I think the that thing that is forgotten is that cross connect may have been disconnected. Where I work, we use DSL for IPTV over copper and they are always regrooming stuff at the peds.
I need to reply to this, but I will probably get modded down. Considering what gasoline and heating oil prices were, it appears that they will go up in the near future due to carbons swaps brought on by cap and trade. I am not debating whether or not this will be a good thing, but with the market and commodity derivatives causing some adjustments to the price, the government stepping in will cause more. Source: US News
I hope that I am not the only one who is amazed that 500 lines of Python code and a 200 page thesis paper that explains my methodology gets me a PhD at Berkley.
I hope he did something else, that I don't know about, like recompile and harden a Unix kernel/ develop his own minimum OS for it to run on and dig through the bugs to determine the security flaws that would exist if he was to use Python.
For the first time in my life, I am glad that I am not pursuing a graduate degree in computer science. If that is what it takes, I think Cmdr Taco should get a PhD for for giving us Slashdot. It is 10x more practical than "pvote" and is soundly implemented. When I think about it, Slashdot was near the front of web 2.0 because he provided a geek means of social interaction, maintains relevance to those in the computer industry, and wastes my time when I am bored.
I think that there was an administrative change. It sounds like the team was heavy Red Hat. They then added Fedora because funds got tight, it was free and was still official Red Hat. Finally, a few admins who had a preference for Debian (and its cousins) were brought on to replace a few former Red Hat admins who were originally there and they made a case standardizing on Ubuntu LTS 8.04.
Finally, I think another major part of it is that if it all goes to pot you can fall back on Canonical for support. You can't fall back to Red Hat if you install Centos.
I think this could eventually give Best Buy some leverage in selling electronics because they will package downloads with the sale of mp3 players. I think they may be putting together enough clout to give Apple a good scare.
That is my concern and why I am holding off on buying a hybrid for another couple of years because I want to see what happens with the Prius when it becomes old and the batteries have to be replaced. I also want to know what the cost of doing that is and if other mechanics (not the dealer) will offer that service. I will own a hybrid, but not for 2-3 years.
I read this and seriously thought about all of the points that were raised, and the only thing that I can come up with is "employment at will". If you want out. Get out.
After reading everything here, I honestly feel like I am a freak for getting into IT. I left the construction industry for retail management and through a couple of more career moves found myself working in IT. In the process, I went back to school and now I have a job that I work hard at, but generally enjoy. Seriously, I used to roof homes and that is some strain, sitting at my desk researching for routing configs or writing scripts is easy.
I'm going to say this and get modded as flamebait, but just because you have a job that makes you feel entitled, doesn't mean that you are.
This goes back to the breakup of the monopoly. Once the higher profits were no longer sustainable combined with the litigious society we live in, sustaining a pure R&D department became unsustainable. If a company can't make money in the middle term, how can it turn a profit in the long term or short terms.
I think Alcatel-Lucent is dead. It is too bad, they should have taken a page from Cisco's book.
Actually, It is a bandwidth issue. If the cable company allows for centralized DVR, then they don't have to send you the data twice because it stays in the network at the cable headend. This solves the last mile issue.
Seriously, you couldn't write a program to copy the dhcp logs to a file with a date in it?
I'll bet, there is some Camel hacker reading this post that could write it in about 30 minutes. I know it would take me about a day to write a program that would take the logs at 3:00 am copy them to a new file and zip it. The hardest (for me) part is making sure that logs and STDERR outputs are written correctly.
I would also get a "Super Buddy". It is a device that will help you find the azimuth and location of satellites. You should be able to point the unit and pick up about 40+ sattellites. I would make sure that you do have Ku band LNBs in the device. G-25 and G-28 have a ton of free tv on them, you should be able to pick them up around 80 - 99 degrees. These satellites usually have a lot of noise associated with them, but it should work fine, just try to get the highest C/N for the feed you are looking for. Happy Hunting!
This article would be 10x funnier if it was a windows system and the other admins can't get in. Then we would know they definitely are not reading Slashdot. Microsoft has a backdoor for everything.
pfSense or M0n0wall would work great for this. I would be weary of buying DSL from two different providers because often times it is the same provider just the local ILEC has entered into an agreement to allow reselling services in the area so that they can sell services in the area that they service. If you buy DSL from two different DSL providers it is likely fed out of the same Central Office and therefore fed into the same router that is your gateway to the Internet. So, if there is a hiccup in the routing table, both links will feel it. I think cable + DSL is the best way to go.
I run an IPTV headend and our combined multicast traffic is 2 Gb/s of data. Adding a zero to that is nothing, not to mention I run that through one router and this was distributed through the U.S.
I think the bigger deal is that it was isolated to a few sites. ESPN has to have some big pipes. As Mike and Mike said best in the morning, Tiger Woods is the next Michael Jordan.
I have to say that this is amazing, when you give your employees the ability to work at home, they over work themselves.
That seems the opposite of conventional wisdom, and I remember reading another story here, some time ago, that said that in the office employees think that telecommuters appear to be doing less work.
I think it comes down to cost vs. benefit; which, I should have mentioned that in my first post. At work we run all Cisco/Occam/Fujitsu gear for transport because uptime and security is important, but when I get home, the crappy Belkin in the corner works.
At work, I get paid to care. When it comes to helping my parents, etc. I do my best with their equipment, but I am not on top of their latest bios for their Dell PC nor my own (crappy) pc. I would rather spend my time programming for the sake of learning, spending time with my gf, working out, reading, etc.
Seriously, I work to update the equipment at work, but at home, I just really don't care a whole lot about a $30 router. I can't tell you the last time upgraded the bios on a motherboard. I think it was an older P3 Dell PowerEdge because I was installing Linux on it.
This past mother's day, I overheard my cousins and my sister talk about laptops and they complained about having problems with a Dell and having to deal with Dell tech support. My cousin then got a Mac and when she had a problem she took it to the Apple store and the problem was solved.
Apple sells a good PC with a feeling of superiority. What is being sold by Dell are cheap, commodity Windows PCs that everyone has. I view it like the difference between wearing something that says the North Face and wearing Lands' End. Both are essentially the same thing, but one item has marketing connotations associated with it, that average Joe chooses not to see past or whats to be associated with.
Ever try to find a job @ 25 in Southern WI. I would guess that almost 80% of the people under the age of thirty have a B.S. in something or another.
I have to give this guy credit for seeing an opportunity and taking it. Not many people are willing to leave there family for a year to teach English in China for $12,000 a year.
I think think of a dozen managers here, who I have worked for, who don't cut the mustard, but companies are too afraid to let them go because the U.S. is so litigious.
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I think the that thing that is forgotten is that cross connect may have been disconnected. Where I work, we use DSL for IPTV over copper and they are always regrooming stuff at the peds.
I need to reply to this, but I will probably get modded down. Considering what gasoline and heating oil prices were, it appears that they will go up in the near future due to carbons swaps brought on by cap and trade. I am not debating whether or not this will be a good thing, but with the market and commodity derivatives causing some adjustments to the price, the government stepping in will cause more. Source: US News
I hope that I am not the only one who is amazed that 500 lines of Python code and a 200 page thesis paper that explains my methodology gets me a PhD at Berkley.
I hope he did something else, that I don't know about, like recompile and harden a Unix kernel/ develop his own minimum OS for it to run on and dig through the bugs to determine the security flaws that would exist if he was to use Python.
For the first time in my life, I am glad that I am not pursuing a graduate degree in computer science. If that is what it takes, I think Cmdr Taco should get a PhD for for giving us Slashdot. It is 10x more practical than "pvote" and is soundly implemented. When I think about it, Slashdot was near the front of web 2.0 because he provided a geek means of social interaction, maintains relevance to those in the computer industry, and wastes my time when I am bored.
I think that there was an administrative change. It sounds like the team was heavy Red Hat. They then added Fedora because funds got tight, it was free and was still official Red Hat. Finally, a few admins who had a preference for Debian (and its cousins) were brought on to replace a few former Red Hat admins who were originally there and they made a case standardizing on Ubuntu LTS 8.04.
Finally, I think another major part of it is that if it all goes to pot you can fall back on Canonical for support. You can't fall back to Red Hat if you install Centos.
I think this could eventually give Best Buy some leverage in selling electronics because they will package downloads with the sale of mp3 players. I think they may be putting together enough clout to give Apple a good scare.
Why is this modded troll? It is a great point.
That is my concern and why I am holding off on buying a hybrid for another couple of years because I want to see what happens with the Prius when it becomes old and the batteries have to be replaced. I also want to know what the cost of doing that is and if other mechanics (not the dealer) will offer that service. I will own a hybrid, but not for 2-3 years.
I read this and seriously thought about all of the points that were raised, and the only thing that I can come up with is "employment at will". If you want out. Get out.
After reading everything here, I honestly feel like I am a freak for getting into IT. I left the construction industry for retail management and through a couple of more career moves found myself working in IT. In the process, I went back to school and now I have a job that I work hard at, but generally enjoy. Seriously, I used to roof homes and that is some strain, sitting at my desk researching for routing configs or writing scripts is easy.
I'm going to say this and get modded as flamebait, but just because you have a job that makes you feel entitled, doesn't mean that you are.
I think that Google learned this from the Microsoft Playbook.
This goes back to the breakup of the monopoly. Once the higher profits were no longer sustainable combined with the litigious society we live in, sustaining a pure R&D department became unsustainable. If a company can't make money in the middle term, how can it turn a profit in the long term or short terms.
I think Alcatel-Lucent is dead. It is too bad, they should have taken a page from Cisco's book.
and said that its OS is not going out without a fight!
Seriously, some variation of NT 5 is going to live for a long time, ReactOS is proof positive of this.
Actually, It is a bandwidth issue. If the cable company allows for centralized DVR, then they don't have to send you the data twice because it stays in the network at the cable headend. This solves the last mile issue.
Seriously, you couldn't write a program to copy the dhcp logs to a file with a date in it?
I'll bet, there is some Camel hacker reading this post that could write it in about 30 minutes. I know it would take me about a day to write a program that would take the logs at 3:00 am copy them to a new file and zip it. The hardest (for me) part is making sure that logs and STDERR outputs are written correctly.
I would also get a "Super Buddy". It is a device that will help you find the azimuth and location of satellites. You should be able to point the unit and pick up about 40+ sattellites. I would make sure that you do have Ku band LNBs in the device. G-25 and G-28 have a ton of free tv on them, you should be able to pick them up around 80 - 99 degrees. These satellites usually have a lot of noise associated with them, but it should work fine, just try to get the highest C/N for the feed you are looking for. Happy Hunting!
This article would be 10x funnier if it was a windows system and the other admins can't get in. Then we would know they definitely are not reading Slashdot. Microsoft has a backdoor for everything.
pfSense or M0n0wall would work great for this. I would be weary of buying DSL from two different providers because often times it is the same provider just the local ILEC has entered into an agreement to allow reselling services in the area so that they can sell services in the area that they service. If you buy DSL from two different DSL providers it is likely fed out of the same Central Office and therefore fed into the same router that is your gateway to the Internet. So, if there is a hiccup in the routing table, both links will feel it. I think cable + DSL is the best way to go.
I run an IPTV headend and our combined multicast traffic is 2 Gb/s of data. Adding a zero to that is nothing, not to mention I run that through one router and this was distributed through the U.S.
I think the bigger deal is that it was isolated to a few sites. ESPN has to have some big pipes. As Mike and Mike said best in the morning, Tiger Woods is the next Michael Jordan.
I have to say that this is amazing, when you give your employees the ability to work at home, they over work themselves.
That seems the opposite of conventional wisdom, and I remember reading another story here, some time ago, that said that in the office employees think that telecommuters appear to be doing less work.
I think it comes down to cost vs. benefit; which, I should have mentioned that in my first post. At work we run all Cisco/Occam/Fujitsu gear for transport because uptime and security is important, but when I get home, the crappy Belkin in the corner works.
At work, I get paid to care. When it comes to helping my parents, etc. I do my best with their equipment, but I am not on top of their latest bios for their Dell PC nor my own (crappy) pc. I would rather spend my time programming for the sake of learning, spending time with my gf, working out, reading, etc.
I have the answer...
Every time you masturbate God kills a kitten. please think of the kittens.
Google does no evil, therefore YouTube does not evil. Which means YouTube stays pr0n free :)
Seriously, I work to update the equipment at work, but at home, I just really don't care a whole lot about a $30 router.
I can't tell you the last time upgraded the bios on a motherboard. I think it was an older P3 Dell PowerEdge because I was installing Linux on it.
that is selling a mac.
This past mother's day, I overheard my cousins and my sister talk about laptops and they complained about having problems with a Dell and having to deal with Dell tech support. My cousin then got a Mac and when she had a problem she took it to the Apple store and the problem was solved.
Apple sells a good PC with a feeling of superiority. What is being sold by Dell are cheap, commodity Windows PCs that everyone has. I view it like the difference between wearing something that says the North Face and wearing Lands' End. Both are essentially the same thing, but one item has marketing connotations associated with it, that average Joe chooses not to see past or whats to be associated with.
sub-notebook- $75
specific ram upgrade to 512 MB- $75
battery replacement- $50
PCMCIA 54g card- $30
Total= $230 + 4 hours time to reformat upgrade, etc.
I would think the EE @ $299 looks like a better buy because you also get a warranty. Let's face it notebooks are commodity goods now.
Ever try to find a job @ 25 in Southern WI. I would guess that almost 80% of the people under the age of thirty have a B.S. in something or another. I have to give this guy credit for seeing an opportunity and taking it. Not many people are willing to leave there family for a year to teach English in China for $12,000 a year. I think think of a dozen managers here, who I have worked for, who don't cut the mustard, but companies are too afraid to let them go because the U.S. is so litigious.