Ugh: Juniper is turning up everywhere, and it's utter wank. Or at least it is if using Juniper and Virtella's network.
I was forced to move to it at work because it supports 64-bit Windows, whereas we had no 64-bit Cisco client available to us.
Fast forward to my next business trip to China and I find the Juniper based VPN can't cope with the packet loss connecting to the West from my hotel room. I fire 32 bit Windows XP in VMWare Player and connect the Cisco client, and hey, I can suddenly download the email the Outlook hasn't been able to get for 45 minutes, and I can finally check changes back in to Perforce, etc, etc. Using both VPNs concurrently, it's easy to get a direct comparison, and Virtella's support for us is non-existent.
Cisco connection: Ping statistics for 10.2.11.15:
Packets: Sent = 100, Received = 96, Lost = 4 (4% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 175ms, Maximum = 466ms, Average = 183ms
Juniper connection: Ping statistics for 10.2.11.15:
Packets: Sent = 100, Received = 55, Lost = 45 (45% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 195ms, Maximum = 530ms, Average = 210ms
Oh and the other annoyance with the Juniper client is the frequency connections fail due the client being refused by the gateway. The solution is to restart the Juniper service. If you don't have a local admin password, you have to freaking reboot.
You're talking too sanely. This sounds like a case of too many narcissistic people not taking enough responsibility for their own actions. If there's a rear-end collision because somebody braked approaching a junction then it means the person behind was following too closely, not paying sufficient attention, driving too quickly, etc, etc. Having driven in LA I can attest to a culture of tail-gating and trying to drive too quickly for the conditions. Up the penalties if people won't or can't take responsibility for their own actions.
Yeah, the.Net thing sounds like a storm in a teacup. Really! Whinging just shows a lack of understanding about Microsoft. This is a company that goes out of their way to maintain backwards compatibility. It also shows a lack of understanding of.Net, the benefits and the scale of deployment. Next story please...
That seems to be a new feature, thanks. Last time I looked at this the only way to do it was to create a new account. This after all the other crap to hookup my account for Find My iPhone.
It mystifies me why we're required to keep a credit card on file for using iTunes. Sure, it makes it easier to buy stuff, but I'd rather they didn't store it. I don't buy many apps any way, and certainly don't need a CC for free purchases. Bad move Apple.
Vonage... great idea; poor implementation (or maybe that's an inherent problem with the underlying protocols like SIP).
I was a Vonage customer when I lived in Canada. There was always terrible latency calling mobile phones, to the point where it would screw up conversations. And as somebody who travels a lot (like going to live elsewhere for four weeks or more at a time), I loved the idea of portability and location transparency offered by Vonage. Unfortunately it didn't work, which was a problem for those years I'd spend 15 weeks or more in the UK. Plugging the Vonage router in to a good internet connection in the UK still resulted in terrible audio sounding like a CD skipping.
Skype on the other hand has coped with just about everything I've thrown at it, including five months living in Shanghai with the terrible connectivity China has with the outside world. Conversations were acceptable to other Skype users and phones, with latency often in the 500-750ms.
If there's a choice of Skype's client or an alternative open source client, I'll probably be sticking with the Skype one, unless the open one has some other compelling reasons. Whilst Skype's UI is painful, it's generally better than the UI efforts of most open source software, and integrates better natively with whatever platform than most open source cross-platform apps. These are both areas where open source people seem to be clueless.
The/. crowd overstates the Microsoft security issues. I've been running a Microsoft based system for 12 years (IIS front-end, SQL Server back-end). It's a mature set of sites that haven't had any active development for five years. We're we're waiting for the traffic to die down enough to kill it (currently still 50,000 visits/day). The only issues we've had were Nimda back in the day... incompetent admin at the time allowed the servers to be infected twice (as well as the office network). Maybe we're safe now because we're still running Windows Server 2000;) Incidentally it's been cool seeing it go from 8 front line web servers on P3-500's at a co-lo to two VMs hosted at the office. Total downtime in all those years for maintenance out weighs the 24 hours due to security problems, and if we hadn't had a dickhead running the IT, we wouldn't have a problems with Nimda either. For a couple of years though we did have some other stuff running on LAMP... that was much more work maintaining and keeping locked down and secure.
Here's the current situation: - Email works everywhere. There's no "Microsoft email vs Google email" problems. You have an email account, you can send and receive email from other users with an email account. It's all compatible, world-wide.
Actually that is sadly changing. Increasing amounts of people are sending me messages via Facebook, which isn't connected to email and doesn't provide nearly the same power and features of even the crappest MUA.
Forget emulation AND keeping around old junk.... I bought Doom for the iPhone 4 the other day. The controls are a little harder, but I couldn't play the original on the Tube or walking down the street...
Why? How's that fair? If you were making an argument for education or healthcare, or anything else that benefits society through supporting you, then maybe. But not for commodities like game. It's discrimination at that point. If you can't afford games, find something else to do.
This is why I find companies like GoToMeeting who break Alt-Tab functionality really really annoying. If you're on a single monitor, you need to be able to switch back and forth really efficiently.
Windows 7 brings some new ideas like the half-screen maximise, but it also has a really annoying habit of re-sorting the task list once you have a bunch of things running, breaking that mental stack I have of the 8 apps I'm currently switching back-and-forth between and forcing me to stop and start inspecting windows (especially if I'm working with say 3 Explorer windows to save me having to keep navigating back and forth in that app).
I've found that Microsoft Security Essentials has been working better than Symantec. I switched when the corporate standard (Symantec) allowed a bunch of people's machines to get infected, yet the MSFT tool caught the problem.
I run my domain account as a normal user. Any admin escalations end up being run as my local admin account (username + password required to escalate, rather than just clicked yes on the UAC prompt). All child processes then run as this local user, although I've never checked if they're lacking full admin rights.
Visual Studio 2005 and above is fine without admin privs. I do this everyday. There are some issues, such as developing COM objects and registering them the first time, but it is mostly ok as a regular user. VS2010 and almost aware of its limitations. VS2003 is another issue, but it's really broken on Win7 x64 and requires a bunch of compatibility features to be enabled to avoid weird build errors around bizarrely the PDB files.
Errr, where did that come from? Shouldn't it be "an unarmed society"? Americans are rude; the British and Japanese are not. (sorry for expressing stereotypes, but there is some reality there)
I'm actually quite happy with Microsoft's OS X support. In fact Live Meeting (our corporate standard for conferencing and desktop sharing) works better on OS X than on Windows 7 x64!!! Whatever they do with Skype, I'm sure we'll see the technology being used to improve other existing Microsoft products.
And where is the open source alternative? And no, none of the SIP-based implementations I've ever seen work as well (especially in the face of latency and packet loss), nor have the user base (i.e. I don't have anybody to talk to). Probably this is a bigger problem for the small number of Linux on the desktop users, whilst the rest of us in the Windows and Mac worlds carry on unaffected.
That's actually a surprisingly short and a rather weak list of examples of EEE by Microsoft. How would that compare to other companies large companies?
I get no spam from Skype. Dunno what you're doing. It's the best and most universal tool for communication. The UI is utter wank though... maybe worse the same people who designed eBay with it's plethora of fonts and colours. Ugh. Microsoft can't go wrong improving that, and if they integrate some of the tech in to things like Office Communicator (our official corporate standard), then I will be happy. I can't see them completely canning UNIX support though as they do seem to be sort of support OS X at the moment.
Don't forget that the Aussie prices include 10% GST, whereas the Canadian ones are exclusive of tax. The difference is still big.
I wanted to the buy the Lonely Planet guide to New Zealand when I was in 'stralya a couple of years ago. $45 from the local book shop. $37 from Amazon.co.uk, including nearly $20 of airmail shipping from the other side of the planet. Ouch.
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Ugh: Juniper is turning up everywhere, and it's utter wank. Or at least it is if using Juniper and Virtella's network.
I was forced to move to it at work because it supports 64-bit Windows, whereas we had no 64-bit Cisco client available to us.
Fast forward to my next business trip to China and I find the Juniper based VPN can't cope with the packet loss connecting to the West from my hotel room. I fire 32 bit Windows XP in VMWare Player and connect the Cisco client, and hey, I can suddenly download the email the Outlook hasn't been able to get for 45 minutes, and I can finally check changes back in to Perforce, etc, etc. Using both VPNs concurrently, it's easy to get a direct comparison, and Virtella's support for us is non-existent.
Cisco connection:
Ping statistics for 10.2.11.15:
Packets: Sent = 100, Received = 96, Lost = 4 (4% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 175ms, Maximum = 466ms, Average = 183ms
Juniper connection:
Ping statistics for 10.2.11.15:
Packets: Sent = 100, Received = 55, Lost = 45 (45% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 195ms, Maximum = 530ms, Average = 210ms
Oh and the other annoyance with the Juniper client is the frequency connections fail due the client being refused by the gateway. The solution is to restart the Juniper service. If you don't have a local admin password, you have to freaking reboot.
You're talking too sanely. This sounds like a case of too many narcissistic people not taking enough responsibility for their own actions. If there's a rear-end collision because somebody braked approaching a junction then it means the person behind was following too closely, not paying sufficient attention, driving too quickly, etc, etc. Having driven in LA I can attest to a culture of tail-gating and trying to drive too quickly for the conditions. Up the penalties if people won't or can't take responsibility for their own actions.
Yeah, the .Net thing sounds like a storm in a teacup. Really! Whinging just shows a lack of understanding about Microsoft. This is a company that goes out of their way to maintain backwards compatibility. It also shows a lack of understanding of .Net, the benefits and the scale of deployment. Next story please...
That seems to be a new feature, thanks. Last time I looked at this the only way to do it was to create a new account. This after all the other crap to hookup my account for Find My iPhone.
It mystifies me why we're required to keep a credit card on file for using iTunes. Sure, it makes it easier to buy stuff, but I'd rather they didn't store it. I don't buy many apps any way, and certainly don't need a CC for free purchases. Bad move Apple.
Vonage... great idea; poor implementation (or maybe that's an inherent problem with the underlying protocols like SIP).
I was a Vonage customer when I lived in Canada. There was always terrible latency calling mobile phones, to the point where it would screw up conversations. And as somebody who travels a lot (like going to live elsewhere for four weeks or more at a time), I loved the idea of portability and location transparency offered by Vonage. Unfortunately it didn't work, which was a problem for those years I'd spend 15 weeks or more in the UK. Plugging the Vonage router in to a good internet connection in the UK still resulted in terrible audio sounding like a CD skipping.
Skype on the other hand has coped with just about everything I've thrown at it, including five months living in Shanghai with the terrible connectivity China has with the outside world. Conversations were acceptable to other Skype users and phones, with latency often in the 500-750ms.
If there's a choice of Skype's client or an alternative open source client, I'll probably be sticking with the Skype one, unless the open one has some other compelling reasons. Whilst Skype's UI is painful, it's generally better than the UI efforts of most open source software, and integrates better natively with whatever platform than most open source cross-platform apps. These are both areas where open source people seem to be clueless.
The /. crowd overstates the Microsoft security issues. I've been running a Microsoft based system for 12 years (IIS front-end, SQL Server back-end). It's a mature set of sites that haven't had any active development for five years. We're we're waiting for the traffic to die down enough to kill it (currently still 50,000 visits/day). The only issues we've had were Nimda back in the day... incompetent admin at the time allowed the servers to be infected twice (as well as the office network). Maybe we're safe now because we're still running Windows Server 2000 ;) Incidentally it's been cool seeing it go from 8 front line web servers on P3-500's at a co-lo to two VMs hosted at the office. Total downtime in all those years for maintenance out weighs the 24 hours due to security problems, and if we hadn't had a dickhead running the IT, we wouldn't have a problems with Nimda either. For a couple of years though we did have some other stuff running on LAMP... that was much more work maintaining and keeping locked down and secure.
Actually that is sadly changing. Increasing amounts of people are sending me messages via Facebook, which isn't connected to email and doesn't provide nearly the same power and features of even the crappest MUA.
Forget emulation AND keeping around old junk.... I bought Doom for the iPhone 4 the other day. The controls are a little harder, but I couldn't play the original on the Tube or walking down the street...
Why? How's that fair? If you were making an argument for education or healthcare, or anything else that benefits society through supporting you, then maybe. But not for commodities like game. It's discrimination at that point. If you can't afford games, find something else to do.
Or perhaps it goes back to the lack of social skills that many developers have.
This is why I find companies like GoToMeeting who break Alt-Tab functionality really really annoying. If you're on a single monitor, you need to be able to switch back and forth really efficiently.
Windows 7 brings some new ideas like the half-screen maximise, but it also has a really annoying habit of re-sorting the task list once you have a bunch of things running, breaking that mental stack I have of the 8 apps I'm currently switching back-and-forth between and forcing me to stop and start inspecting windows (especially if I'm working with say 3 Explorer windows to save me having to keep navigating back and forth in that app).
Windows 2.x on RN Nimbus 80186-based systems at school. It was pretty shit, but the first place I used Windows.
I've found that Microsoft Security Essentials has been working better than Symantec. I switched when the corporate standard (Symantec) allowed a bunch of people's machines to get infected, yet the MSFT tool caught the problem.
Don't child processes inherit elevated privs?
I run my domain account as a normal user. Any admin escalations end up being run as my local admin account (username + password required to escalate, rather than just clicked yes on the UAC prompt). All child processes then run as this local user, although I've never checked if they're lacking full admin rights.
Visual Studio 2005 and above is fine without admin privs. I do this everyday. There are some issues, such as developing COM objects and registering them the first time, but it is mostly ok as a regular user. VS2010 and almost aware of its limitations. VS2003 is another issue, but it's really broken on Win7 x64 and requires a bunch of compatibility features to be enabled to avoid weird build errors around bizarrely the PDB files.
The look of a "new" clean computer? What does that mean? It sounds like a case of OCD or something to me.
BTW, I didn't have to keep reinstalling Windows in the 80s or 90s either.
Errr, where did that come from? Shouldn't it be "an unarmed society"? Americans are rude; the British and Japanese are not. (sorry for expressing stereotypes, but there is some reality there)
Hang on, that sounds like heavy handed government intervention. Surely Somali offers a model of a better solution
I'm actually quite happy with Microsoft's OS X support. In fact Live Meeting (our corporate standard for conferencing and desktop sharing) works better on OS X than on Windows 7 x64!!! Whatever they do with Skype, I'm sure we'll see the technology being used to improve other existing Microsoft products.
And where is the open source alternative? And no, none of the SIP-based implementations I've ever seen work as well (especially in the face of latency and packet loss), nor have the user base (i.e. I don't have anybody to talk to). Probably this is a bigger problem for the small number of Linux on the desktop users, whilst the rest of us in the Windows and Mac worlds carry on unaffected.
That's actually a surprisingly short and a rather weak list of examples of EEE by Microsoft. How would that compare to other companies large companies?
I get no spam from Skype. Dunno what you're doing. It's the best and most universal tool for communication. The UI is utter wank though... maybe worse the same people who designed eBay with it's plethora of fonts and colours. Ugh. Microsoft can't go wrong improving that, and if they integrate some of the tech in to things like Office Communicator (our official corporate standard), then I will be happy. I can't see them completely canning UNIX support though as they do seem to be sort of support OS X at the moment.
Don't forget that the Aussie prices include 10% GST, whereas the Canadian ones are exclusive of tax. The difference is still big.
I wanted to the buy the Lonely Planet guide to New Zealand when I was in 'stralya a couple of years ago. $45 from the local book shop. $37 from Amazon.co.uk, including nearly $20 of airmail shipping from the other side of the planet. Ouch.