Does the SEC filing mention whether theses are datacenter boxes or employee workstations? Beyond that, do they take into account storage array costs, telco equipment, etc? Not that I don't love speculating about the awe that is the google datacenter, but an SEC filing seems like a fairly inaccurate, roundabout way to make an assumption about cluster nodes . . .
Whatever solution you choose, the ONLY thing that will ensure good quality if you do run video over an IP network is QoS. While average load won't squash a tv-quality signal, little spikes here and there will. Quality of service standards will 'reserve' a portion of that backbone for your video. Low Latency Queuing (LLQ) QoS is probably your best bet if the video is time sensitive. Keep in mind, however, that even though you may have a gigabit backbone, your network edge probably hums to the tune of only 100Meg, with gigabit aggregation. Your video will be limited by this more than the backbone.
On a seperate note, your school (most likely) has dark fiber. When an institution trenches MILES Of fiber, they don't just pull a single strand through and then call it a day. That would be like building a 4 car garage to house your bicycle. They pull multiple bundles, each bundle containing over a dozen pairs. SOME of these pairs HAD to be allocated for video usage - talk to your physical plant people and light up some of that unused fiber. Once you terminate an unused strand it can be used for any purpose later, so even if your project is only temporary the school does not 'lose' said strand. You get your studio, higher-ups get the satisfaction of a slightly higher return on investment and the school paper can write a cheesy story about it.
At the time I was working at a Network Operations Center in central Jersey. Minutes before close of business, I was on the phone debugging a performance issue with a provider in Manhattan. Both of us simultaneously said "Oh crap" when our lights respectively dimmed.
At that moment we didn't know that our power issues were one in the same, but it should have been a sign of things to come. While all of our important devices are on UPS, we had probably 800 or so switches reboot at the same time. Even given a 99% survival rating thats 8 switches spread out across the state that needed in-person care. Not a fun day.
The question posed by the author is irrelevant. The mere fact that he's contemplating DDR or CS as viable communication options has already doomed the relationship.
I've found that Certifications are most valuable when you plan to apply to or already work for a company who is a 'partner' of the certification company. For example, 'Cisco partner' companies have some sort of quota they need to fill of cisco-certified engineers in order to retain their partner status. There's most likely a similar setup with microsoft partners. If you're already working for such a company, a cert or two is a good idea as (all things being equal) un-certed employees will get dropped before you during lean times.
A cert also shows that you're willing to stay current with the technologies you work with. When a higher-level position opens up a cert can get you promoted over the guy in the cube next door. Combining a cert with frequent industry conferences seems to be the ticket to management from where I sit.
People are weighing in with mostly bad news about how well these new drivers work.
Surprise Surprise! Hasn't anyone yet realized that Nvidia's 'driver updates' are analagous to 'new features' in MSoffice or the ever-increasing memory footprint of explorer in windows? By growing in size and (by default) forcing new features that your card usually cant handle, they convince you that last year's $400 AGP wondercard needs to be replaced yet again. They have grown exponentially in bells, whistles, background processes and systray apps for the last 3 or 4 years and will (I'm sure) continue to do so for the forseeable future.
Doesn't anyone find it odd that they reccomend the SAME drivers for an 8mb TNT card and a 256mb quadra or FX? The latest windows drivers are larger (8.5 Mb) than the amount of memory on the former!!
I just completed my own homebrew rack, and although it wasn't exactly done cheaply I did research most of the Diy options. The most promising solution I found was using bedframe rails to rack your equipment. They're strong, cheap and readily available in custom lengths at places like Home Depot. They can be mounted to a number of framing materials. ITU standard holes are fairly easy to drill, but threading can be a problem. fortunately you can just drill oversized holes and use cheap clip-on racknuts to mount all of your equipment.
Media Player 9 has had DRM options (defaulted ?) during the clickthrough installation since its release. I think more people will miss that then will install an unescessary windowsupdate patch . . .
I'm not completely familiar with the project - there's an "about this site" page, but no real mention of a license in regards to the php scripts being used. The author's link is on the about page - try emailing him.
Hope that helps and good luck sticking it to those bastards at efollet who, whether you know it yet or not, probably run your school's bookstore!
Just got this from the Abilene (Internet 2) Operations Center. Apparently this is significantlyi affecting at least the.edu side of the network:
Abilene Connectors and Participants,
As you're all probably painfully aware by now, a worm exploit of the Microsoft DCOM RPC vulnerability, W32/Blaster, was unleased on Monday August 11. Details regarding the vulnerability and exploit can be found at the references provided below.
Worm traffic on Abilene is very high, peaking at 7%+ of all packets on the network. We're performing an analysis of Abilene netflow data, and early this afternoon will provide a private communication to sites that are sourcing a large amount of worm traffic.
Recommendations for network border filtering are included the CERT W32/Blaster advisory, http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-20.html. Filters should be defined as input and output - to protect yourselves and to protect from infecting others.
Abilene Connectors, please pass this communication on to your Participants.
References:
Microsoft DCOM RPC:
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-16.html
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN- 2003-0352
I wouldn't dare reformat a work machine with another OS. The feasibility isn't the problem - it's the wrath of an angry sysadmin that is. I would like to keep my job in this economy.
I DO, however, frequently boot my machine with knoppix. Most corporate IT environments prevent users from installing their own software - but Knoppix has pretty much every app I need. I sacrifice local file storage and some embedded data like PIM stuff, but its just more comfortable and doesn't raise the ire of the lesser IT geeks.
Will they, as opposed to the purple monkey people, have to pay damages though? One could argue that knowing the outcome of the above case meant they KNEW that what they were doing was illegal.
Either way I dont care, doubleclick is dev/nulled out in my hosts file:).
Here's the reccomendation for a temporary workaround using ACls:
Cisco recommends that all IOS devices which process IPv4 packets be configured to block traffic directed to the router from any unauthorized source with the use of Access Control Lists (ACLs). Legitimate traffic is defined as management protocols such as telnet, snmp or ssh, and configured routing protocols from explicitly allowed peers. All other traffic destined to the device should be blocked at the input interface.
Does "A rare sequence of crafted IPv4 packets sent directly to the device" mean a sequence utilizing one of these three protocols? If so then frigging tell us! If not, this is just a vague precautionary warning that really won't stop any user inside the network from exploiting the bug.
The TRUE details of the bug, including which protocol it uses, would help us put a nail in the coffin regarding the ACL workaround, but the Cisco bug tool isn't returning any information for the bugs they're talking about - specifically CSCea02355 and CSCdz71127.
Re:cheaper version of the same watch for $179
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Not quite as cool looking
They also have another model that looks (basically) exactly the same as the fossil one for $199. Its in this months Maxim or stuff or some generic mens non-boobies magazine. And yes, this was advertised last year for like $149. Way to double the price on us Fossil:(.
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That's why you have to pick a real distro like... Slackware. That makes your fellow geeks take notice and salute you.
Except you wont notice that salute, because youll be too busy looking at man pages. I ran slack for three years - Gentoo is just superior in my opinion. Most software is available through the ports system. Some builds are buggy but get fixed quickly. Dependency checking is no longer a headache and all software installs in a "locked down" but still usable configuration. The forced optimization via clean compile during install breathes new life into old hardware as long as you get your hardware flags right. The support forums are great and full of pretty damn knowledgable people. I love this distro and wouldn't go back to slack.
I realize Im biting at a troll - but hey Its Saturday . . .
Bloat will kill the increase in storage available - one way or the other. It'll be a 3gig version of word, or windows movie maker that will only save in raw, non-compressed video. Anything to drive the market. We've seen it with processor speeds, if HD prices keep dropping I'm sure well see it with storage as well.
Come on, is XP is SO far ahead of NT 4 that it requires 4x the ram? Of course not. But what MS reccomends, PC manufacturers will have to yield to.
Even though the treo and some small-screen MS smartphones are out there - I think slashdotters wont be happy until they have a full blown VOICE cdma CF-type-II expansion card that they can use with American network. Sure these new phone can do pictures and all, but they just aren't very customizable. People want to add cellphone capability to their much adored bleeding-edge PDA's.
Audiovox just released the RTM-8000 for the European crowd - a Tri-Band GPRS/GSM CF card that can be used with existing pocket PCs. How long until the US gets one? Is there already something like this out there for the states? Mind you I want to do VOICE, not just have a wifi modem that I can get overcharged for.
I don't see me - just set ads.doubleclick.net to 127.0.0.1 in your hosts file. Granted thats not the only host you have to add, but there are regularly maintained lists out there of good people to block:).
Slashdot Mirror
How hard is this one to figure out?
"late Sunday night a number of Sprint's DS-3 network cards were stolen from a Verizon colocation center at 38th St in Manhattan"
This can also be read:
"late Sunday night a number of MAJOR TELCO's DS-3 network cards were stolen from a RIVAL MAJOR TELCO colocation center at 38th St in Manhattan"
The reward money can be sent to my spam-obfuscated email addy.
Does the SEC filing mention whether theses are datacenter boxes or employee workstations? Beyond that, do they take into account storage array costs, telco equipment, etc? Not that I don't love speculating about the awe that is the google datacenter, but an SEC filing seems like a fairly inaccurate, roundabout way to make an assumption about cluster nodes . . .
Whatever solution you choose, the ONLY thing that will ensure good quality if you do run video over an IP network is QoS. While average load won't squash a tv-quality signal, little spikes here and there will. Quality of service standards will 'reserve' a portion of that backbone for your video. Low Latency Queuing (LLQ) QoS is probably your best bet if the video is time sensitive. Keep in mind, however, that even though you may have a gigabit backbone, your network edge probably hums to the tune of only 100Meg, with gigabit aggregation. Your video will be limited by this more than the backbone.
On a seperate note, your school (most likely) has dark fiber. When an institution trenches MILES Of fiber, they don't just pull a single strand through and then call it a day. That would be like building a 4 car garage to house your bicycle. They pull multiple bundles, each bundle containing over a dozen pairs. SOME of these pairs HAD to be allocated for video usage - talk to your physical plant people and light up some of that unused fiber. Once you terminate an unused strand it can be used for any purpose later, so even if your project is only temporary the school does not 'lose' said strand. You get your studio, higher-ups get the satisfaction of a slightly higher return on investment and the school paper can write a cheesy story about it.
At the time I was working at a Network Operations Center in central Jersey. Minutes before close of business, I was on the phone debugging a performance issue with a provider in Manhattan. Both of us simultaneously said "Oh crap" when our lights respectively dimmed.
At that moment we didn't know that our power issues were one in the same, but it should have been a sign of things to come. While all of our important devices are on UPS, we had probably 800 or so switches reboot at the same time. Even given a 99% survival rating thats 8 switches spread out across the state that needed in-person care. Not a fun day.
The question posed by the author is irrelevant. The mere fact that he's contemplating DDR or CS as viable communication options has already doomed the relationship.
There is nothing more we can do for him,
Is it like adopt a G5 day down at VT? Is there a background check or can I just pick up my tower and beat it to death once I walk outside with it?
I've found that Certifications are most valuable when you plan to apply to or already work for a company who is a 'partner' of the certification company. For example, 'Cisco partner' companies have some sort of quota they need to fill of cisco-certified engineers in order to retain their partner status. There's most likely a similar setup with microsoft partners. If you're already working for such a company, a cert or two is a good idea as (all things being equal) un-certed employees will get dropped before you during lean times.
A cert also shows that you're willing to stay current with the technologies you work with. When a higher-level position opens up a cert can get you promoted over the guy in the cube next door. Combining a cert with frequent industry conferences seems to be the ticket to management from where I sit.
As was mentioned earlier today . . .
My hosts file is already open and waiting to be editted. Lets see how "guaranteed" your advertising is then.
How about combining IPchains, MythTV and/or Freevo with MisterHouse and some X10 equipment on a commodity $300 1.5-2 Ghz machine?
Now if only Toshiba managed to come up with a version of the software that runs on 802.11 WiFi handhelds like the e800/e805
Toshiba does not provide support for it's customers and even re-negs on advertising promises. Many people will no longer be buying from them - including me, my family and any corporate/educational group that I work for and have purchasing decision power with.
People are weighing in with mostly bad news about how well these new drivers work.
Surprise Surprise! Hasn't anyone yet realized that Nvidia's 'driver updates' are analagous to 'new features' in MSoffice or the ever-increasing memory footprint of explorer in windows? By growing in size and (by default) forcing new features that your card usually cant handle, they convince you that last year's $400 AGP wondercard needs to be replaced yet again. They have grown exponentially in bells, whistles, background processes and systray apps for the last 3 or 4 years and will (I'm sure) continue to do so for the forseeable future.
Doesn't anyone find it odd that they reccomend the SAME drivers for an 8mb TNT card and a 256mb quadra or FX? The latest windows drivers are larger (8.5 Mb) than the amount of memory on the former!!
I just completed my own homebrew rack, and although it wasn't exactly done cheaply I did research most of the Diy options. The most promising solution I found was using bedframe rails to rack your equipment. They're strong, cheap and readily available in custom lengths at places like Home Depot. They can be mounted to a number of framing materials. ITU standard holes are fairly easy to drill, but threading can be a problem. fortunately you can just drill oversized holes and use cheap clip-on racknuts to mount all of your equipment.
Good luck!
Media Player 9 has had DRM options (defaulted ?) during the clickthrough installation since its release. I think more people will miss that then will install an unescessary windowsupdate patch . . .
Here, Courtesy of Rutgers.
A Member of the Rutgers University Student Linux Users Group has created just such a thing here at RU using PHP and MySQL. The site is hosted on our server here:
http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/bookswap/
I'm not completely familiar with the project - there's an "about this site" page, but no real mention of a license in regards to the php scripts being used. The author's link is on the about page - try emailing him.
Hope that helps and good luck sticking it to those bastards at efollet who, whether you know it yet or not, probably run your school's bookstore!
Just got this from the Abilene (Internet 2) Operations Center. Apparently this is significantlyi affecting at least the .edu side of the network:
- 2003-0352
Abilene Connectors and Participants,
As you're all probably painfully aware by now, a worm exploit of the Microsoft
DCOM RPC vulnerability, W32/Blaster, was unleased on Monday August 11. Details
regarding the vulnerability and exploit can be found at the references provided
below.
Worm traffic on Abilene is very high, peaking at 7%+ of all packets on the
network. We're performing an analysis of Abilene netflow data, and early this
afternoon will provide a private communication to sites that are sourcing a
large amount of worm traffic.
Recommendations for network border filtering are included the CERT W32/Blaster
advisory, http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-20.html. Filters should be
defined as input and output - to protect yourselves and to protect from
infecting others.
Abilene Connectors, please pass this communication on to your Participants.
References:
Microsoft DCOM RPC:
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-16.html
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN
W32/Blaster:
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-20.html
Regards,
XXXX XXXXXXX
Director, REN-ISAC
I wouldn't dare reformat a work machine with another OS. The feasibility isn't the problem - it's the wrath of an angry sysadmin that is. I would like to keep my job in this economy.
I DO, however, frequently boot my machine with knoppix. Most corporate IT environments prevent users from installing their own software - but Knoppix has pretty much every app I need. I sacrifice local file storage and some embedded data like PIM stuff, but its just more comfortable and doesn't raise the ire of the lesser IT geeks.
Precedent may have already lost them their case:
? tid=123&tid=99
:).
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/05/28/173228.shtml
Will they, as opposed to the purple monkey people, have to pay damages though? One could argue that knowing the outcome of the above case meant they KNEW that what they were doing was illegal.
Either way I dont care, doubleclick is dev/nulled out in my hosts file
AHhhhhhhhhhh you beat me to it! And I thought I was so clever!
Here's the reccomendation for a temporary workaround using ACls:
Cisco recommends that all IOS devices which process IPv4 packets be configured to block traffic directed to the router from any unauthorized source with the use of Access Control Lists (ACLs). Legitimate traffic is defined as management protocols such as telnet, snmp or ssh, and configured routing protocols from explicitly allowed peers. All other traffic destined to the device should be blocked at the input interface.
Does "A rare sequence of crafted IPv4 packets sent directly to the device" mean a sequence utilizing one of these three protocols? If so then frigging tell us! If not, this is just a vague precautionary warning that really won't stop any user inside the network from exploiting the bug.
The TRUE details of the bug, including which protocol it uses, would help us put a nail in the coffin regarding the ACL workaround, but the Cisco bug tool isn't returning any information for the bugs they're talking about - specifically CSCea02355 and CSCdz71127.
Not quite as cool looking
:(.
They also have another model that looks (basically) exactly the same as the fossil one for $199. Its in this months Maxim or stuff or some generic mens non-boobies magazine. And yes, this was advertised last year for like $149. Way to double the price on us Fossil
That's why you have to pick a real distro like... Slackware. That makes your fellow geeks take notice and salute you.
Except you wont notice that salute, because youll be too busy looking at man pages. I ran slack for three years - Gentoo is just superior in my opinion. Most software is available through the ports system. Some builds are buggy but get fixed quickly. Dependency checking is no longer a headache and all software installs in a "locked down" but still usable configuration. The forced optimization via clean compile during install breathes new life into old hardware as long as you get your hardware flags right. The support forums are great and full of pretty damn knowledgable people. I love this distro and wouldn't go back to slack.
I realize Im biting at a troll - but hey Its Saturday . . .
Bloat will kill the increase in storage available - one way or the other. It'll be a 3gig version of word, or windows movie maker that will only save in raw, non-compressed video. Anything to drive the market. We've seen it with processor speeds, if HD prices keep dropping I'm sure well see it with storage as well.
Come on, is XP is SO far ahead of NT 4 that it requires 4x the ram? Of course not. But what MS reccomends, PC manufacturers will have to yield to.
Even though the treo and some small-screen MS smartphones are out there - I think slashdotters wont be happy until they have a full blown VOICE cdma CF-type-II expansion card that they can use with American network. Sure these new phone can do pictures and all, but they just aren't very customizable. People want to add cellphone capability to their much adored bleeding-edge PDA's.
Audiovox just released the RTM-8000 for the European crowd - a Tri-Band GPRS/GSM CF card that can be used with existing pocket PCs. How long until the US gets one? Is there already something like this out there for the states? Mind you I want to do VOICE, not just have a wifi modem that I can get overcharged for.
I don't see me - just set ads.doubleclick.net to 127.0.0.1 in your hosts file. Granted thats not the only host you have to add, but there are regularly maintained lists out there of good people to block :).