The article is somewhat unfair to Cisco. Their IOS software, like all software, has a clause in the EULA regarding the non-transferability of the license. This is also the case for practically all other software vendors out there.
Someone reminds me when, let's say Microsoft, provided you support for software after you transfered it (illegally) to another computer. This just never happened to me or to any of my accuintances as far as I know.
Hence product activation from software vendors to enfore this part of the EULA.
The only mechanism hardware vendors can have is to track serial numbers (Cisco) or Service Tags (Dell) and enforce entitlement at the device level.
It's been two hours that this story is up, yet only one single, trollish comment so far. I don't mean to criticize Ruby (I haven't even tried it) but it's clearly somewhat of an outcast (in the low-volume sense).
Well it is a bit late for that, but if you were a large datacenter hosting a lot of managed servers, wouldn't you consider low-power solutions such as....
"So, when Transmeta Corp. came along in early 2000 and announced a processor that was 85 percent to 90 percent of the mobile Pentium's performance with a fifth of the power consumption, it was a no-brainer," Hipp said.
The result was the RLX System 324, a blade configuration
that packs more punch into a smaller space than any other
server on the market?up to 336 blades in a single, 42-unit,
industry-standard rack (..)
It goes without saying that a box that necessitates 80-90% less power than an equivallent Intel or AMD, produces less heat. (from an older but insightful eWeek article.)
And to make it even better the whole setup is controlled by none other than linux.
Maybe the poster will be sued and have SCO lawyers sending nastigrams for protecting their IP rights since this is technically derivative work... Sorry, couldn't resist. Way too much S.C.O. FUD in the news the last few days.
Not in the traditional sense where router CPU goes to 100% and router starts dropping packets, essentially by flooding. You have a point, it's a DOS, just not like we know them.
Boss: Look what one of our engineers said to a reporter !
Dogbert: (reading) "Our technology is putrid, but we compensate by ignoring complaints."
Boss: You know what would be more fun than fixing those problems ?
Dogbert: WITCH-HUNT !!!
Actually, the proposed workaround works very well (it wouldn't be a workaround otherwise).
Don't misunderstand traffic going THROUGH the router with traffic directed TO the router. You probably want to control the latter because as a good netadmin you should know that this is good practise.
You don't understand: this isn't a DOS attack that Cisco is warning about.
Once the input queue is full of said packets, the router doesn't accept any more packets, then CPU utilization drops at 0% while the router idles waiting for more apckets (which of course never arrive once the device is blocked).
Actually, it has everything to do with signal strength. I believe that the poster of the comment to which you responded to, meant that indoors you can't just assume that the signal strength will diminish on a more or less linear scale (or whatever) with distance.
Take into account the thickness and materials of the floors and walls, the office furniture, the people inside packed lecture rooms, and you will understand what he meant. You cannot just assume that because signal from base station A is twice as strong as signal from base station B, that user is closer to B. It may be that there is some obstacle on the path to A weakening the signal, making it look loke user is several meters apart the triangulated position assumed from the signal strength alone.
Ideally the calculations should be done based on knowlege of how well Wifi signals transmits through various indoors obstacles, and with a detailed map of the premices. But I can't think of anyone in their right mind who would want to do that unless they had considerable resources.
Argonite is installed in the labs hosted at my employeer's, I think it's illegal now to use Halon 1301.
Search Google for Argonite and you will find such great links as this one. Transcript below for the clicking-impaired or just lazy:-)
Argonite - fighting fires nature's way More and more companies are today ensuring that environmental considerations play a major part when selecting a fire fighting system. So much so that Argonite, which consists entirely of naturally occurring gasses, has long been the solution of first choice for many industrial and commercial building occupiers.
Not only has Argonite zero Ozone Depleting Potential (ODP), it also contributes nothing towards global warming, thanks to a complete absence of hydrofluorocarbons-HFCs. At the same it is a gaseous fire suppressant that has an enviable 50-year track record.
The environmental answer: Argonite is a leading environmentally-friendly replacement for Halon 1301. An equal blend of nitrogen and argon, it produces no secondary combustion products and is particularly suitable for fighting fires in confined spaces. Because its molecular weight is close to that of air, it lingers longer when discharged to extinguish a fire. This reduces the need for hermetic sealing of a protected room - a process that can be very expensive and needs to be repeated every time structural changes are made.
Argonite is not prone to fogging, is non-toxic, non-corrosive, leaves no residue and is electrically non-conductive. This has led to it being successfully specified in applications where there is a need to avoid secondary damage by the fire fighting agent. Popular applications include computer and control rooms, tape and archive stores, electrical cabinets and switchgear compartments and around telecommunications equipment.
How Argonite Works Should a fire start, Argonite is injected rapidly into the room, reducing the oxygen level from the normal 21% to between 11% and 13%. This is too low for further combustion to take place, yet high enough to allow essential safety personnel to operate.
Argonite is suited to either total flooding or local application. When more than a single room or compartment is protected, GIELLE normally recommends that a central bank of Argonite cylinders is connected via diverter valves. This frequently proves to be the most cost effective and efficient solution. As a permanent gas working under high pressure with single-phase flow characteristics, complicated pipe networks can be installed.
Facilities requiring token-ring didn't wait for *BSD to implement drivers (which it doesn't if I understand your post correctly) but would have deployed something equivalent i.e. commercial unix of some sort, OS/2, even perhaps Linux...?
You obviously haven't been visiting a IBM facility lately. Call me troll or flamebait, but I was on assignment there for a couple of weeks and I was told to make sure to bring a PCMCIA token-ring card for my laptop, to get any sort of connectivity (which of course I did).
The funny thing there was that the token-ring network was so slow that the 56K modem integrated to my laptop was actually faster for accessing my email..... However the several hundreds employees still working there didn't have much of a choice. Remember, token-ring was very expensive and state-of-the-art 10 years ago.
The facility is now being migrated to a switched network deploying fast-ethernet, but planning and implementation will take months because the installed token-ring base is so huge.
Try this out ! I know that there are several versions out there, one of them specific to I.T. but I don't remember the link off-hand... Someone feeds this post through the B*S Bingo for some fun !
Well this has a fixed display of the area around Seattle. If you happen to live elsewhere, then a GPS is what you should look into for any sort of interactive navigation.
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Enough already with the SCO fud. Give them what they want least, ignorance.
So are they in RFC's, with telephone numbers, professionnal affiliations and everything.
Someone reminds me when, let's say Microsoft, provided you support for software after you transfered it (illegally) to another computer. This just never happened to me or to any of my accuintances as far as I know.
Hence product activation from software vendors to enfore this part of the EULA.
The only mechanism hardware vendors can have is to track serial numbers (Cisco) or Service Tags (Dell) and enforce entitlement at the device level.
It's been two hours that this story is up, yet only one single, trollish comment so far. I don't mean to criticize Ruby (I haven't even tried it) but it's clearly somewhat of an outcast (in the low-volume sense).
Come visit Cedra Point ! The mecca of roller-coasters with many of the biggest ones in the world ! Very nerdy stuff.
"So, when Transmeta Corp. came along in early 2000 and announced a processor that was 85 percent to 90 percent of the mobile Pentium's performance with a fifth of the power consumption, it was a no-brainer," Hipp said.
The result was the RLX System 324, a blade configuration that packs more punch into a smaller space than any other server on the market?up to 336 blades in a single, 42-unit, industry-standard rack (..)
It goes without saying that a box that necessitates 80-90% less power than an equivallent Intel or AMD, produces less heat. (from an older but insightful eWeek article.)
Maybe the poster will be sued and have SCO lawyers sending nastigrams for protecting their IP rights since this is technically derivative work ... Sorry, couldn't resist. Way too much S.C.O. FUD in the news the last few days.
Tous vos courriel sont appartenus de nous
What were you saying ? (works if you have a CCO login)
Geezus, I didn't realize that this also makes me a 10-years-something Linux user since I began using SLS before Slackwars was even released. Heh :)
Not in the traditional sense where router CPU goes to 100% and router starts dropping packets, essentially by flooding. You have a point, it's a DOS, just not like we know them.
Boss: Look what one of our engineers said to a reporter !
Dogbert: (reading) "Our technology is putrid, but we compensate by ignoring complaints."
Boss: You know what would be more fun than fixing those problems ?
Dogbert: WITCH-HUNT !!!
You can always contact the seller and ask them for the license :->
Actually, your post _is_ insightful and should motivate people out there to consider using IPv6 now... Hehehe...
Thinking about shutting down the Internet today ? I think I prefer to keep my job :-)
Don't misunderstand traffic going THROUGH the router with traffic directed TO the router. You probably want to control the latter because as a good netadmin you should know that this is good practise.
Once the input queue is full of said packets, the router doesn't accept any more packets, then CPU utilization drops at 0% while the router idles waiting for more apckets (which of course never arrive once the device is blocked).
Actually, it has everything to do with signal strength. I believe that the poster of the comment to which you responded to, meant that indoors you can't just assume that the signal strength will diminish on a more or less linear scale (or whatever) with distance.
Take into account the thickness and materials of the floors and walls, the office furniture, the people inside packed lecture rooms, and you will understand what he meant. You cannot just assume that because signal from base station A is twice as strong as signal from base station B, that user is closer to B. It may be that there is some obstacle on the path to A weakening the signal, making it look loke user is several meters apart the triangulated position assumed from the signal strength alone.
Ideally the calculations should be done based on knowlege of how well Wifi signals transmits through various indoors obstacles, and with a detailed map of the premices. But I can't think of anyone in their right mind who would want to do that unless they had considerable resources.
Exactly. Zion (and co.) is a matrix inside the matrix. That also explains Neo's power to stop the last group of sentinels and why he "feels" them.
Search Google for Argonite and you will find such great links as this one. Transcript below for the clicking-impaired or just lazy :-)
Argonite - fighting fires nature's way
More and more companies are today ensuring that environmental considerations play a major part when selecting a fire fighting system. So much so that Argonite, which consists entirely of naturally occurring gasses, has long been the solution of first choice for many industrial and commercial building occupiers.
Not only has Argonite zero Ozone Depleting Potential (ODP), it also contributes nothing towards global warming, thanks to a complete absence of hydrofluorocarbons-HFCs. At the same it is a gaseous fire suppressant that has an enviable 50-year track record.
The environmental answer:
Argonite is a leading environmentally-friendly replacement for Halon 1301. An equal blend of nitrogen and argon, it produces no secondary combustion products and is particularly suitable for fighting fires in confined spaces. Because its molecular weight is close to that of air, it lingers longer when discharged to extinguish a fire. This reduces the need for hermetic sealing of a protected room - a process that can be very expensive and needs to be repeated every time structural changes are made.
Argonite is not prone to fogging, is non-toxic, non-corrosive, leaves no residue and is electrically non-conductive. This has led to it being successfully specified in applications where there is a need to avoid secondary damage by the fire fighting agent. Popular applications include computer and control rooms, tape and archive stores, electrical cabinets and switchgear compartments and around telecommunications equipment.
How Argonite Works
Should a fire start, Argonite is injected rapidly into the room, reducing the oxygen level from the normal 21% to between 11% and 13%. This is too low for further combustion to take place, yet high enough to allow essential safety personnel to operate.
Argonite is suited to either total flooding or local application. When more than a single room or compartment is protected, GIELLE normally recommends that a central bank of Argonite cylinders is connected via diverter valves. This frequently proves to be the most cost effective and efficient solution. As a permanent gas working under high pressure with single-phase flow characteristics, complicated pipe networks can be installed.
Facilities requiring token-ring didn't wait for *BSD to implement drivers (which it doesn't if I understand your post correctly) but would have deployed something equivalent i.e. commercial unix of some sort, OS/2, even perhaps Linux...?
The funny thing there was that the token-ring network was so slow that the 56K modem integrated to my laptop was actually faster for accessing my email..... However the several hundreds employees still working there didn't have much of a choice. Remember, token-ring was very expensive and state-of-the-art 10 years ago.
The facility is now being migrated to a switched network deploying fast-ethernet, but planning and implementation will take months because the installed token-ring base is so huge.
Try this out ! I know that there are several versions out there, one of them specific to I.T. but I don't remember the link off-hand... Someone feeds this post through the B*S Bingo for some fun !
You must be new around here ;)
Well this has a fixed display of the area around Seattle. If you happen to live elsewhere, then a GPS is what you should look into for any sort of interactive navigation.