Many years ago, I worked for Ohio Bell in Columbus, OH (the capital of Ohio). At the time, Caller ID was just becoming available. The local newspaper had caller ID installed on their phone.
One day the Governor of the State of Ohio, called a reporter at the newspaper to discuss an article, and the governor's direct dial number showed up on hte newspaper reporter's caller ID. The newspaper reporter told the governor what his direct dial number was, and the governor flipped out.
Now, there was as of yet no provision for blocking sending out your caller ID info on the switches we were using. We had to temporarily turn off all caller ID until we could patch the switch to allow blocking of caller ID info.
Actually the reason that I followed them, and the reason I'm an expert on them, is because I designed them. I worked on the I/O subsystem and probably know more about the machines then you. The last machine I worked on (before heading to grad school) was the 9021 10 way systems.
And IBM mainframe systems are not backward since 1985. The machines can run software written for the S/360 architecture (introduced in 1965) using interpreted execution (via the SIE opcode). Only software written for the S/390 architecture (introduced Sept. 1990) can run natively on current machines.
Among the things that changed with this architecture are the I/O subsystem and the memory addressing scheme. These subsystems are very different and code would require a recompile at the very least, unless you wanted to run interpreted.
I doubt that they are running a custom OS, probably MVS/ESA TSO (or zOS as it is now being called) or VM/ESA CMS. Neither of which is as old as you claim. As for the non OS software, the custom software may have been written in 1985, but don't blame the hardware for that.
I've probably forgetten more about computers, and these machines then you'll ever know about them troll. Have a nice life, oh, but first you would have to get one.
University Information Management Systems uses an IBM Multiprise 3000 model 7060-H50(S/390) processor to support host-based administrative information systems. The H50 system's suite of operating system software is based on IBM's z/OS.
Well, since the S/390 architecture is only 12 years old, I find it very difficult to believe that the system is 18 years old. I haven't really kept up with the IBM S/390 products since the mid 90's, but at that time there wasn't a model 7060, so I have to conclude that the 7060 is no more than 7 years old, max.
Claiming that your system is 18 years old is like claiming that your Pentium IV system is 25 years old, because it's just an enhanced 8080.
Except, what happend when you need to do a complete restore?
You might try to counter this by saying, how often do you need to do a complete restore? Well, we are talking about offsite backup. Usually when you have to go to offsite backup to restore something it is because you had some sort of catastropic failure and need to completely restore your environment.
If someone gives you a contract in.001 font size, no it is not illegal. It is up to you to say "I won't sign this, and I won't use your product."
Let's take this arguement to the extreme. What if you and another party are entering into a contract, and you review the contract and everything seems reasonable so you sign this contract.
The other party then asks you to give them all of your money, as that was part of the contract. You dispute this, claiming that the contract says no such thing. They then pull out a microscope and show you that one of the periods in the contract contained a clause that required you to give all your money to the other party.
Is this contract valid?
No, because the other party was not negotiating in good faith. They were clearly being deceptive and this contract would be invalidated in any court in the land.
I contend that if Real is intentionally trying to hide the information from the end user, then they are not negotiating in good faith. The are intending to decive the end user, and the contract could be voided.
These are similar to the reasons why people hire lawyers...you don't want to get screwed by some hidden text somewhere that you were too lazy to read, so you have someone else read it for you.
Um....No. If you are hiring a lawyer to read a document for you because you are too lazy to read it, you are wasting a lot of money.
The main reason to have a lawyer review contracts for you is to discover (in the lawyers opinion) how the contract will interact with local laws. An apparently innocuous clause in a contract can interact with laws to produce bad results. Just because a lawyer has reviewed a document doesn't me that you shouldn't also. You should question the lawyer in detail about anything in the contract that you don't fully understand. Don't sign anything that you don't understand.
But the situation is not exactly analogous. Imagine two neighbors, each armed with guns. A theif breaks into neighbor 1's house, and the theif and neighbor 1, start shooting at each other. The theif shoots a bullet that travels into your house. Thinking that you are under attack in your own house, you start shootin at neighbor 1's house. Maybe, you even relise that there is a theif in neighbor 1's house and you are trying to shoot the theif, but instead you shoot neighbor 1, killing neighbor 1. I don't think that you can claim self defense in the murder of neighbor 1.
I went to CWRU when the initially installed the fiber on campus. All on campus housing, and academic building had fiber installed in 1988. The off campus frat houses (there are two types of frat houses at CWRU southside on campus and northside off campus) got fiber a few years later.
What you just discribed is called dumping and is illegal under most international trade agreements and local laws. Looks like there might be another Microsoft court case if they aren't careful.
Note: on May 20th, the ISO 3166 list changed East Timor's alpha-2 designation to TL (Timor Leste). Presumably the IANA will soon change their TLD accordingly. On May 20th, East Timor became an independant nation, prior to that they were a UN protectorate, and prior to that they were part of Indonesia.
I would go for East Timor. The timorese people have had a really tough time and could use the help. Plus they are the newest country in the world.
My point is that you shouldn't include intelligence agencies under law enforcement, they serve very different purposes. The intelligence agencies really don't care if you commit a crime, law enforcement does care.
For example, if you are getting a security clearance, an intelligence agency will investigate you. If on the application you state that you smoked pot, and when asked about it by the security officer clearing you, you clearly state that you smoked pot and are willing to tell anyone who asked, it will not be a problem for you to get a security clearance. They care about wether or not that information can be used to blackmail you.
If a law enforcement agency asks you the same question and you respond they same way, they have to arrest you and press charges. They care whether or not you have broken a law.
To do otherwise is to put the decision on the scope of the law into the hands of law enforcement, which is where they don't belong
But, Echelon isn't a law enforcement tool, it is an intelligence tool. If the FBI wants to hear what you are saying, they still need to get a warrant to listen in. Once they have that warrant, they can go to the local phone company and have a tap placed on your line. People don't seem to understand what tools are used for what.
Almost Right... 4) Number of real bugs (N) can be found as the ratio of found bebugs (FB) to unfound bebugs (F)
Should read:
4) Estimate of number of real bugs (Estimate of N) can be found as the ratio of found bebugs (FB) to unfound bebugs (B) times the number of real bugs found (FN).
4a) Testing can be considered complete when number of real bugs found (FN) equals Estimate of number of real bugs (Estimate of N).
It says they used 'software' to extend the range of the system. I don't see how that's possible unless there's some software tweak that increases the transmitter's output power beyond legal limits.
There are several ways to use software I quickly thought of that could increase the range.
Software controled antenna array.
By have several antennas in an array and use software to control the power output and phase to each antenna, you can create a highly directional and steerable beam. A similar aproach can be used to control the sensativity of the array in different directions. This could be used to make a very effective attenna that could automattically align itself to the strongest signal, hence reducing install costs.
Adding additional error correction.
By adding additional error correction you can trade bandwidth for reliability and therefor use a less reliable channel. Since as the range increase reliability of the channel decreases, this can effectively be used to extend the distance at which the devices operate.
That was with about 5 minutes of thought. I could probably (as could most decent comm. engineers) come up with several more if I spent 1/2 an hour thinking about the problem.
SIAC - the folks who run the networks for the stock exchanges, have cut over some mission-critical functionality over to Linux.
As one of the people who developed the ARTmail network at SIAC (The application running on linux), I can tell you that it is not mission critical.
The mission critical application run on MVS, Solaris, HP/UX, Tru64, and a few other obscure comerical unices but not Linux. Most of the mission critical apps actually run on MVS.
They need transportation, they go out and buy a truck.
Yes, but who would put an untrain employee with little drive experience and no experience driving a truck, behind the wheel of a tractor trailer and not expect to have the truck cause an accident?
Any company that sets up a database server with out hiring a qualified admin to set up and maintain it is asking for trouble. A qualified admin should have changed the SA password from null. There really is no reason this behavior should be acceptable.
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I agree, but I would change the answer to #6 to poor customer service. If enough people always give poor customer service as the reason they are cancelling, maybe and some point in the future companies will start to improve the customer service.
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Use of portion of a copyrighted work (e.g copying a scene from a movie) is allowed as fair use for research and educational purposes. Copying an entire work is not permitted.
I have virtually no chance of getting grant funding to do this given the current conditions, so I stand by my statement that you have quoted.
BZZZT!! Sorry you lose. This is no excuse. If you can't get funding to do your research, either you keep looking for more funding or you don't do the research.
If I as a CS researcher couldn't get funding to purchase computers I need to do my research does that give me the right to break into other people computers and use them to run my research programs? Gee, I'm sorry, I couldn't afford to get my own supercomputer so I just borrowed yours.
there is just no way I as a broke grad student can afford to even rent, let alone buy the anime without going into the hole to do a good research project.
Bullshit!!
If this is really legitimate research go apply for a grant and use the money from that to buy (or rent) anime. Part of grad school is learning how to get funding to support your research. When I was in grad school if I needed some software for a research project, I would include it in a grant proposal and get funding to purchase it, I wouldn't go pirating the software. I'm sure other media and material (e.g anime DVDs) in other disciplines is handled the same way.
What about take-your-daughter/son-to-work day? I wonder how much that costs us?
I used to work in the datacenters for the New York and American Stock Exchanges and one take-your-daughter to work day they decided to take the kids on a tour of the data center. The kids were slightly uncontrollable and one ran over and hit the emergency power off button for the data center. It halted trading on the AMEX for 3 minutes. I wonder what that cost the economy.
In my haste to reply quickly, I left out details that I thought would be clearly seen once I said use a switch with vlan tagging.
The upload to the host/router is via trunk port on the switch which is a member of all vlans. Since it is a trunk port the switch will forward the frame which the 802.1q tags on the frames.
The host/router is configured with virtual interfaces on each vlan. Since the tags are present it can determine which packets belong to which ports on the switch.
The host/router will use NAT/PAT to map the entire 0/0 address space to a single IP. Thus it will not matter what address is statically assigned to the laptop.
Since the ARP request will be confined to the VLAN only the host/router will see them and can respond with it's MAC address, thus it will become the gateway router for that port. Likewise you can map services that you would like to provide locally such as DNS this way (or just let DNS pass)
Of course, if they send a DHCP request you don't need to do all this work.
You should be able to do this with of the shelf components. A Cisco 3700 series router could handle a small setup and a Cisco Catalyst 5500/6500 with RSM could handle much larger setups. Any CCIE with much VLAN experience should be able to set this up.
If you want to go Open Source, you could use a Catalyst 5500/6500 with an OpenBSD/Linux/FreeBSD box instead of the RSM. You could even throw a bunch of quad nic into a box instead of using a switch but that would be a mess to manage.
Use a switch with VLAN tagging and one VLAN per port to connect to your router/host. Host will then substitute the real address if the user has static addressing or handle the DHCP request. Since each switch port is on a different VLAN you can use VLAN tags to determine whose machine sent you a packet. You can't do this at layer 3.
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One day the Governor of the State of Ohio, called a reporter at the newspaper to discuss an article, and the governor's direct dial number showed up on hte newspaper reporter's caller ID. The newspaper reporter told the governor what his direct dial number was, and the governor flipped out.
Now, there was as of yet no provision for blocking sending out your caller ID info on the switches we were using. We had to temporarily turn off all caller ID until we could patch the switch to allow blocking of caller ID info.
Aperature is not always best. Often large aperature telescopes are heavier and if the mount isn't upto the task using the scope could be a pain.
I would look at the Meade ETX-105EC. Check out The Mighty ETX Website for more advise.
Okay troll, I'll bite.
Actually the reason that I followed them, and the reason I'm an expert on them, is because I designed them. I worked on the I/O subsystem and probably know more about the machines then you. The last machine I worked on (before heading to grad school) was the 9021 10 way systems.
And IBM mainframe systems are not backward since 1985. The machines can run software written for the S/360 architecture (introduced in 1965) using interpreted execution (via the SIE opcode). Only software written for the S/390 architecture (introduced Sept. 1990) can run natively on current machines.
Among the things that changed with this architecture are the I/O subsystem and the memory addressing scheme. These subsystems are very different and code would require a recompile at the very least, unless you wanted to run interpreted.
I doubt that they are running a custom OS, probably MVS/ESA TSO (or zOS as it is now being called) or VM/ESA CMS. Neither of which is as old as you claim. As for the non OS software, the custom software may have been written in 1985, but don't blame the hardware for that.
I've probably forgetten more about computers, and these machines then you'll ever know about them troll. Have a nice life, oh, but first you would have to get one.
Well, since the S/390 architecture is only 12 years old, I find it very difficult to believe that the system is 18 years old. I haven't really kept up with the IBM S/390 products since the mid 90's, but at that time there wasn't a model 7060, so I have to conclude that the 7060 is no more than 7 years old, max.
Claiming that your system is 18 years old is like claiming that your Pentium IV system is 25 years old, because it's just an enhanced 8080.
Except, what happend when you need to do a complete restore?
You might try to counter this by saying, how often do you need to do a complete restore? Well, we are talking about offsite backup. Usually when you have to go to offsite backup to restore something it is because you had some sort of catastropic failure and need to completely restore your environment.
Let's take this arguement to the extreme. What if you and another party are entering into a contract, and you review the contract and everything seems reasonable so you sign this contract.
The other party then asks you to give them all of your money, as that was part of the contract. You dispute this, claiming that the contract says no such thing. They then pull out a microscope and show you that one of the periods in the contract contained a clause that required you to give all your money to the other party.
Is this contract valid?
No, because the other party was not negotiating in good faith. They were clearly being deceptive and this contract would be invalidated in any court in the land.
I contend that if Real is intentionally trying to hide the information from the end user, then they are not negotiating in good faith. The are intending to decive the end user, and the contract could be voided.
Um....No. If you are hiring a lawyer to read a document for you because you are too lazy to read it, you are wasting a lot of money.
The main reason to have a lawyer review contracts for you is to discover (in the lawyers opinion) how the contract will interact with local laws. An apparently innocuous clause in a contract can interact with laws to produce bad results. Just because a lawyer has reviewed a document doesn't me that you shouldn't also. You should question the lawyer in detail about anything in the contract that you don't fully understand. Don't sign anything that you don't understand.
But the situation is not exactly analogous. Imagine two neighbors, each armed with guns. A theif breaks into neighbor 1's house, and the theif and neighbor 1, start shooting at each other. The theif shoots a bullet that travels into your house. Thinking that you are under attack in your own house, you start shootin at neighbor 1's house. Maybe, you even relise that there is a theif in neighbor 1's house and you are trying to shoot the theif, but instead you shoot neighbor 1, killing neighbor 1. I don't think that you can claim self defense in the murder of neighbor 1.
This situation is a much closer analogy.
The technical meaning of blob is Binary Large OBject. It turns out that at a small enough level the universe appears to be a database.
I went to CWRU when the initially installed the fiber on campus. All on campus housing, and academic building had fiber installed in 1988. The off campus frat houses (there are two types of frat houses at CWRU southside on campus and northside off campus) got fiber a few years later.
What you just discribed is called dumping and is illegal under most international trade agreements and local laws. Looks like there might be another Microsoft court case if they aren't careful.
On May 20th, East Timor became an independant nation, prior to that they were a UN protectorate, and prior to that they were part of Indonesia.
I would go for East Timor. The timorese people have had a really tough time and could use the help. Plus they are the newest country in the world.
For example, if you are getting a security clearance, an intelligence agency will investigate you. If on the application you state that you smoked pot, and when asked about it by the security officer clearing you, you clearly state that you smoked pot and are willing to tell anyone who asked, it will not be a problem for you to get a security clearance. They care about wether or not that information can be used to blackmail you.
If a law enforcement agency asks you the same question and you respond they same way, they have to arrest you and press charges. They care whether or not you have broken a law.
But, Echelon isn't a law enforcement tool, it is an intelligence tool. If the FBI wants to hear what you are saying, they still need to get a warrant to listen in. Once they have that warrant, they can go to the local phone company and have a tap placed on your line. People don't seem to understand what tools are used for what.
4) Number of real bugs (N) can be found as the ratio of found bebugs (FB) to unfound bebugs (F)
Should read:
4) Estimate of number of real bugs (Estimate of N) can be found as the ratio of found bebugs (FB) to unfound bebugs (B) times the number of real bugs found (FN).
4a) Testing can be considered complete when number of real bugs found (FN) equals Estimate of number of real bugs (Estimate of N).
There are several ways to use software I quickly thought of that could increase the range.
By have several antennas in an array and use software to control the power output and phase to each antenna, you can create a highly directional and steerable beam. A similar aproach can be used to control the sensativity of the array in different directions. This could be used to make a very effective attenna that could automattically align itself to the strongest signal, hence reducing install costs.
By adding additional error correction you can trade bandwidth for reliability and therefor use a less reliable channel. Since as the range increase reliability of the channel decreases, this can effectively be used to extend the distance at which the devices operate.
That was with about 5 minutes of thought. I could probably (as could most decent comm. engineers) come up with several more if I spent 1/2 an hour thinking about the problem.
It would probably work for Lucas as well since he could charge 3x as much.
As one of the people who developed the ARTmail network at SIAC (The application running on linux), I can tell you that it is not mission critical.
The mission critical application run on MVS, Solaris, HP/UX, Tru64, and a few other obscure comerical unices but not Linux. Most of the mission critical apps actually run on MVS.
Yes, but who would put an untrain employee with little drive experience and no experience driving a truck, behind the wheel of a tractor trailer and not expect to have the truck cause an accident?
Any company that sets up a database server with out hiring a qualified admin to set up and maintain it is asking for trouble. A qualified admin should have changed the SA password from null. There really is no reason this behavior should be acceptable.
I agree, but I would change the answer to #6 to poor customer service. If enough people always give poor customer service as the reason they are cancelling, maybe and some point in the future companies will start to improve the customer service.
unauthorized copy of copyrighted work is not allowed for research or educational purpose.
Use of portion of a copyrighted work (e.g copying a scene from a movie) is allowed as fair use for research and educational purposes. Copying an entire work is not permitted.
I have virtually no chance of getting grant funding to do this given the current conditions, so I stand by my statement that you have quoted.
BZZZT!! Sorry you lose. This is no excuse. If you can't get funding to do your research, either you keep looking for more funding or you don't do the research.
If I as a CS researcher couldn't get funding to purchase computers I need to do my research does that give me the right to break into other people computers and use them to run my research programs? Gee, I'm sorry, I couldn't afford to get my own supercomputer so I just borrowed yours.
Bullshit!!
If this is really legitimate research go apply for a grant and use the money from that to buy (or rent) anime. Part of grad school is learning how to get funding to support your research. When I was in grad school if I needed some software for a research project, I would include it in a grant proposal and get funding to purchase it, I wouldn't go pirating the software. I'm sure other media and material (e.g anime DVDs) in other disciplines is handled the same way.
I used to work in the datacenters for the New York and American Stock Exchanges and one take-your-daughter to work day they decided to take the kids on a tour of the data center. The kids were slightly uncontrollable and one ran over and hit the emergency power off button for the data center. It halted trading on the AMEX for 3 minutes. I wonder what that cost the economy.
In my haste to reply quickly, I left out details that I thought would be clearly seen once I said use a switch with vlan tagging.
The upload to the host/router is via trunk port on the switch which is a member of all vlans. Since it is a trunk port the switch will forward the frame which the 802.1q tags on the frames.
The host/router is configured with virtual interfaces on each vlan. Since the tags are present it can determine which packets belong to which ports on the switch.
The host/router will use NAT/PAT to map the entire 0/0 address space to a single IP. Thus it will not matter what address is statically assigned to the laptop.
Since the ARP request will be confined to the VLAN only the host/router will see them and can respond with it's MAC address, thus it will become the gateway router for that port. Likewise you can map services that you would like to provide locally such as DNS this way (or just let DNS pass)
Of course, if they send a DHCP request you don't need to do all this work.
You should be able to do this with of the shelf components. A Cisco 3700 series router could handle a small setup and a Cisco Catalyst 5500/6500 with RSM could handle much larger setups. Any CCIE with much VLAN experience should be able to set this up.
If you want to go Open Source, you could use a Catalyst 5500/6500 with an OpenBSD/Linux/FreeBSD box instead of the RSM. You could even throw a bunch of quad nic into a box instead of using a switch but that would be a mess to manage.
Use a switch with VLAN tagging and one VLAN per port to connect to your router/host. Host will then substitute the real address if the user has static addressing or handle the DHCP request. Since each switch port is on a different VLAN you can use VLAN tags to determine whose machine sent you a packet. You can't do this at layer 3.