I don't think they can handle RPN any more than HP handles infix, which is somewhat unfortunate but the time it takes to get used to RPN seems to outweigh the time it takes just to use parentheses the few times I need to.
Huh? Many optimizations in many different disciplines are based on the very idea that it's best to do something difficult *once* to save time on each further iteration. That's exactly what this is. You have a negative time gain for the first couple of weeks, but then for the rest of your life, you have a time gain every time you pick up your calculator. I don't know about you, but I use my calculators (HP 48GX and HP 16C) a lot.
People may talk about the market being bad, whatever. Any real engineer from a real university will get a job if he has some work experience and some common sense. I'm sorry, but most people I know that whine about not getting jobs should choose another field as they're not qualified. Notice I said "most" not "all." In any event, they tell you the different engineering disciplines are different. Really, it's just a facade to get you to come to "their" program. Granted, you will learn different things. However, engineering programs are all about applying the same math and physical sciences to problems in a specific discipline, be it electrical, chemical, or mechanical. That doesn't mean some programs are harder than others. Typically, electrical and chemical tend to be up there as far as difficulty. That's OK, a lot of them fail out anyway. As we say at Rutgers, "If you can't hack it, pack it." That refers to the fact that sadly, Rutgers actually has a Packaging Engineering program. So sad, it doesn't even have a website.
As others have mentioned before, the first thing that comes to my mind when I read about states doing this is the fact that by law, only the Congress can regulate interstate commerce. If you pay this State tax, you are technically participating in an illegal transaction. With that said, it can be boiled down into which law you want to follow, the federal one that's been through judicial review or the not as old set of laws regarding importation of goods from other states.
Yea, that's 98 RON, which is not what we grade in America. We grade R+M/2. A nice way to boost octane, though is to use Toluene (R+M/2 = 114) or Xylene (R+M/2 = 117). They can typically be added as up to 30% of your gasoline mixture.
It may be expensive, but I have to say I love the 6500 series, especially our new 6513s. They really are beautiful boxes. Dual SUPs, Firewall Services Module, Content Switching Module, so amazing. Check out this if you're wondering why the parent and I are giddy.
Ehh... not as easy as it sounds. Suppose your management interface is Vlan 1. Let's assume you have a physical switchport somewhere on Vlan 1. Grabbing a random IP on Vlan 1 won't work if it's restricted, so you need to poison. Spanning tree (you are running spanning tree, right?) is in listening mode. It's going to go into blocking soon. To get around that, you have to send a BPDU out, win the election and become root. I will concede that that is doable. However, you shouldn't have random switchports laying around in no shut or enable on Vlan 1. In addition, ports should have trunking turned off. The other option is spoofing your IP to be one from a trusted network. You should be running antispoofing ACLs inbound on all your interfaces, so this shouldn't be a problem either.
Any Cisco admin worth their salt is going to ACL off their management interfaces limiting the number of hosts that can actually telnet/ssh to the box. All hosts that have access to the management interface also should have good security. If your network is designed well, releasing enable passwords for even a very important device (while critical) should not pose any actual threat.
The thing I love about Cisco is you can do Carrier Class Core, Distribution, and Access all with one company. That's hard to match from a configuration/ubiquity standpoint.
You're wrong, just plain wrong. Factory engineers design software to suit a particular purpose. That "particular purpose" is really the individual purposes of thousands of drivers. The factory is not catering to the tuner. As such, it is not capable of delivering 100% performance on whatever fuel you throw at it. The dyno does not lie, tuning for specific fuel types (i.e. 104 vs 93) does yield significant performance enhancements. A few aftermarket engineers pushing for max performance can achieve what factory engineers did not set out to do. It's not that one "outsmarts" the other, it's that they have different design goals. And evidence between moderately turning up boost and engine failure is pretty anecdotal. Maxing out boost, of course, will cause the engine to fail, but so will pouring sand in it.
FWIW, the Audi/VW design does not have any sort of electronic blow off valve. They're controlled by manifold vacuum and are actually bypass valves, not blowoffs.
Just a question... have you met many bikers? Most of them are some of the nicest people I've ever met and have the utmost respect for life and property. Way to be prejudiced to a large lot based on the actions of a few. Also, typically on the roads, "real" bikers tend to be very conservative in their driving as opposed to the ricers who feel the need to weave between traffic at 100mph+.
Hehe, I had Debian on my Powerbook and I switched to OS X after Panther came out. I really enjoy it. I have all my normal UNIX apps as well as stuff like Office (which I think is better on the Mac than on Windows). And I have Virtual Desktop support due the wonderful Desktop Manager. I highly recommend OS X.
I can understand where you're going, but it just doesn't hold water in my book. Wherever I've worked doing tech jobs, there is always a skew towards males. Also, my engineering class is about 95% male. That's a rough bias.
Sounds like being an idiot is to blame. Seriously though, most people have SSH running all the time without tcp wrappers on it, either. Most people don't have issues with it. Your friend probably had weak passwords. Don't blame SSH when you admitted you do not know that SSH was the problem. Maybe you should see what actually did happen before spouting flamebait.
I'm well aware of the mastering process. However, AAC, MP3, or OGG are nowhere near as accurate as a CD is. By the way, you'd be hard pressed to find a "DAT master" of anything these days. FYI, a DAT is at most 48KHz/16 bit, hardly better than 44.1KHz/16 bit as a CD is. And those of us who do record on DAT often do it at 44.1KHz as to avoid the potentially nasty remaster from 48KHz -> 44.1KHz.
I'm running out of space on my 15 gig iPod, thank you very much. It allows me to have a lot of different music available at all times without having to sync all the time. I love the scroll wheel. I guess I could technically see what you mean about the direction on it, however it seems most natural to me. That's the problem with rotational motion... force couples are equal and opposite parallel vectors... confusing the heck out of north, east, south, west.
Switching is layer 2, routing is layer 3. If you are, in fact, saying that a PC can perform layer 2 operations faster than a switch, you're wrong. Layer 2 switching is done in hardware (custom ASICs). The beautiful thing about Cisco is that with MLS (Multi Layer Switching) and CEF (Cisco Express Forwarding), layer 3 operations can be performed in hardware, never seeing the CPU. You cannot do that on a PC.
1. Cisco has plenty of documentation, online and otherwise. 2. No matter whether you run Linux, OpenBSD, or IOS on a Cisco box, if a vulnerability comes up, unless you're a fluent coder, you're not patching it until someone else fixes it. Cisco is generally very good about fixing critical problems. 3. Considering 10 year old Cisco equipment is still in use in many places, I don't think that you have to worry about purchasing "a whole new unit." 4. An army of people who know IOS. Need I remind you of the evolution of Linux routing? 2.0.x: ipfwadm. 2.2.x: ipchains. 2.(4|6).x: iptables. Things change a lot in Linux it seems.
Now that I've defended Cisco, let me throw some points towards Linux. Linux is great for networking, I use it a lot. I wouldn't buy a Cisco router for my house, it's just not practical. If up front cost is that much of an issue, use Linux. I've been in the situation, and I still have [Linux] boxes routing at places I haven't worked at in a long time without rebooting since I've left. That said, the networks I work with now could never be run on PC hardware. It's just not possible. The beautiful thing about dedicated networking hardware (i.e. Cisco) is that it has the ability of doing operations via custom ASICs. Therefore, the CPU load stays super low, latency goes way down. That doesn't make a difference on a T1, but it sure makes a difference on a Gigabit connection. Whenever the money is there these days, I recommend Cisco.
On the other end you have gentoo which gives you a full shell and I'm good with using a shell so that install was pretty easy too. But Debian lives in this weird in-between world (like a VCR's interface) where you don't have an intuitive GUI but you also don't have a shell's freedom to put what you want where you know it needs to go.
Huh? You can easily get a shell during a Debian install. Press Alt-F2 or Alt-F3, etc. I consider Debian one of the easiest distros to install, then again, maybe thats because I RTFM.
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Ugh. For the Nth time, you can't use a Palm on an exam. Plus, using a stylus on a calculator is like using a wooden spoon to do open heart surgery.
Huh? Many optimizations in many different disciplines are based on the very idea that it's best to do something difficult *once* to save time on each further iteration. That's exactly what this is. You have a negative time gain for the first couple of weeks, but then for the rest of your life, you have a time gain every time you pick up your calculator. I don't know about you, but I use my calculators (HP 48GX and HP 16C) a lot.
People may talk about the market being bad, whatever. Any real engineer from a real university will get a job if he has some work experience and some common sense. I'm sorry, but most people I know that whine about not getting jobs should choose another field as they're not qualified. Notice I said "most" not "all." In any event, they tell you the different engineering disciplines are different. Really, it's just a facade to get you to come to "their" program. Granted, you will learn different things. However, engineering programs are all about applying the same math and physical sciences to problems in a specific discipline, be it electrical, chemical, or mechanical. That doesn't mean some programs are harder than others. Typically, electrical and chemical tend to be up there as far as difficulty. That's OK, a lot of them fail out anyway. As we say at Rutgers, "If you can't hack it, pack it." That refers to the fact that sadly, Rutgers actually has a Packaging Engineering program. So sad, it doesn't even have a website.
As others have mentioned before, the first thing that comes to my mind when I read about states doing this is the fact that by law, only the Congress can regulate interstate commerce. If you pay this State tax, you are technically participating in an illegal transaction. With that said, it can be boiled down into which law you want to follow, the federal one that's been through judicial review or the not as old set of laws regarding importation of goods from other states.
Yea, that's 98 RON, which is not what we grade in America. We grade R+M/2. A nice way to boost octane, though is to use Toluene (R+M/2 = 114) or Xylene (R+M/2 = 117). They can typically be added as up to 30% of your gasoline mixture.
It may be expensive, but I have to say I love the 6500 series, especially our new 6513s. They really are beautiful boxes. Dual SUPs, Firewall Services Module, Content Switching Module, so amazing. Check out this if you're wondering why the parent and I are giddy.
Ehh... not as easy as it sounds. Suppose your management interface is Vlan 1. Let's assume you have a physical switchport somewhere on Vlan 1. Grabbing a random IP on Vlan 1 won't work if it's restricted, so you need to poison. Spanning tree (you are running spanning tree, right?) is in listening mode. It's going to go into blocking soon. To get around that, you have to send a BPDU out, win the election and become root. I will concede that that is doable. However, you shouldn't have random switchports laying around in no shut or enable on Vlan 1. In addition, ports should have trunking turned off. The other option is spoofing your IP to be one from a trusted network. You should be running antispoofing ACLs inbound on all your interfaces, so this shouldn't be a problem either.
Any Cisco admin worth their salt is going to ACL off their management interfaces limiting the number of hosts that can actually telnet/ssh to the box. All hosts that have access to the management interface also should have good security. If your network is designed well, releasing enable passwords for even a very important device (while critical) should not pose any actual threat.
The thing I love about Cisco is you can do Carrier Class Core, Distribution, and Access all with one company. That's hard to match from a configuration/ubiquity standpoint.
Yes, I know that. However, the parent wasn't clear which one he was speaking of. Since he specifically mentioned a blow off, I commented on that.
You're wrong, just plain wrong. Factory engineers design software to suit a particular purpose. That "particular purpose" is really the individual purposes of thousands of drivers. The factory is not catering to the tuner. As such, it is not capable of delivering 100% performance on whatever fuel you throw at it. The dyno does not lie, tuning for specific fuel types (i.e. 104 vs 93) does yield significant performance enhancements. A few aftermarket engineers pushing for max performance can achieve what factory engineers did not set out to do. It's not that one "outsmarts" the other, it's that they have different design goals. And evidence between moderately turning up boost and engine failure is pretty anecdotal. Maxing out boost, of course, will cause the engine to fail, but so will pouring sand in it.
FWIW, the Audi/VW design does not have any sort of electronic blow off valve. They're controlled by manifold vacuum and are actually bypass valves, not blowoffs.
Just a question... have you met many bikers? Most of them are some of the nicest people I've ever met and have the utmost respect for life and property. Way to be prejudiced to a large lot based on the actions of a few. Also, typically on the roads, "real" bikers tend to be very conservative in their driving as opposed to the ricers who feel the need to weave between traffic at 100mph+.
Hehe, I had Debian on my Powerbook and I switched to OS X after Panther came out. I really enjoy it. I have all my normal UNIX apps as well as stuff like Office (which I think is better on the Mac than on Windows). And I have Virtual Desktop support due the wonderful Desktop Manager. I highly recommend OS X.
I can understand where you're going, but it just doesn't hold water in my book. Wherever I've worked doing tech jobs, there is always a skew towards males. Also, my engineering class is about 95% male. That's a rough bias.
I think the moderators are missing the obvious (to me) sarcasm.
The question is not 'why female geeks?' but rather 'what female geeks?' ;-)
And it costs MORE not to switch. Unfortunately, most companies can't see past their nose as far as technology costs are concerned.
Sounds like being an idiot is to blame. Seriously though, most people have SSH running all the time without tcp wrappers on it, either. Most people don't have issues with it. Your friend probably had weak passwords. Don't blame SSH when you admitted you do not know that SSH was the problem. Maybe you should see what actually did happen before spouting flamebait.
I'm well aware of the mastering process. However, AAC, MP3, or OGG are nowhere near as accurate as a CD is. By the way, you'd be hard pressed to find a "DAT master" of anything these days. FYI, a DAT is at most 48KHz/16 bit, hardly better than 44.1KHz/16 bit as a CD is. And those of us who do record on DAT often do it at 44.1KHz as to avoid the potentially nasty remaster from 48KHz -> 44.1KHz.
I'm running out of space on my 15 gig iPod, thank you very much. It allows me to have a lot of different music available at all times without having to sync all the time. I love the scroll wheel. I guess I could technically see what you mean about the direction on it, however it seems most natural to me. That's the problem with rotational motion... force couples are equal and opposite parallel vectors... confusing the heck out of north, east, south, west.
Switching is layer 2, routing is layer 3. If you are, in fact, saying that a PC can perform layer 2 operations faster than a switch, you're wrong. Layer 2 switching is done in hardware (custom ASICs). The beautiful thing about Cisco is that with MLS (Multi Layer Switching) and CEF (Cisco Express Forwarding), layer 3 operations can be performed in hardware, never seeing the CPU. You cannot do that on a PC.
Cisco is a standard. Period.
1. Cisco has plenty of documentation, online and otherwise.
2. No matter whether you run Linux, OpenBSD, or IOS on a Cisco box, if a vulnerability comes up, unless you're a fluent coder, you're not patching it until someone else fixes it. Cisco is generally very good about fixing critical problems.
3. Considering 10 year old Cisco equipment is still in use in many places, I don't think that you have to worry about purchasing "a whole new unit."
4. An army of people who know IOS. Need I remind you of the evolution of Linux routing? 2.0.x: ipfwadm. 2.2.x: ipchains. 2.(4|6).x: iptables. Things change a lot in Linux it seems.
Now that I've defended Cisco, let me throw some points towards Linux. Linux is great for networking, I use it a lot. I wouldn't buy a Cisco router for my house, it's just not practical. If up front cost is that much of an issue, use Linux. I've been in the situation, and I still have [Linux] boxes routing at places I haven't worked at in a long time without rebooting since I've left. That said, the networks I work with now could never be run on PC hardware. It's just not possible. The beautiful thing about dedicated networking hardware (i.e. Cisco) is that it has the ability of doing operations via custom ASICs. Therefore, the CPU load stays super low, latency goes way down. That doesn't make a difference on a T1, but it sure makes a difference on a Gigabit connection. Whenever the money is there these days, I recommend Cisco.
Huh? You can easily get a shell during a Debian install. Press Alt-F2 or Alt-F3, etc. I consider Debian one of the easiest distros to install, then again, maybe thats because I RTFM.