Put your routing infrastructure on cheap commodity embedded hardware. The unreliable parts of cheap hardware are disks, fans and the like. So you use embedded components without moving parts and redundancy, you have the reliability of Cisco for 1/10th of the price.
Hell, even without redundancy, cheap equipment is often reliable... We have $29 netgear access points that have uptimes in excess of 18 months.
Read the Google filesystem paper: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=9454 50
Google designed a massive enterprise storage solution for their needs based on crap hardware that is not only more likely to fail, but <i>expected</i> to fail.
You're absolutely correct! What major reasearch lab would ditch their multi-million dollar SGI Origin supercomputing clusters for low cost Lintel hardware?
I can stake my entire enterprise on proven software that costs $15,000+ for a workstation and $300,000+ for a server, or Linux... being a systems programmer for a large company I can say it will never happen.
The result of XORP & similar technology will be a decentralization of networks. If you look at a typical enterprise network, the backbone of that network will be a single "enterprise" (ie. expensive) Layer-3 switch from a company like Extreme, Foundry, Cisco or whatever.
Those switches are cost-effective because of the needlessly high cost of low-end equipment.
If supported, flexible & cheap routing becomes a reality, you'll see clouds of cheap-commodity level hardware replace big networking iron... just as Linux displaced Solaris, HP-UX and AIX.
So that's why everyone says that sociology is a waste of time!
I never understood why peons sitting at a desk all day feel superior to people doing physical or skilled work.
My neighbor is a plumber and makes twice what I do. (I'm not exactly struggling either) His wife can afford to stay home with the kids and he gives & receives favors so that his home improvements are free.
"Just use one of the existing, though inadequate, products if you're too lazy to code yourself (and you obviously know how to code since I do)."...Or pay someone who can code to do so. Hence, Microsoft Outlook is on 99% of business desktops.
The Microsoft tools do detect whether proper versions of Windows are present.
What probably happened is that the genius who developed the upgrade package with Tivoli/Altris/Unicenter/etc did something before executing the Microsoft installer.
I've worked pretty extensively with Tivoli tools. If you allow someone who is dumb, incapable or too disgruntled to work with any management tool like that... you have a problem.
We want everything, and want it for free. We could use the free tools available, but they aren't stable enough and we're too lazy to help develop the free product.
I need a free solution that does everything! Someone write one for me!
Ballistic missile defense makes alot more sense today than it did during the Soviet era.
The Soviets had something like 12,000 warheads pointed at the US. A ballistic missile system that intercepted 98% of them (which is nothing like the actual ABM system being tested) would still leave two hundred or more nuclear detonations in the US.
If you consider the current threats from relatively poor states in the Middle East, North Korea or China, ballistic missile defence makes a hell of alot more sense. Even China only has a couple hundred ICBMs, and a credibile defence renders those launchers obsolete.
The popular notion that the demise of the Soviet Union has resulted in nuclear weapons going away is a dangerous illusion.
I don't know how you travel... but your best best is to get a good-sized targus wheeled bag... they have several models designed to hold a printer & laptop -- you'll easily fit a 2nd laptop in there.
As an added bonus, you won't have numb shoulders from lugging nearly 20 lbs of laptops & junk.
As the management of Enron, Global Crossing and Worldcom have aptly demonstrated, the interests of corporate management do not always sync with the interests of the shareholders.
Nobody is shackled to their desk, but workers are mentally held down by fear, uncertainty and doubt.
These firms create an environment that makes the employee feel somewhat responsible for the situation that they are in. That's why $7/hr workers at Wal-Mart find themselves working inside of a locked store at 1AM for no pay.
I and maybe you possess skills that allow us to be mercenaries and move from job to job with little problem. The vast majority of people do not have that luxury and should not be subjected to coersive and manipulative treatment to feed their families.
We also allow banks to engage in more credit expansion then the free market would allow, creating a boom-bust cycle. The boom is a period of malinvestment by entrepreneurs, thus there is much less investment capital during the bust. This decimates the job market and that is when everyone starts advocating all the new laws to protect employees. That's why it's almost pointless to discuss these kind of things without talking about the boom-bust cycle.
So employement practices should be laze-faire, but we should tell banks how much money to lend? Sounds like you are confused. Bankers and borrowers are adults, its nobody's business in your disturbed world.
And we essentially do not tax corporate income, unless the management of the corporation is incompetent. Small businesses can use LLCs or S Corps to pass-through income to the shareholders, and large companies generally have enough deductible expenses to eliminate most taxes. They can also use losses in previous years to offset profits indefinately.
Look at companies like GE and IBM. They haven't paid a material amount of income tax in decades.
What a jackass you are. The moronic opinions held by IT people, programmers and people like you about extreme overwork are proof that there's a difference between "training" and education.
That company is taking advantage of its employees fears and loyalties to destroy lives out of spite. Working people 80+ hours a week probably results in less work getting done than working 40 hour weeks anyway... these practices are about control & intimidation, not business.
The people running that company are living in a culture of fear and intimidation, where destroying marriages and turning 24 year olds into old men is a normal cost of business. That should not be acceptable in a civilized society.
Those people are empowered by idiots like you, who are too ignorant to see the forest for the trees or to give a shit about a fellow citizen and human being.
I'd venture to guess that you think that rape victims are assaulted because "they asked for it" too. Disgusting.
You are always going to have fraud.... and creating new, standardized voting procedures nationwide would simply introduce new, nationally standardized loopholes to exploit en masse. Giving more power to national political parties and the federal government will make it easier to cover up irregularities... nothing more.
The scary thing about the elections in Florida and Ohio is that the Democratic and Republican National Committees produced "manuals" about how to manipulate the system in those states. If you keep everything local, the system stays honest because you are keeping things on a personal level.
The other scary thing was these crazy 527 organizations encouraging voter fraud by paying for voter registrations. These "registration drives" are effectively denial of service attacks against local boards of elections and make it much easier to commit voting fraud.
Legislation strictly limiting the aid that 527's and national party committees can provide to local parties would eliminate most of the widespread fraud without fundamental changes to the system.
The other stuff like de-marginalizing third parties is something that you only hear on blogs and message boards. Its a distraction from the real issue and really isn't that relevant. Perot proved in 1992 that if you present a platform and promote it, the voters will follow.
The Libertarian and Green parties aren't marginalized because voters are afraid to vote for them, but because they're candidates are unknown or too screwy to attract votes.
Says the western jackass who'd cry without the low-cost conveniences that the cheap oil economy provides.
The problem with people like you caught up in idealology is that you don't think of the big picture. You'd be selling apples on the street if the US pulled out of the middle east. And your precious arab children would be living under an fundamentalist theocracy.
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Put your routing infrastructure on cheap commodity embedded hardware. The unreliable parts of cheap hardware are disks, fans and the like. So you use embedded components without moving parts and redundancy, you have the reliability of Cisco for 1/10th of the price.
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Hell, even without redundancy, cheap equipment is often reliable... We have $29 netgear access points that have uptimes in excess of 18 months.
Read the Google filesystem paper:
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=945
Google designed a massive enterprise storage solution for their needs based on crap hardware that is not only more likely to fail, but <i>expected</i> to fail.
The same can and will be done for networks.
...Timewarp 1997...
You're absolutely correct! What major reasearch lab would ditch their multi-million dollar SGI Origin supercomputing clusters for low cost Lintel hardware?
I can stake my entire enterprise on proven software that costs $15,000+ for a workstation and $300,000+ for a server, or Linux... being a systems programmer for a large company I can say it will never happen.
The result of XORP & similar technology will be a decentralization of networks. If you look at a typical enterprise network, the backbone of that network will be a single "enterprise" (ie. expensive) Layer-3 switch from a company like Extreme, Foundry, Cisco or whatever.
Those switches are cost-effective because of the needlessly high cost of low-end equipment.
If supported, flexible & cheap routing becomes a reality, you'll see clouds of cheap-commodity level hardware replace big networking iron... just as Linux displaced Solaris, HP-UX and AIX.
"And me, I chuckle at the inferiority of all of you with your week minds and simple thoughts."
I guess I can feel superior now, since I don't share your "weekness".
So that's why everyone says that sociology is a waste of time!
I never understood why peons sitting at a desk all day feel superior to people doing physical or skilled work.
My neighbor is a plumber and makes twice what I do. (I'm not exactly struggling either) His wife can afford to stay home with the kids and he gives & receives favors so that his home improvements are free.
http://boson.cacr.caltech.edu:8888/
A Jini-based, self-discovering network monitoring tool. That's pretty damn cool too.
And I thought that Jini was totally ignored after I bought "Jini in a Nutshell" for $0.50 at a church book sale!
"Just use one of the existing, though inadequate, products if you're too lazy to code yourself (and you obviously know how to code since I do)." ...Or pay someone who can code to do so. Hence, Microsoft Outlook is on 99% of business desktops.
Some IBM desktops (probably HP & Dells too) can be booted against a network device remotely using wake on lan.
They probably had the capability to do that with newer machines... but the older machines need to be touched by hand.
The Microsoft tools do detect whether proper versions of Windows are present.
What probably happened is that the genius who developed the upgrade package with Tivoli/Altris/Unicenter/etc did something before executing the Microsoft installer.
I've worked pretty extensively with Tivoli tools. If you allow someone who is dumb, incapable or too disgruntled to work with any management tool like that... you have a problem.
We want everything, and want it for free. We could use the free tools available, but they aren't stable enough and we're too lazy to help develop the free product.
I need a free solution that does everything! Someone write one for me!
If you're not 1099, you're not a contractor... your a body-shop employee getting screwed out of 40% or more of your billing.
The actual number doesn't really matter... the idea is that it is an unacceptably large number.
Ballistic missile defense makes alot more sense today than it did during the Soviet era.
The Soviets had something like 12,000 warheads pointed at the US. A ballistic missile system that intercepted 98% of them (which is nothing like the actual ABM system being tested) would still leave two hundred or more nuclear detonations in the US.
If you consider the current threats from relatively poor states in the Middle East, North Korea or China, ballistic missile defence makes a hell of alot more sense. Even China only has a couple hundred ICBMs, and a credibile defence renders those launchers obsolete.
The popular notion that the demise of the Soviet Union has resulted in nuclear weapons going away is a dangerous illusion.
The web is very young and held back by the Microsoft monopoly, which does little work to make IE an application platform.
The small business market is a vertical market that centers around applications needed for general business administration and specialized needs.
Linux needs some widely recognized accounting packages (ie Quickbooks) to attract the general market.
The web-browser is the real secret -- porting applications to Linux/Unix still locks you into a platform... and why would you do that?
I don't know how you travel... but your best best is to get a good-sized targus wheeled bag... they have several models designed to hold a printer & laptop -- you'll easily fit a 2nd laptop in there.
As an added bonus, you won't have numb shoulders from lugging nearly 20 lbs of laptops & junk.
I don't know where you were in 1998, but IE 4 blew Netscape away. Netscape responded initially by planning a rewrite in Java (ha!)
There are literally thousands of real E450's lying about for a song... here's a link to a base system for $450:
http://www.eli.com/index.cfm?c=31&a=category
As the management of Enron, Global Crossing and Worldcom have aptly demonstrated, the interests of corporate management do not always sync with the interests of the shareholders.
Nobody is shackled to their desk, but workers are mentally held down by fear, uncertainty and doubt.
These firms create an environment that makes the employee feel somewhat responsible for the situation that they are in. That's why $7/hr workers at Wal-Mart find themselves working inside of a locked store at 1AM for no pay.
I and maybe you possess skills that allow us to be mercenaries and move from job to job with little problem. The vast majority of people do not have that luxury and should not be subjected to coersive and manipulative treatment to feed their families.
The dev is busy writing a few lines of buggy code.
I've been a well-paid programmer for several years. I have never accepted a job where I was expected to work uncompensated overtime.
I did work for a company almost as shitty as EA as a contractor, and built my home on the overtime money that I was paid.
You sound confused.
We also allow banks to engage in more credit expansion then the free market would allow, creating a boom-bust cycle. The boom is a period of malinvestment by entrepreneurs, thus there is much less investment capital during the bust. This decimates the job market and that is when everyone starts advocating all the new laws to protect employees. That's why it's almost pointless to discuss these kind of things without talking about the boom-bust cycle.
So employement practices should be laze-faire, but we should tell banks how much money to lend? Sounds like you are confused. Bankers and borrowers are adults, its nobody's business in your disturbed world.
And we essentially do not tax corporate income, unless the management of the corporation is incompetent. Small businesses can use LLCs or S Corps to pass-through income to the shareholders, and large companies generally have enough deductible expenses to eliminate most taxes. They can also use losses in previous years to offset profits indefinately.
Look at companies like GE and IBM. They haven't paid a material amount of income tax in decades.
What a jackass you are. The moronic opinions held by IT people, programmers and people like you about extreme overwork are proof that there's a difference between "training" and education.
That company is taking advantage of its employees fears and loyalties to destroy lives out of spite. Working people 80+ hours a week probably results in less work getting done than working 40 hour weeks anyway... these practices are about control & intimidation, not business.
The people running that company are living in a culture of fear and intimidation, where destroying marriages and turning 24 year olds into old men is a normal cost of business. That should not be acceptable in a civilized society.
Those people are empowered by idiots like you, who are too ignorant to see the forest for the trees or to give a shit about a fellow citizen and human being.
I'd venture to guess that you think that rape victims are assaulted because "they asked for it" too. Disgusting.
You are always going to have fraud.... and creating new, standardized voting procedures nationwide would simply introduce new, nationally standardized loopholes to exploit en masse. Giving more power to national political parties and the federal government will make it easier to cover up irregularities... nothing more.
The scary thing about the elections in Florida and Ohio is that the Democratic and Republican National Committees produced "manuals" about how to manipulate the system in those states. If you keep everything local, the system stays honest because you are keeping things on a personal level.
The other scary thing was these crazy 527 organizations encouraging voter fraud by paying for voter registrations. These "registration drives" are effectively denial of service attacks against local boards of elections and make it much easier to commit voting fraud.
Legislation strictly limiting the aid that 527's and national party committees can provide to local parties would eliminate most of the widespread fraud without fundamental changes to the system.
The other stuff like de-marginalizing third parties is something that you only hear on blogs and message boards. Its a distraction from the real issue and really isn't that relevant. Perot proved in 1992 that if you present a platform and promote it, the voters will follow.
The Libertarian and Green parties aren't marginalized because voters are afraid to vote for them, but because they're candidates are unknown or too screwy to attract votes.
The system works, let it be.
Nobody wants a fiasco in their state, so the states are individually reforming the system to avoid a situation like the one in Florida in 2000.
It takes time, anything involving government does.
The last thing that we need is yet another massive Federal program with arbritrary rules and unfunded mandates.
Says the western jackass who'd cry without the low-cost conveniences that the cheap oil economy provides.
The problem with people like you caught up in idealology is that you don't think of the big picture. You'd be selling apples on the street if the US pulled out of the middle east. And your precious arab children would be living under an fundamentalist theocracy.