This won't really be a viable solution until they can size the laser down to the point where it would be practicle to mount it on something the size of...
Dude, the Cat 5000 was one of the original products from when Cisco bought Crescendo, circa 1993-4. At the time, a couple of fast ethernet ports for trunk connections was still an expensive option, and 10 Mbps switched to the desktop was state of the art (Over Cat-3 wiring, with "High Density" Amphenol connectors plugging into the switch blade).
The 4500 Series has a backplane capacity of 64 Gbps.
The 6500 Series has a backplane capacity of 256 Gbps.
For starters, we're not talking about "routers" at all, smart guy.
Second, your proximity to a wireless device doesn't mean you have administrative access even to the device you are associated with.
As has been pointed out repeatedly in this thread, access to the administrative interface of Cisco devices can easily be restricted through the use of a simple Access Control List.
I could give you the vty (telnet) and enable passwords to 100s of devices I've set up that are connected to the Internet right now, and there's not a damn thing you'd be able to do to them.
This entire thread is much ado about nothing, and most of the comments I've seen are either from the agenda driven, or tragically misinformed.
You've heard the expression "Everything is bigger in Texas," right, probably from some obnoxious Texan... Well a lot of Texans are shocked to learn that Alaska is roughly twice the size of Texas...
Hearing this, one especially boisterous Texas went to Alaska to see if it was true.
He showed up at a typical Alaskan lodge in the wilderness, and was awestruck by it's scale. He was hungry from his long journey, so he went into the restaraunt, and sat down. Soon after, a waitress approached and asked him what he wanted to drink.
"Whiskey," he said.
"What size? Small, Large, or Alaskan?"
"I'll take the Alaskan," he said, doubtful that it would impress him.
The waitress scurried off, and returned a few minutes later with a gigantic glass of whiskey, larger than the man's head. It easily contained a gallon and a half of booze.
She asked him what he was going to have to eat.
"I'd like one of your finest Steaks."
"How big a cut do you want? Small, Large, or the Alaskan?"
He was too proud to swallow his pride, so he once again asked for the Alaskan.
She went back to the kitchen, and when she returned, some 25 minutes later, she was wheeling a cart with a huge covered tray. She strained to lift the tray from the cart to the table, but managed, and then she removed the lid.
There, before the Texan, was the largest single piece of meat he had ever laid eyes upon. It must have been 25 pounds. It was easily 5 inches thick, and 24 inches across.
He gulped aloud, certain that he would be unable to finish the meal. With reservation, he dug into the steak and ate as much as he could. He'd barely eaten a quarter of it when he pushed himself away from the table, completely stuffed.
After drinking some more of his whiskey, and talking some time to digest, he needed to use the restroom. When the waitress returned, he asked when he might find the facilities.
She directed him down a long, dimly lit hallway, and told him it was the last door on the left.
He walked down the hall, which seemed to stretch on forever, particularly in his bloated drunken state.
When he reached the end of the hall, he mistakenly chose the right hand door, rather than the left. He stepped through the darkened doorway and immediately fell into the lodge's indoor pool.
Having seen him take the wrong door, the waitress appeared a moment later, reached through the doorway, and turned on the lights.
In a moment of panic, the Texan, sloshing around treading water screamed, "For the love of God, don't FLUSH IT!"
In our network, we've got our WiFi outside the firewall, and we wireless users utilize the VPN for internal connectivity. Works great, and you can hardly tell you're not wired to a switchport.
I have deployed numerous WiFi networks in corporate environments...
Rather than succumbing to the hassle of the various emerging authentication schemes, I've had good luck in convincing my clients to deploy their WiFi networks behind a VPN concentrator. (Or in cases where they wanted WiFi internet access for guests, putting the WiFi outside their firewall, and having the corporate users come in through a VPN concentrator.)
Improper use of the apostrohpe notwithstanding, it's not a "technology that needs to be kept cheap and readily available."
It's simply a more efficient Transport protocol (Layer-4). We're talking about an addition to the TCP/IP protocol stack, not a piece of machinery. It's a software change.
It really depends on how committed you are to the project...
There's a Canadian satellite company that's carrying the East and West coast feeds for the major US networks, in Hi-Def. If you go to the AVS forums, you can get their information. There are a number of resellers for that service here in the US.
The people that are using it have good things to say. Equipment is the same as Dish network.
Satellite does offer some HD, but not as much as I would like.
DirecTV offers HBO, Showtime, ESPN, and some others (Including some PPV; Total of like 9 channels).
They lack local networks in HD though, and that's a gripe I've got. It's a bandwidth issue on the satellites. They simply can't carry all of the local networks with their current capacity.
Yes, the installation monkey aligned the dish in such a way that they had a signal on the day he came and went. That's just so they would sign the form, saying that it was correctly installed.
Have them align it correctly, or get someone else to do it for them. A couple of degrees off in either axis (Or worse, both axis) can make all the difference in the world.
When my DirecTV dish was first installed, I had transponder strengths in the mid-60s. When I realigned the dish myself, most of my transponders are now in the high 80s - low 90s.
I haven't had an outage since. Rain-fade almost never occurs with a properly aligned dish.
I agree, but the lack of "3rd party inertia" could conceivably have been adressed by allowing fusion candidates, which would have allowed "similair in belief" 3rd parties (Such as Libertarians and Consitutionalists, or NoTaxers, what have you) to pool their collective interests more easily.
There are a number of "Libertarian" splinter parties that all lean (or claim to) the same way. Sure, one answer is for the LP to reincorporate the splinter groups, but fusion candidates allowed for an option short of direct unification. (Not that it would have changed anything....5% is not much different from.6%.)
My objection to the SC decision was simply that there are no provisions for party politics in the Constitution whatsoever, much less a two-party system.
It is not within the government's delegated powers to determine how political parties choose their candidates, nor is it within there powers to prevent a candidate from representing more than one party.
SC Justices are supposed to above party politics (How's that for idealistic naivete?), but short of that, they have nothing to fear from the decisions they make either way... They're appointed for life (That's one of the SC's checks against the Executive and Legislative branches, that they can't be fired for invalidating goofy laws passed by the Congress, or signed into law by the President.).
Democrats and Republicans at the time were pleased with the decision (naturally), and quotes were to the effect of:
"This is a victory for America, helping to preserve our Two-party system."
My point is "what two-party system?" The two-party system is simply what we're used to, but it's not established by the Constitution. It's happenstance, and an unfortunate one at that.
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Oh, I dunno...
Frickin' Sharks.
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I'm all about the acronyms, but sheesh...
The 4500 Series has a backplane capacity of 64 Gbps.
The 6500 Series has a backplane capacity of 256 Gbps.
Cisco's password recovery procedure can be disabled from Rommon, making the "configuration bypass" procedure non-functional.
Second, your proximity to a wireless device doesn't mean you have administrative access even to the device you are associated with.
As has been pointed out repeatedly in this thread, access to the administrative interface of Cisco devices can easily be restricted through the use of a simple Access Control List.
I could give you the vty (telnet) and enable passwords to 100s of devices I've set up that are connected to the Internet right now, and there's not a damn thing you'd be able to do to them.
This entire thread is much ado about nothing, and most of the comments I've seen are either from the agenda driven, or tragically misinformed.
You've heard the expression "Everything is bigger in Texas," right, probably from some obnoxious Texan... Well a lot of Texans are shocked to learn that Alaska is roughly twice the size of Texas...
Hearing this, one especially boisterous Texas went to Alaska to see if it was true.
He showed up at a typical Alaskan lodge in the wilderness, and was awestruck by it's scale. He was hungry from his long journey, so he went into the restaraunt, and sat down. Soon after, a waitress approached and asked him what he wanted to drink.
"Whiskey," he said.
"What size? Small, Large, or Alaskan?"
"I'll take the Alaskan," he said, doubtful that it would impress him.
The waitress scurried off, and returned a few minutes later with a gigantic glass of whiskey, larger than the man's head. It easily contained a gallon and a half of booze.
She asked him what he was going to have to eat.
"I'd like one of your finest Steaks."
"How big a cut do you want? Small, Large, or the Alaskan?"
He was too proud to swallow his pride, so he once again asked for the Alaskan.
She went back to the kitchen, and when she returned, some 25 minutes later, she was wheeling a cart with a huge covered tray. She strained to lift the tray from the cart to the table, but managed, and then she removed the lid.
There, before the Texan, was the largest single piece of meat he had ever laid eyes upon. It must have been 25 pounds. It was easily 5 inches thick, and 24 inches across.
He gulped aloud, certain that he would be unable to finish the meal. With reservation, he dug into the steak and ate as much as he could. He'd barely eaten a quarter of it when he pushed himself away from the table, completely stuffed.
After drinking some more of his whiskey, and talking some time to digest, he needed to use the restroom. When the waitress returned, he asked when he might find the facilities.
She directed him down a long, dimly lit hallway, and told him it was the last door on the left.
He walked down the hall, which seemed to stretch on forever, particularly in his bloated drunken state.
When he reached the end of the hall, he mistakenly chose the right hand door, rather than the left. He stepped through the darkened doorway and immediately fell into the lodge's indoor pool.
Having seen him take the wrong door, the waitress appeared a moment later, reached through the doorway, and turned on the lights.
In a moment of panic, the Texan, sloshing around treading water screamed, "For the love of God, don't FLUSH IT!"
Bronto-Burgers or Bust!
It's a SPACE STATION!
I'll take any opportunity to insert a quote from Eddie Izzard.
What are you guys using for VPN connectivity?
Rather than succumbing to the hassle of the various emerging authentication schemes, I've had good luck in convincing my clients to deploy their WiFi networks behind a VPN concentrator. (Or in cases where they wanted WiFi internet access for guests, putting the WiFi outside their firewall, and having the corporate users come in through a VPN concentrator.)
This is a far simpler, and equally secure method.
Improper use of the apostrohpe notwithstanding, it's not a "technology that needs to be kept cheap and readily available."
It's simply a more efficient Transport protocol (Layer-4). We're talking about an addition to the TCP/IP protocol stack, not a piece of machinery. It's a software change.
That was Space Cowboys, tool.
Is that bad?
There's a Canadian satellite company that's carrying the East and West coast feeds for the major US networks, in Hi-Def. If you go to the AVS forums, you can get their information. There are a number of resellers for that service here in the US.
The people that are using it have good things to say. Equipment is the same as Dish network.
DirecTV offers HBO, Showtime, ESPN, and some others (Including some PPV; Total of like 9 channels).
They lack local networks in HD though, and that's a gripe I've got. It's a bandwidth issue on the satellites. They simply can't carry all of the local networks with their current capacity.
Yes, the installation monkey aligned the dish in such a way that they had a signal on the day he came and went. That's just so they would sign the form, saying that it was correctly installed.
Have them align it correctly, or get someone else to do it for them. A couple of degrees off in either axis (Or worse, both axis) can make all the difference in the world.
When my DirecTV dish was first installed, I had transponder strengths in the mid-60s. When I realigned the dish myself, most of my transponders are now in the high 80s - low 90s.
I haven't had an outage since. Rain-fade almost never occurs with a properly aligned dish.
Had a pretty avid fanbase, and from a quick googling, looks like there are people still using it.
Here's the new project page...
Doing so, with an embedded URL: $10
Fucking up the spelling of "Engineering" while forming your smarmy reply: $10
Failing to observe that the previous AC was making a joke: Priceless
The Book of Armaments?
Just try to grok the fullness of that!
There are a number of "Libertarian" splinter parties that all lean (or claim to) the same way. Sure, one answer is for the LP to reincorporate the splinter groups, but fusion candidates allowed for an option short of direct unification. (Not that it would have changed anything... .5% is not much different from .6%.)
My objection to the SC decision was simply that there are no provisions for party politics in the Constitution whatsoever, much less a two-party system.
It is not within the government's delegated powers to determine how political parties choose their candidates, nor is it within there powers to prevent a candidate from representing more than one party.
SC Justices are supposed to above party politics (How's that for idealistic naivete?), but short of that, they have nothing to fear from the decisions they make either way... They're appointed for life (That's one of the SC's checks against the Executive and Legislative branches, that they can't be fired for invalidating goofy laws passed by the Congress, or signed into law by the President.).
Democrats and Republicans at the time were pleased with the decision (naturally), and quotes were to the effect of:
"This is a victory for America, helping to preserve our Two-party system."
My point is "what two-party system?" The two-party system is simply what we're used to, but it's not established by the Constitution. It's happenstance, and an unfortunate one at that.