The telco side of Verizon gave me an OC-12 that I didn't order at no charge, so they aren't completely bad. YMMV. On the other hand, I have an OC-12 that I'm not really using if anyone wants to colo with me.;)
Sounds like it's time for you to find a colo that doesn't jerk you around. There's plenty around. Go carrier neutral or pick a smaller shop that has more of a focus on customer service because they actually value your business.
ICANN has the power to pull accreditation. The problem is that they won't do it for the big guys. You'd better believe they would for a small company, though.
I just meant the graphical console. I don't want to get started on how buggy the DRAC SSH serial console implementation is, how it likes to lock up or inject garbage on large outputs like dmesg or 'ps ax', even through a pager.
The DRAC sucks for remote console. I've been impressed by the HP iLO2 (although not by their expensive licensing) because the consoles and virtual media work on any platform that can run Java. Of course, they also have a special "integrated console" to make IE users feel special, but I didn't find it offered any value that was missing on the Java versions. I've tried the iLO2 on Linux, Mac, and Windows without any issues. That's the way Java is supposed to be. Even the DRAC4 that didn't use activex would throw some stupid error like "you're not using java on windows".
The only actual experience I have that contradicts your opinion is a UPS shorting its inverter and static bypass after two years of being in an 80-90 degree room during the summer, giving it a peak internal temp of 110.
Or, if you're Google, you have a metric shit-ton of servers and don't care too much about reducing the MTBF of a few hundred racks by running them hot.
Servers may be able to operate at 90-100, but they simply won't last as long being cooked compared to equipment that lives at cooler temperatures. This probably doesn't matter if you're Google and don't care about burning hardware or if you have money to spare and are always installing new equipment, or would rather generate truckloads of electronics waste replacing servers faster than a cooler facility just to get a PUE to brag about. The rest of us will have to settle for server rooms with air conditioning for now.
I'll second this. The CS department where I did my undergrad was under the engineering banner. I was told many times in different classes that the goal of the program was to teach us how to solve problems as engineers, not churn out code monkeys. I did Java, C, C++, Lua, Lisp, Smalltalk, 8051 assembly, and some others I can't remember. The CS program formally taught C++ for the first two classes, but those were the only two (and their labs) that was strictly focused on learning to code. The rest of the classes were "solve this problem" and however you implemented it was up to you. Some were even "solve this same problem in several different languages". Learn to solve problems. Languages come and go.
The only thing I can add was that I was at a Home Depot once during an extended power outage. They had a generator that ran emergency lighting and the register system, but they had to wait a while for it to boot back up and re-sync to corporate or something. Anyway, during that time they had employees all over the place helping people write down the price of items they were purchasing so the checkers could ring you up manually. At the register they would write down the UPC, price and quantity to update inventory later. Credit transactions were authorized by phone. Certainly a bit slower checkout process than usual, but they didn't close up shop just because the power went out.
Are you from the US? There's no such thing as free rebroadcasting here. You're not paying for "their" content; they don't have any content. (Okay, maybe the lame help I've never seen a remote control before channel and local public access stuff is theirs, but by and large the content is licensed to them by others.) The cable companies are paying for rebroadcast rights for other people's content and passing that cost on to you. Also, unlike over the air broadcasting, cable networks actually cost money to maintain. Local cable companies inject local ads (and yeah, they get money from those) but if you ever watch Dish or DirecTV you'll notice the advertising is completely different because there's no local cut away. "Must carry" stations are different story. As far as HBO, Showtime, etc. I agree - you *are* paying for the content in that case. However, since I haven't had cable in years, nor have I ever subscribed to premium channels when I did, I don't know if they run ads on them.
I'm in no way defending their pricing which I think is horribly expensive in my area, but licensing is what it is.
Anything with wires is totally uncool and no longer worth using - or so it seems. Personally, I still find myself occasionally using the land line attached to my DSL service.
Same with Sprint; they call their version the AIRAVE and it says: "Limit access to your AIRAVE by creating a list of up to 50 approved Sprint phone numbers."
Before anybody gets real hot about how cool these things are, just realize that you are paying these people directly to expand their service coverage. That's just plain nuts. If it was $40 or $50 bucks like a cheap router and I could restrict access by IMEI, *maybe* it might be an interesting deal.
The technology is pretty cool - cell site in the palm of your hand. The way the corporations handle them not so much.
If you look at Sprint's mobile broadband card plans they clearly state the monthly 3G cap is 5GB and it's 5 cents per meg after that. Expensive, yes, but at least it's upfront. Their 4G (xohm) service is listed as "unlimited" but I don't know if there is any fine print on that.
Sprint does support tethering with the "phone as modem" option. Otherwise, yeah, the vision data plans are supposed to be just for the phone itself. Although why they (Palm? Sprint?) would exclude one phone from the tethering while allowing the rest of the lineup is a mystery to me.
The Treo Pro finally has fully functional integrated MMS support that I was actually quite impressed by. This is on Sprint even - the ones notorious for historically horrid MMS support.
A basic business line from AT&T costs about between $30 and $40 in my service area. The exact same service from a CLEC is $18. We're talking about a basic, no features, land line.
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No, no, no. You're doing it wrong. You're supposed to praise Google for offering such a generous SLA for your money.
2^10 aka 1,024 is arbitrary
Are you retarded? That's called math.
The telco side of Verizon gave me an OC-12 that I didn't order at no charge, so they aren't completely bad. YMMV. On the other hand, I have an OC-12 that I'm not really using if anyone wants to colo with me. ;)
Sounds like it's time for you to find a colo that doesn't jerk you around. There's plenty around. Go carrier neutral or pick a smaller shop that has more of a focus on customer service because they actually value your business.
Isolated on an island.
ICANN has the power to pull accreditation. The problem is that they won't do it for the big guys. You'd better believe they would for a small company, though.
I'd rather see product placement i.e. Truman Show than 20 minutes of ads per hour.
I just meant the graphical console. I don't want to get started on how buggy the DRAC SSH serial console implementation is, how it likes to lock up or inject garbage on large outputs like dmesg or 'ps ax', even through a pager.
The DRAC sucks for remote console. I've been impressed by the HP iLO2 (although not by their expensive licensing) because the consoles and virtual media work on any platform that can run Java. Of course, they also have a special "integrated console" to make IE users feel special, but I didn't find it offered any value that was missing on the Java versions. I've tried the iLO2 on Linux, Mac, and Windows without any issues. That's the way Java is supposed to be. Even the DRAC4 that didn't use activex would throw some stupid error like "you're not using java on windows".
An RTLS is the only one which is a major risk.
It's also the only abort mode that sounds like it would be one hell of a ride.
Stupid sexy Flanders.
The only actual experience I have that contradicts your opinion is a UPS shorting its inverter and static bypass after two years of being in an 80-90 degree room during the summer, giving it a peak internal temp of 110.
Or, if you're Google, you have a metric shit-ton of servers and don't care too much about reducing the MTBF of a few hundred racks by running them hot.
Servers may be able to operate at 90-100, but they simply won't last as long being cooked compared to equipment that lives at cooler temperatures. This probably doesn't matter if you're Google and don't care about burning hardware or if you have money to spare and are always installing new equipment, or would rather generate truckloads of electronics waste replacing servers faster than a cooler facility just to get a PUE to brag about. The rest of us will have to settle for server rooms with air conditioning for now.
I'll second this. The CS department where I did my undergrad was under the engineering banner. I was told many times in different classes that the goal of the program was to teach us how to solve problems as engineers, not churn out code monkeys. I did Java, C, C++, Lua, Lisp, Smalltalk, 8051 assembly, and some others I can't remember. The CS program formally taught C++ for the first two classes, but those were the only two (and their labs) that was strictly focused on learning to code. The rest of the classes were "solve this problem" and however you implemented it was up to you. Some were even "solve this same problem in several different languages". Learn to solve problems. Languages come and go.
The only thing I can add was that I was at a Home Depot once during an extended power outage. They had a generator that ran emergency lighting and the register system, but they had to wait a while for it to boot back up and re-sync to corporate or something. Anyway, during that time they had employees all over the place helping people write down the price of items they were purchasing so the checkers could ring you up manually. At the register they would write down the UPC, price and quantity to update inventory later. Credit transactions were authorized by phone. Certainly a bit slower checkout process than usual, but they didn't close up shop just because the power went out.
Are you from the US? There's no such thing as free rebroadcasting here. You're not paying for "their" content; they don't have any content. (Okay, maybe the lame help I've never seen a remote control before channel and local public access stuff is theirs, but by and large the content is licensed to them by others.) The cable companies are paying for rebroadcast rights for other people's content and passing that cost on to you. Also, unlike over the air broadcasting, cable networks actually cost money to maintain. Local cable companies inject local ads (and yeah, they get money from those) but if you ever watch Dish or DirecTV you'll notice the advertising is completely different because there's no local cut away. "Must carry" stations are different story. As far as HBO, Showtime, etc. I agree - you *are* paying for the content in that case. However, since I haven't had cable in years, nor have I ever subscribed to premium channels when I did, I don't know if they run ads on them.
I'm in no way defending their pricing which I think is horribly expensive in my area, but licensing is what it is.
Anything with wires is totally uncool and no longer worth using - or so it seems. Personally, I still find myself occasionally using the land line attached to my DSL service.
Same with Sprint; they call their version the AIRAVE and it says: "Limit access to your AIRAVE by creating a list of up to 50 approved Sprint phone numbers."
Before anybody gets real hot about how cool these things are, just realize that you are paying these people directly to expand their service coverage. That's just plain nuts. If it was $40 or $50 bucks like a cheap router and I could restrict access by IMEI, *maybe* it might be an interesting deal.
The technology is pretty cool - cell site in the palm of your hand. The way the corporations handle them not so much.
If you look at Sprint's mobile broadband card plans they clearly state the monthly 3G cap is 5GB and it's 5 cents per meg after that. Expensive, yes, but at least it's upfront. Their 4G (xohm) service is listed as "unlimited" but I don't know if there is any fine print on that.
You can ask them to add "phone as modem" to your service plan.
Sprint does support tethering with the "phone as modem" option. Otherwise, yeah, the vision data plans are supposed to be just for the phone itself. Although why they (Palm? Sprint?) would exclude one phone from the tethering while allowing the rest of the lineup is a mystery to me.
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The Treo Pro finally has fully functional integrated MMS support that I was actually quite impressed by. This is on Sprint even - the ones notorious for historically horrid MMS support.
A basic business line from AT&T costs about between $30 and $40 in my service area. The exact same service from a CLEC is $18. We're talking about a basic, no features, land line.