Well if it is so, it will go into Chapter 7 or 11. At that point if there is any interest to understand who this party is IBM can buy the relevant assets.
Chapter 11 means possible emerging out of bankrupcy as well as possibility for interested creditors to purchase liabilities (including rights to ongoing litigations). It is not the chapter used for winding down a business. The correct chapter should be 7. Liquidation. Game over.
Sensor is usually on the board so if you have empty space under the drive or the drive is mounted sideways you will not see a significant difference after putting rubber mounts. At the same time the drive chassis will get considerably hotter. This is the reason why most "Quiet" mounts also come with a thermal sensitive label.
It has already been done. 95% of the so called "OEM discount software" sold by SPAM gangs is pre-seeded with SPAM bots which the gangs use to sell more software, drugs and run more scams.
One thing you need to remember about Sun - it will tale a solar eclipse for them to accept that a solution is technically superior and not try to stab it in the back later. They also do not understand the idea that exchanging patent and IP warning shots across the bow is business as usual for a large company and take a number of past incidents personally.
Good example for the technical side is NIS vs DNS. Java as of 1.4.2 still did not have any resolver functions in the standard libraries (possibly the only language to do so). Sun did not forget that they got shoved to the side with NIS by everyone at one point and has been trying to "pay back". The fact that they have decreased the chances for java acceptance as a result did not matter even a bit. This is just one example out of a very long list and IBM java efforts are definitely a part of it.
I have listened to several high level Sun presentations at various Unix events and they still consider IBM to be "The Enemy" because of that patent lawsuit from around 20 years ago. They still want to pay back. Once again, examples are numerous.
Even these Sun rooms are moving to RedHat and Dell now. Look at the job boards and search for "bank linux migration". The number of hits is staggering (at least in EU).
It is not presently useful to install CCTV at all major intersections
You are definitely not in the "Land of Big Brother" mate. Here major intersections without CCTV are an exemption, not the rule. Even most motorways are fully covered.
Where did this come from? TCP/IP on Windows NT (starting in 92 at least) was a core part of the OS. I specifically remember that TCP/IP for Win 3.x was free. WTF are you talking about?
Win 3.10 and initially 3.11 did not include TCP/IP, it was an add on with a separate license. Initial pricing for TCP/IP was something in the 100-200 $ per seat range (I even a price list somewhere in my archives). It became free sometimes through the lifetime of 3.11 due to marketing pressure from OS2 Warp which had it included day one.
cc:Mail and Netware-based products. You are right on these as far as larger coprorates are concerned. You are wrong as far as SMBs are concerned. They were Pegasus and Eudora territory and this is what Windows took over before going after the larger fish which had solutions in place.
Ignoring Wireless?. It is also once again several years after the tehcnology went mainstream. 802.11 came out way before XP. MSFT once again ignore it for a while.
One thing you have to admit, MSFT is both good at playing catchup and has enough resources to play catchup after it has missed the boat. There are plenty of examples:
1. MSFT ignoring TCP IP, saying it is inferior to NetBIOS as well as charging a small fortune for a minimal add-on IP Stack ported from BSD. That was only 10 years ago. They caught up on this one
2. Same with browsers - IE 3.0 was nothing but mosaic repackaged. It took them less then 2 years to catch up.
3. Mail clients - I still remember the days when Pegasus and Eudora were the de-facto corporate standards as far as Email on windows is concerned. 3 years to get from 0% market share to 90%+ market share.
4. Microsoft ignoring wireless, thin clients, etc.
In every one of these cases they caught up before the rest of the market could do anything about them.
1. Speed cameras are regulated almost everyhwere and some police departments are not even allowed to use them. At the same time red light jump cameras are not subject to most of these regulations. In fact you can put this red-light + radar combination in a number of places where you are not legally allowed to put a speed camera in most countries (visibility and location restrictions). The police depts will love it and use it.
2. For red light jumping you are allowed almost everywhere to use standard CCTV and the burden of proof is seriously decreased.
IIRC, Cisco has used GCC since 1998 or even earlier at least for some platforms. Do some strings on an uncompressed IOS copy starting from around 11.2 for MIPS based ones and 11.3 for the motorola based ones. So in fact, you can audit the compilers. Not the entire tool chain, because linker, bootstrap, etc are obviously proprietary, but compiler at least for some IOS versions I have looked at was GCC.
That is CSR, not IOS. The only OSS component they confess to in IOS is regexp. I have not had access to IOS code, but how to say it... I find the similarity of strings and bug for bug compatibility in IOS and some OSS products to be more then highly amusing...
Seconded, Done it several thousand times over everything but carrier pigeons.
WAN, LAN, console, tftp, xmodem, over cellular - you name it.
I am not a Ciso fan (in fact I am seriously allergic to it), but I have to admit that their gear can be fixed and upgraded in almost all cases because they are one of the very few vendors which provide full upgrade/download capabilities in both their runtime and their bootstrap. So even after managing to completely bugger up a normal upgrade you still have very good chance of succeding through the loader commands.
I see a great many people buying hardware from Cisco's competitors in the near-future. Like right now.
I do not.
IMO, you definitely do not understand how Cisco marketing functions. It took me 5+ years of dealing with it to start understanding it. Basically, every single IOS release they shipped is bug ridden beyond any reasonable limits. Any other company shipping such crap would have failed long ago. They did not. The reason is that they have created cottage industries of "certified specialists" all over the world which will make sure that their customers and employers will never buy anything but Cisco and never hire an unfettered one. Just have a look how many banks run "Cisco Only Networks". The reason for this is simple. They are employed because there is always something wrong and there is always something to fix. Cisco knows this and it will never ever kill what makes 90% of its enterprise sales.
This is also the reason why even Cisco supplied GUI or centralised management solutions never manage some features. This is also the reason why there is no way in hell for you to get anywhere trying to manage Cisco gear using industry standard protocols. Ever tried to do some alteration of IP parameteres on Cisco via SNMP? I am not even talking about rocket science like the diff-serv MIB or the BGP MIB. Ever tried to hook it a proper element manager without few Ms of glue code that does direct CLI? Dream on...
They continuously use codebase from the opensource parts of the software world and lie about it. The only OSS component they currently admit to is the regexp library. In fact they have used code from xntpd (and were bug for bug vulnerable to NTP exploits), OpenSSL, OpenSSH, so on so forth, ad naseum. When a vulnerability in any of these comes around they never admit it because the IOS sacred cow is supposedly pure and not infected by any opensource (besides regexp). This continues until someone starts running the exploits versus their gear. And after that... BANG... Check BUGTRAQ for the SSH and NTP exploits as a fine example. I bet there are others as well.
They constantly have idiotic ideas like CDP which are insecure by design and turned on by default.
They have promoted a very long list of outright lies including security ones in the exam preparation materials and exam question. That is also besides the fact that Cisco does not consider the analysis for correctness and sane security practice of these materials to be fair use and disallows quoting them. Here is one that has managed to get through: http://lists.netsys.com/pipermail/full-d isclosure/ 2003-October/012809.html
There are many others.
So on so forth. Ad naseum. If you think that Microsoft is vile you definitely have not had to do a lot of network engineering especially with Cisco kit...
After all we all remember what used to happen when someone typed into google "More Evil then the devil himself". In btw, it has changed lately... Apparently chads in Florida can do miracles...
I have dived without scuba gear (mask, snorkel and a jumbo flippers only) to 12m (36 ft). Do not remember anything like that. The only problem I remember is that you have to to level ear pressure about 6-9 times and have to exhale into the mask because it gets compressed onto your face.
I have not used OpenBSD as I have had enough of it around 3.0 and have moved to Free for other BSD based tasks so I cannot comment on the "industrial strength" of their BGP implementation. What I would comment on is that you get what you deserve:
1. 99% of the stuff related to various seamless failover methods versus a stupid server box are patented.
2. 99% of designs I have seen based on HSRP, VRRP, phase of the moon, moode of the designer's wife, etc have multiple single points of failure.
They are the wrong idea. They presume the server to be stupid. All it takes to achieve the same result is to make the server speak a suitable IGP. OSPF. Or even RIP in some cases.
Black see under 200 m (measured 20 years ago, now the border is shallower due to pollution) has 0% oxygen and more then 0.5 H2S. It is not just as anaerobic as water environment ca get. It is also a strong acidic redox enironment. As are result you should not equate Black Sea with any other sea or water reservoir.
Actually there are some problem with this article:
Many countries did massive treefelling and clearing to avoid wastage before building reservoirs. Bulgaria definitely did so for the Arda Cascade (aka the biggest weapon of mass destruction in the world), Russia did it for some of their reservoirs. Italy did it as well. I would expect other countries to have done it too.
After being submerged for more then several years wood does not float. So after you cut the tree it will happily fall on the bottom.
IMHO, it must have been limited on processor power and hardware more than the software.
Nope. The difference between a 30MHz Arm used 12 years ago and a 75Mhz Arm used today is nearly nothing. Software is and will be the limiting factor. And it is not just software - it is the OS.
At the time general purpose OSes that do power management did not exist. The reason we see devices now is the appearance of general purpose OSes which:
Have power management and can make the portable really work
Have a well known API which makes "industry standard programming" (one of my favourite swearwords) very easy.
If these were developed 10 years ago we would have had portables at the time and market pressure would have dropped their prices to nearly nothing by now. At the same time the PC would have remained an expensive developer only specialized system.
I am not sure what is better though, because this development would have meant that the hobbyist programmer would have become extinct by around 2000. Actually, from this perspective MSFT is definitely regretting the Go adventure. If they would have not been so shortsighted they would not have had to fund one three letter company now.
And my point is that I will think 10 times before hiring an ex-SCO employee. So will 95%+ of the market and they will be quite likely to chose a non-SCO alternative even if less qualified.
Leaving the actual SCO case aside it is a standard practice to not hire people working for companies involved in an ongoing intellectual property litigation.
So anyone trying to jump ship from SCO will have to overcome the stigma of carrying bomb in their pocket.
Even if they desperately want to jump ship they are not likely to be able to do it at the moment.
Simple - because they are being payed. You have to get money from somewhere to pay the food for the kids and the mortgage.
Personally, I would not get my hands dirty with such a job, but many people have landed in it and carry its stigma now so they cannot find another one in the industry even if they want.
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Well if it is so, it will go into Chapter 7 or 11. At that point if there is any interest to understand who this party is IBM can buy the relevant assets.
Chapter 11 means possible emerging out of bankrupcy as well as possibility for interested creditors to purchase liabilities (including rights to ongoing litigations). It is not the chapter used for winding down a business. The correct chapter should be 7. Liquidation. Game over.
Sensor is usually on the board so if you have empty space under the drive or the drive is mounted sideways you will not see a significant difference after putting rubber mounts. At the same time the drive chassis will get considerably hotter. This is the reason why most "Quiet" mounts also come with a thermal sensitive label.
There are no terrorists in Iraq. Not entirely correct. There was ONE retired one. Abbas of Akile Lauro's fame. That is 1 (ONE) terrorist.
20%
Assuming its orbit is in the ecliptic plane. This is not a good assumption from Neptun onwards.
It has already been done. 95% of the so called "OEM discount software" sold by SPAM gangs is pre-seeded with SPAM bots which the gangs use to sell more software, drugs and run more scams.
No they will not.
One thing you need to remember about Sun - it will tale a solar eclipse for them to accept that a solution is technically superior and not try to stab it in the back later. They also do not understand the idea that exchanging patent and IP warning shots across the bow is business as usual for a large company and take a number of past incidents personally.
Good example for the technical side is NIS vs DNS. Java as of 1.4.2 still did not have any resolver functions in the standard libraries (possibly the only language to do so). Sun did not forget that they got shoved to the side with NIS by everyone at one point and has been trying to "pay back". The fact that they have decreased the chances for java acceptance as a result did not matter even a bit. This is just one example out of a very long list and IBM java efforts are definitely a part of it.
I have listened to several high level Sun presentations at various Unix events and they still consider IBM to be "The Enemy" because of that patent lawsuit from around 20 years ago. They still want to pay back. Once again, examples are numerous.
So, not a fat chance.
Even these Sun rooms are moving to RedHat and Dell now. Look at the job boards and search for "bank linux migration". The number of hits is staggering (at least in EU).
You are definitely not in the "Land of Big Brother" mate. Here major intersections without CCTV are an exemption, not the rule. Even most motorways are fully covered.
Win 3.10 and initially 3.11 did not include TCP/IP, it was an add on with a separate license. Initial pricing for TCP/IP was something in the 100-200 $ per seat range (I even a price list somewhere in my archives). It became free sometimes through the lifetime of 3.11 due to marketing pressure from OS2 Warp which had it included day one.
cc:Mail and Netware-based products. You are right on these as far as larger coprorates are concerned. You are wrong as far as SMBs are concerned. They were Pegasus and Eudora territory and this is what Windows took over before going after the larger fish which had solutions in place.
Ignoring Wireless?. It is also once again several years after the tehcnology went mainstream. 802.11 came out way before XP. MSFT once again ignore it for a while.
One thing you have to admit, MSFT is both good at playing catchup and has enough resources to play catchup after it has missed the boat. There are plenty of examples:
1. MSFT ignoring TCP IP, saying it is inferior to NetBIOS as well as charging a small fortune for a minimal add-on IP Stack ported from BSD. That was only 10 years ago. They caught up on this one
2. Same with browsers - IE 3.0 was nothing but mosaic repackaged. It took them less then 2 years to catch up.
3. Mail clients - I still remember the days when Pegasus and Eudora were the de-facto corporate standards as far as Email on windows is concerned. 3 years to get from 0% market share to 90%+ market share.
4. Microsoft ignoring wireless, thin clients, etc.
In every one of these cases they caught up before the rest of the market could do anything about them.
Err... I beg to differ.
1. Speed cameras are regulated almost everyhwere and some police departments are not even allowed to use them. At the same time red light jump cameras are not subject to most of these regulations. In fact you can put this red-light + radar combination in a number of places where you are not legally allowed to put a speed camera in most countries (visibility and location restrictions). The police depts will love it and use it.
2. For red light jumping you are allowed almost everywhere to use standard CCTV and the burden of proof is seriously decreased.
IIRC, Cisco has used GCC since 1998 or even earlier at least for some platforms. Do some strings on an uncompressed IOS copy starting from around 11.2 for MIPS based ones and 11.3 for the motorola based ones. So in fact, you can audit the compilers. Not the entire tool chain, because linker, bootstrap, etc are obviously proprietary, but compiler at least for some IOS versions I have looked at was GCC.
That is CSR, not IOS. The only OSS component they confess to in IOS is regexp. I have not had access to IOS code, but how to say it... I find the similarity of strings and bug for bug compatibility in IOS and some OSS products to be more then highly amusing...
Seconded, Done it several thousand times over everything but carrier pigeons.
WAN, LAN, console, tftp, xmodem, over cellular - you name it.
I am not a Ciso fan (in fact I am seriously allergic to it), but I have to admit that their gear can be fixed and upgraded in almost all cases because they are one of the very few vendors which provide full upgrade/download capabilities in both their runtime and their bootstrap. So even after managing to completely bugger up a normal upgrade you still have very good chance of succeding through the loader commands.
I do not.
IMO, you definitely do not understand how Cisco marketing functions. It took me 5+ years of dealing with it to start understanding it. Basically, every single IOS release they shipped is bug ridden beyond any reasonable limits. Any other company shipping such crap would have failed long ago. They did not. The reason is that they have created cottage industries of "certified specialists" all over the world which will make sure that their customers and employers will never buy anything but Cisco and never hire an unfettered one. Just have a look how many banks run "Cisco Only Networks". The reason for this is simple. They are employed because there is always something wrong and there is always something to fix. Cisco knows this and it will never ever kill what makes 90% of its enterprise sales.
This is also the reason why even Cisco supplied GUI or centralised management solutions never manage some features. This is also the reason why there is no way in hell for you to get anywhere trying to manage Cisco gear using industry standard protocols. Ever tried to do some alteration of IP parameteres on Cisco via SNMP? I am not even talking about rocket science like the diff-serv MIB or the BGP MIB. Ever tried to hook it a proper element manager without few Ms of glue code that does direct CLI? Dream on...
Really?
... BANG... Check BUGTRAQ for the SSH and NTP exploits as a fine example. I bet there are others as well.
d isclosure/ 2003-October/012809.html
They continuously use codebase from the opensource parts of the software world and lie about it. The only OSS component they currently admit to is the regexp library. In fact they have used code from xntpd (and were bug for bug vulnerable to NTP exploits), OpenSSL, OpenSSH, so on so forth, ad naseum. When a vulnerability in any of these comes around they never admit it because the IOS sacred cow is supposedly pure and not infected by any opensource (besides regexp). This continues until someone starts running the exploits versus their gear. And after that
They constantly have idiotic ideas like CDP which are insecure by design and turned on by default.
They have promoted a very long list of outright lies including security ones in the exam preparation materials and exam question. That is also besides the fact that Cisco does not consider the analysis for correctness and sane security practice of these materials to be fair use and disallows quoting them. Here is one that has managed to get through:
http://lists.netsys.com/pipermail/full-
There are many others.
So on so forth. Ad naseum. If you think that Microsoft is vile you definitely have not had to do a lot of network engineering especially with Cisco kit...
Amusing - maybe. Relevant - definitely.
After all we all remember what used to happen when someone typed into google "More Evil then the devil himself". In btw, it has changed lately... Apparently chads in Florida can do miracles...
I have dived without scuba gear (mask, snorkel and a jumbo flippers only) to 12m (36 ft). Do not remember anything like that. The only problem I remember is that you have to to level ear pressure about 6-9 times and have to exhale into the mask because it gets compressed onto your face.
IT does not. As most of the Navy it is a Windoze system. Have a look at the screenshots. One of them has a CMD prompt.
I have not used OpenBSD as I have had enough of it around 3.0 and have moved to Free for other BSD based tasks so I cannot comment on the "industrial strength" of their BGP implementation. What I would comment on is that you get what you deserve:
1. 99% of the stuff related to various seamless failover methods versus a stupid server box are patented.
2. 99% of designs I have seen based on HSRP, VRRP, phase of the moon, moode of the designer's wife, etc have multiple single points of failure.
They are the wrong idea. They presume the server to be stupid. All it takes to achieve the same result is to make the server speak a suitable IGP. OSPF. Or even RIP in some cases.
Black see under 200 m (measured 20 years ago, now the border is shallower due to pollution) has 0% oxygen and more then 0.5 H2S. It is not just as anaerobic as water environment ca get. It is also a strong acidic redox enironment. As are result you should not equate Black Sea with any other sea or water reservoir.
Actually there are some problem with this article:
Many countries did massive treefelling and clearing to avoid wastage before building reservoirs. Bulgaria definitely did so for the Arda Cascade (aka the biggest weapon of mass destruction in the world), Russia did it for some of their reservoirs. Italy did it as well. I would expect other countries to have done it too.
After being submerged for more then several years wood does not float. So after you cut the tree it will happily fall on the bottom.
Nope. The difference between a 30MHz Arm used 12 years ago and a 75Mhz Arm used today is nearly nothing. Software is and will be the limiting factor. And it is not just software - it is the OS.
At the time general purpose OSes that do power management did not exist. The reason we see devices now is the appearance of general purpose OSes which:
Have power management and can make the portable really work
Have a well known API which makes "industry standard programming" (one of my favourite swearwords) very easy.
If these were developed 10 years ago we would have had portables at the time and market pressure would have dropped their prices to nearly nothing by now. At the same time the PC would have remained an expensive developer only specialized system.
I am not sure what is better though, because this development would have meant that the hobbyist programmer would have become extinct by around 2000. Actually, from this perspective MSFT is definitely regretting the Go adventure. If they would have not been so shortsighted they would not have had to fund one three letter company now.
And my point is that I will think 10 times before hiring an ex-SCO employee. So will 95%+ of the market and they will be quite likely to chose a non-SCO alternative even if less qualified.
Leaving the actual SCO case aside it is a standard practice to not hire people working for companies involved in an ongoing intellectual property litigation.
So anyone trying to jump ship from SCO will have to overcome the stigma of carrying bomb in their pocket.
Even if they desperately want to jump ship they are not likely to be able to do it at the moment.
Simple - because they are being payed. You have to get money from somewhere to pay the food for the kids and the mortgage.
Personally, I would not get my hands dirty with such a job, but many people have landed in it and carry its stigma now so they cannot find another one in the industry even if they want.