emails are not from my boss (or his boss), but from colleagues more or less on the same level as me, even if from other departments/countries - how would that work there?
Some of our departments work shifts (mine doesn't), and naturally I receive emails every time of the day - but luckily noone expects me to answer 24/7 - even if I glance at the mails on my phone at home I rarely answer before I'm back in the office.
And I can also see the "hey nice person next desk, you'll mail me, and I'll mail you" deals;)
The trucking corporations can save a lot of money if they wouldn't need to stop every few hours because the driver has to pause or sleep. Even if someone is still on board to drive the small streets and for loading, he would be able to rest while the truck goes down the interstate, and be fresh when he is really needed again.
Could even work for the bigger corps to have a pool of people waiting at a reststop, take over an arriving truck, drive it into the neighbourhood, unload, reload, drive back to the nearest reststop and send it on its way to the next city - and directly afterwards take over the next arriving.
Right now testing and developing the details is just way easier with smaller personal cars than big 40t machines.
These long expire times are worse for a company than things happening every year!
When you leave, the next guy retains perhaps 80% of your knowledge about this, the guy after him still has maybe 50% of your info, with less and less stuff still known after each new person or reorg.
If the renewal is supposed to happen in 10 years - how many people will have it on their radar THEN?
"But it always just worked, we never had to do anything"
Tried it at work - stopped loads of spam, but had to disable it because out there are too many broken smtp servers (on short inspection mostly lotus notes) that think an return code of 4xx is a permanent error and bounce the mail.
And my boss is not happy when even ONE important mail from a client is not reaching him.
Think about the problems you had leaving the lists.
Now think about all the problems you will get when every provider/mailserver uses its own ip-filtering. I know for myself that I dropped lots of Spammer-IPs/Ranges into my firewall, which were not caught by blacklists or other checks at that time. And most are still there, even if some of them are more than two years old, and most likely not spam-ips anymore - but why check and care, they don't disrupt any mails at the moment.
The ISA card is only a simple one-slot PCMCIA-controller for a desktop pc, controllable with the standard linux pcmcia-tools.
The cards for the desktop-version are the same pcmcia-cards as for laptops, and for them exists even two differnent drivers:
one from lucent direct, but it's not full source (contains a binary-only library): ftp://hyper.stanford.edu/pub/pcmcia/contrib/wave lan2_cs-3.10.tar.gz (neuer version is available somewhere on ftp.wavelan.com, but I don't want to search now)
and a second-one (full source) from some third-party-programmers (based on an alpha-version from lucent and extended): http://www.fasta.fh-dortmund.de/users/andy/wvlan /
The cards even work with linux in peer-to-peer mode, so that you don't need an access-point to connect 2-3 machines.
Take a look at: http://www.fasta.fh-dortmund.de/users/andy/wvlan (complete source) ftp://ftp.wavelan.com/pub/SOFTWARE/IEEE/PC_CARD/ LINUX/ (mostly source, but contains binary-only library)
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I am quite sure they used something like that - but branch codes internally were 3 characters, encoded into a ton of different systems and database schema - and after reaching 999 they decided instead of changing all the systems to allow for longer codes to go with alphanumeric, as (I suppose) they were already using strings to store them in most places, but of limited fixed length.
(I know how "afraid" our own IT @work is about some database schema changes, that would involve huge table copies taking days and dangers of replication trees breaking)
Having a seperate energy company selling to end users can make sense.
Imagine you have 2MW power generation capacity, and you need 2MW for your own (in this case datacenter) usage, and you have the brand to attract end customers.
You could use your own power - but why, when instead you could sell 2MW "green" energy at the higher market rate to end users, and buy 2 MW "dirty power" at the lower wholesale rate, and keep the price difference.
It is not "the company" sending you emails, it is people.
Most of the time (at least for me) work-emails are not from my boss (or his boss), but from colleagues more or less on the same level as me, even if from other departments/countries - how would that work there?
Some of our departments work shifts (mine doesn't), and naturally I receive emails every time of the day - but luckily noone expects me to answer 24/7 - even if I glance at the mails on my phone at home I rarely answer before I'm back in the office.
And I can also see the "hey nice person next desk, you'll mail me, and I'll mail you" deals ;)
And not to forget: Trucks!
The trucking corporations can save a lot of money if they wouldn't need to stop every few hours because the driver has to pause or sleep. Even if someone is still on board to drive the small streets and for loading, he would be able to rest while the truck goes down the interstate, and be fresh when he is really needed again.
Could even work for the bigger corps to have a pool of people waiting at a reststop, take over an arriving truck, drive it into the neighbourhood, unload, reload, drive back to the nearest reststop and send it on its way to the next city - and directly afterwards take over the next arriving.
Right now testing and developing the details is just way easier with smaller personal cars than big 40t machines.
These long expire times are worse for a company than things happening every year!
When you leave, the next guy retains perhaps 80% of your knowledge about this, the guy after him still has maybe 50% of your info, with less and less stuff still known after each new person or reorg.
If the renewal is supposed to happen in 10 years - how many people will have it on their radar THEN?
"But it always just worked, we never had to do anything"
The biggest problem with GPS is that it does not work inside a building.
With dense enough Wifi AP mapping you are able to still at least point to the right house/street.
Tried it at work - stopped loads of spam, but had to disable it because out there are too many broken smtp servers (on short inspection mostly lotus notes) that think an return code of 4xx is a permanent error and bounce the mail.
And my boss is not happy when even ONE important mail from a client is not reaching him.
Think about the problems you had leaving the lists.
Now think about all the problems you will get when every provider/mailserver uses its own ip-filtering. I know for myself that I dropped lots of Spammer-IPs/Ranges into my firewall, which were not caught by blacklists or other checks at that time. And most are still there, even if some of them are more than two years old, and most likely not spam-ips anymore - but why check and care, they don't disrupt any mails at the moment.
Altavista even tried it this way.
You can't get much shorter than http://av.com/
But it doesn't help when the "product" is no longer good.
And they put the iso-images of their release-canditate for 7.1/axp online - something
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they don't do for x86
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/7.1-beta/iso.rc
These limits are still in 2.2 kernels, but there are patches which remove it.
I know for sure current suse's ship with it, and probably redhat does the same.
The ISA card is only a simple one-slot PCMCIA-controller for a desktop pc, controllable with the standard linux pcmcia-tools.
e lan2_cs-3.10.tar.gz
n /
The cards for the desktop-version are the same pcmcia-cards as for laptops, and for them exists even two differnent drivers:
one from lucent direct, but it's not full source (contains a binary-only library):
ftp://hyper.stanford.edu/pub/pcmcia/contrib/wav
(neuer version is available somewhere on ftp.wavelan.com, but I don't want to search now)
and a second-one (full source) from some third-party-programmers (based on an alpha-version from lucent and extended):
http://www.fasta.fh-dortmund.de/users/andy/wvla
The cards even work with linux in peer-to-peer mode, so that you don't need an access-point to connect 2-3 machines.
c'ya
sven
Linux Drivers are available for Lucent Wavelan!
n / LINUX/
Take a look at:
http://www.fasta.fh-dortmund.de/users/andy/wvla
(complete source)
ftp://ftp.wavelan.com/pub/SOFTWARE/IEEE/PC_CARD
(mostly source, but contains binary-only library)