Fair competition with China would mean adjusting their undervalued currency that allows their exports to expload at a 40% reduced cost. It's hard to compete with you start at that level.
That's just because you are a C programmer and C syntax ie Java and the like look familiar too you. If you used Perl since '76 (I know that's impossible) you would have similiar problems with C/++/Java. I have learned and use both languages and with experience comes readability.
Normal people think when their computer slows down it's because "it has all this stuff on it" - as if every additional program they install should load it more and so slow it down even when the program's not running.
They're on to something, it's called registry bloat and it's usually the reason I end up reinstalling. Also, it seems every other program you install these days has a background helper process to engage in file association wars or to just piss you off.
However, if you are careful with your machine and what you install, windows can be an incredibly productive work environment. IMNSHO, expert users can achieve common goals quicker with windows than linux because linux always needs hacking. It can do anything, but it always has a price. Windows is easy and consistent and I like that. The command line OTOH is extremely powerful and doesn't change like the GUI of the month. In the end, when the sh*t hits the fan, I reach for a windows box with putty installed.
This reminds me of the Grand Inquisitor in Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov, anyone ever read it? Jesus comes back to earth and his beliefs are so different from the the church's at the time that they put him to death for causing too much trouble. It's an incredible story, check it out here: Grand Inquisitor It starts off a little slow but I promise you won't be disappointed.
We also use Perfigo at our University and have had almost zero problems past the first week. I have a feeling the admins there either have their server misconfigured, without enough ram, or some other mistake that is making it crash because ours is rock solid without a reboot since August. As far as your GPL concerns, there may be some but I'm just concerned with the stability of the platform which has been great for us.
My sentiments exactly, I used to use linux on my desktop from about '97 until about '01 when I switched to Win2k. I was totally impressed with it after years of linux and previous 3.1 and '95 experiences. Win2k was stable as hell did what I needed perfectly. Today I run XP with tons of putty windows, outlook, and maxthon as my browser. I still live linux, but only on the console where I spent most of my time anyway, between that and restarting Netscape4.
Last time I looked at IPv6, it seemed there was no way to multi-home hosts to two or more ISPs. Of course, this capability is essential for IPv6 to succeed. BGP has scaled pretty well thus far, but it is impossible to support peering on IPv6 like it is done on today's internet due to the size of routing tables and it's heirarchical nature. Anyone familiar with this problem or know if any progress has been made?
Ever heard of Long Term Capital Management? They tried some sophisticated modeling in the late 90's, and at first it went great, but the Asian crisis wiped them out when their models fell apart. All modeling based on historical trends falls apart eventually. I tend to fall in to the camp that believes the mere act of predicting markets makes them less predictable.
I'm not sure about this, because I have two 1600x1200 displays, and I have a single DVI connector from the back of my FX5200(POS) that connects to a splitter cable that gives me two DVI connectors to connect both displays. What the above poster is talking about is the type of connector that I have, a 24-pin DVI that can drive two displays with a splitter, or theoretically, one dual display without. I once saw a page with all of the DVI connectors, and there must have been 8-10 different type of connectors. Some supported analog and digital, other just digital. Anyway, that's my thoughts. It's a still a very confusing technology.
Most of that fiber was between cities rather than in them. Metro fiber networks are just starting to come of age, as issues such as right of way, expense, termination costs, and number of existing utilities in the streets to avoid have made it very expensive (neighborhoods are different).
As for all the dark fiber (something as high as 90% of it), these lines were installed with the future in mind. If you are going through all the work to lay a cable with 12 strands in it, you make as well bump it up to 800 strands since the majority of the cost in laying the fiber is elsewhere.
This probably is a very good project for the opensource community, but it sure would be cool. I want to see an opensource version of the old SilentRunner product, now carried by Computer Associates.
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...in your humble opinion (not shared by many) AND solely if you want to run Windows. Not only do you have to run on a still inferior server OS, you are likely stuck there indefinitely. Nasty, and expensive in more than one way (dollars, lack of scalability, downtime, security issues...).
And with java, you have to stick with an inferior software version of the JVM because it 's lots of extra work to make it run on all JVMs. Besides, a minor point version difference can break your app. Yea, java is wonderfully portable, rather than different hardware machines, you have to worry about different software machines.
It's kind of funny that China gets enough foreign aid to "feed their people" that it could have paid for both their Space program and nuclear programs. The majority of that money comes from the US anyways, so in a way, we are paying for this and I don't see any reason to pay twice for something we did 30 years ago.
Speaking of ACPI, I have been having lots of problems. I can't get swsusp to work with to the 2.6.0-test9 kernel, nor can I get S3 support to work on my Fujitsu P5010 laptop (It never comes back). Oh how I wish I just had APM support back. Has anyone gotten swsusp to work? I've tried multiple patches to no avail and the builtin support seems to be broken? Anyone else have any experience with it on the latest kernels?
I would install an iptables box, possible a bridging firewall between the router and the switch. iptables can handle plenty of traffic with reasonably sized tables and scales better than acls on a router. Unless you are using gig connections, it should be alright with reasonable hardware, plus more configurable.
I wouldn't think the router would do any active scanning, that should be left to a seperate device. I would expect to router to be able to inspect traffic for signatures like an IDS, or how nbar works to block kazaa now on routers. I'm not sure about this, but I doubt the router will be doing any scanning itself, just listening.
I remember seeing something on the history channel on an engineering disasters show about the same thing happening in 1965. Supposedly some shoebox size box at a substation died and the substation automatically disconnected itself from the grid. I'm no power expert, but supposedly this caused generators at other stations to become overloaded and they disconnected themselves to avoid damage. This just kept cascading until the whole grid went down. I wouldn't be suprised to find out that the same sort of thing happened here. The system performed as designed, but no one imagined the consequences.
You also can't broadcast the universities data to the world. It's definately a balance, but there are solutions that can work without being too restrictive. We use Funk software's Odyssey server at our University, and it supports a wide range of authentication types(TLS, TTLS, LEAP, PEAP). We have managed to get 98% of our users online without any trouble. Cisco hardware works fine on most OS's (Linux, BSD, pocketpc). There is also an open source TLS authentication method, but that involves issueing client certificates.
Like I said before, there has to be some balance between security and academic freedom, but there must be some sort of security policy in any large wireless network. I think what the industry really needs is a standard rather than 5 or more different solutions with marginal advantages over one another. Then we can work on getting that standard supported everywhere (PEAP I hope). Until then, wireless security will always be hit or miss or none at all.
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While there are multiple solutions and types of 1x, they do seem to work together. We support EAP-TTLS, TLS, PEAP, and LEAP on our network just by enabling it on the server side. Mac address filtering would provide way to many headaches for the number of users we have to support. Fortunately, with Cisco hardware, they manage to support more OS's than most. As soon as there is an open source PEAP client, I don't even think it will be an issue anymore. That's seems to be the direction things are going considering future windows support.
Another feature of 1x is that it provides fairly good encryption through rotating keys. This is much better than 40/128bit encryption. In the end, it comes down to support issues and decent security. We have several linux/BSD users on our network but they all have to use cisco hardware. Other than the cost, it works great, but our network is 150+ APs, so this sort of solution might not work on a small scale.
I always found this picture interesting, projected world population growth in megacities from a CIA report called "Global Trends 2015." Check it out here. That picture never fails to blow my mind...
I was the same way. Any time I had a class in one of those "smart" classrooms, I found myself doing more searching and IMing than paying attention. Computers may be useful in some instances, but a computer on every desk is the WRONG approach. I always passed, but I know my grades suffered. I have learned a lot from the internet, but the classroom is not the place for this type of learning in my opinion.
I remember watching a show about the east german secret police, the stasi, collecting people's scent on some special cloth and storing it in a jar for years. Supposedly, they had millions of these and a bunch of trained german shepards. It was so good I heard, they could trace a person's path on the street up to an hour after they had walked it. Kind of scary...
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Fair competition with China would mean adjusting their undervalued currency that allows their exports to expload at a 40% reduced cost. It's hard to compete with you start at that level.
That's just because you are a C programmer and C syntax ie Java and the like look familiar too you. If you used Perl since '76 (I know that's impossible) you would have similiar problems with C/++/Java. I have learned and use both languages and with experience comes readability.
They're on to something, it's called registry bloat and it's usually the reason I end up reinstalling. Also, it seems every other program you install these days has a background helper process to engage in file association wars or to just piss you off.
However, if you are careful with your machine and what you install, windows can be an incredibly productive work environment. IMNSHO, expert users can achieve common goals quicker with windows than linux because linux always needs hacking. It can do anything, but it always has a price. Windows is easy and consistent and I like that. The command line OTOH is extremely powerful and doesn't change like the GUI of the month. In the end, when the sh*t hits the fan, I reach for a windows box with putty installed.
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This reminds me of the Grand Inquisitor in Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov, anyone ever read it? Jesus comes back to earth and his beliefs are so different from the the church's at the time that they put him to death for causing too much trouble. It's an incredible story, check it out here: Grand Inquisitor It starts off a little slow but I promise you won't be disappointed.
We also use Perfigo at our University and have had almost zero problems past the first week. I have a feeling the admins there either have their server misconfigured, without enough ram, or some other mistake that is making it crash because ours is rock solid without a reboot since August. As far as your GPL concerns, there may be some but I'm just concerned with the stability of the platform which has been great for us.
My sentiments exactly, I used to use linux on my desktop from about '97 until about '01 when I switched to Win2k. I was totally impressed with it after years of linux and previous 3.1 and '95 experiences. Win2k was stable as hell did what I needed perfectly. Today I run XP with tons of putty windows, outlook, and maxthon as my browser. I still live linux, but only on the console where I spent most of my time anyway, between that and restarting Netscape4.
Last time I looked at IPv6, it seemed there was no way to multi-home hosts to two or more ISPs. Of course, this capability is essential for IPv6 to succeed. BGP has scaled pretty well thus far, but it is impossible to support peering on IPv6 like it is done on today's internet due to the size of routing tables and it's heirarchical nature. Anyone familiar with this problem or know if any progress has been made?
Ever heard of Long Term Capital Management? They tried some sophisticated modeling in the late 90's, and at first it went great, but the Asian crisis wiped them out when their models fell apart. All modeling based on historical trends falls apart eventually. I tend to fall in to the camp that believes the mere act of predicting markets makes them less predictable.
I'm not sure about this, because I have two 1600x1200 displays, and I have a single DVI connector from the back of my FX5200(POS) that connects to a splitter cable that gives me two DVI connectors to connect both displays. What the above poster is talking about is the type of connector that I have, a 24-pin DVI that can drive two displays with a splitter, or theoretically, one dual display without. I once saw a page with all of the DVI connectors, and there must have been 8-10 different type of connectors. Some supported analog and digital, other just digital. Anyway, that's my thoughts. It's a still a very confusing technology.
Most of that fiber was between cities rather than in them. Metro fiber networks are just starting to come of age, as issues such as right of way, expense, termination costs, and number of existing utilities in the streets to avoid have made it very expensive (neighborhoods are different).
As for all the dark fiber (something as high as 90% of it), these lines were installed with the future in mind. If you are going through all the work to lay a cable with 12 strands in it, you make as well bump it up to 800 strands since the majority of the cost in laying the fiber is elsewhere.
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And with java, you have to stick with an inferior software version of the JVM because it 's lots of extra work to make it run on all JVMs. Besides, a minor point version difference can break your app. Yea, java is wonderfully portable, rather than different hardware machines, you have to worry about different software machines.
It's kind of funny that China gets enough foreign aid to "feed their people" that it could have paid for both their Space program and nuclear programs. The majority of that money comes from the US anyways, so in a way, we are paying for this and I don't see any reason to pay twice for something we did 30 years ago.
Speaking of ACPI, I have been having lots of problems. I can't get swsusp to work with to the 2.6.0-test9 kernel, nor can I get S3 support to work on my Fujitsu P5010 laptop (It never comes back). Oh how I wish I just had APM support back. Has anyone gotten swsusp to work? I've tried multiple patches to no avail and the builtin support seems to be broken? Anyone else have any experience with it on the latest kernels?
I would install an iptables box, possible a bridging firewall between the router and the switch. iptables can handle plenty of traffic with reasonably sized tables and scales better than acls on a router. Unless you are using gig connections, it should be alright with reasonable hardware, plus more configurable.
I wouldn't think the router would do any active scanning, that should be left to a seperate device. I would expect to router to be able to inspect traffic for signatures like an IDS, or how nbar works to block kazaa now on routers. I'm not sure about this, but I doubt the router will be doing any scanning itself, just listening.
I remember seeing something on the history channel on an engineering disasters show about the same thing happening in 1965. Supposedly some shoebox size box at a substation died and the substation automatically disconnected itself from the grid. I'm no power expert, but supposedly this caused generators at other stations to become overloaded and they disconnected themselves to avoid damage. This just kept cascading until the whole grid went down. I wouldn't be suprised to find out that the same sort of thing happened here. The system performed as designed, but no one imagined the consequences.
You also can't broadcast the universities data to the world. It's definately a balance, but there are solutions that can work without being too restrictive. We use Funk software's Odyssey server at our University, and it supports a wide range of authentication types(TLS, TTLS, LEAP, PEAP). We have managed to get 98% of our users online without any trouble. Cisco hardware works fine on most OS's (Linux, BSD, pocketpc). There is also an open source TLS authentication method, but that involves issueing client certificates.
Like I said before, there has to be some balance between security and academic freedom, but there must be some sort of security policy in any large wireless network. I think what the industry really needs is a standard rather than 5 or more different solutions with marginal advantages over one another. Then we can work on getting that standard supported everywhere (PEAP I hope). Until then, wireless security will always be hit or miss or none at all.
While there are multiple solutions and types of 1x, they do seem to work together. We support EAP-TTLS, TLS, PEAP, and LEAP on our network just by enabling it on the server side. Mac address filtering would provide way to many headaches for the number of users we have to support. Fortunately, with Cisco hardware, they manage to support more OS's than most. As soon as there is an open source PEAP client, I don't even think it will be an issue anymore. That's seems to be the direction things are going considering future windows support.
Another feature of 1x is that it provides fairly good encryption through rotating keys. This is much better than 40/128bit encryption. In the end, it comes down to support issues and decent security. We have several linux/BSD users on our network but they all have to use cisco hardware. Other than the cost, it works great, but our network is 150+ APs, so this sort of solution might not work on a small scale.
Why, that will only leave them with $44Billion in the bank. So long MSFT...
I always found this picture interesting, projected world population growth in megacities from a CIA report called "Global Trends 2015." Check it out here. That picture never fails to blow my mind...
Most Laotians don't even know their government exists.
I was the same way. Any time I had a class in one of those "smart" classrooms, I found myself doing more searching and IMing than paying attention. Computers may be useful in some instances, but a computer on every desk is the WRONG approach. I always passed, but I know my grades suffered. I have learned a lot from the internet, but the classroom is not the place for this type of learning in my opinion.
I remember watching a show about the east german secret police, the stasi, collecting people's scent on some special cloth and storing it in a jar for years. Supposedly, they had millions of these and a bunch of trained german shepards. It was so good I heard, they could trace a person's path on the street up to an hour after they had walked it. Kind of scary...