Both Software Etc. and EB will refund your money for any reason as long as it's still in sellable condition. My wife has returned many games that she didn't like for a full refund.
In the past 10 years, I have worked for 2 of the top 10 networking companys and have interviewed at most of the others. I've noticed that in 9 out of 10 engineer's cubes you will find this book along with Internetworking with TCP/IP vol 1 by Douglas Comer. If the people designing your networking equipment swear by it, you can't go wrong.
Ditto. At my first engineering job, the company used these huge rubber bands to hold trash bags securely on the barrels. Someone grabbed a bag of them from the closet one day and we had a constant battle for the next year. I remember the day we rearranged the lab and discovered the piles of rubber bands that had accumulated under each of the benches.
Also amusing was building soda can pyramids and trying to knock them over from the other end of the lab, however, a successful shot never failed to draw managerial attention.
But how many know how to NAT more than one box behind their connect? Few..VERY few.
Probably more than you would guess. I was in a local PC outlet the other day and the woman in front of me had a little diagram that she had printed out showing how to connect a home network. She had very little knowledge about what she needed or how it worked, but she knew it could be done and she knew enough to ask the right questions and purchase the equipment she needed to set up a home LAN.
"...from what I've seen, Win2K is one of the best products released by Microsoft.
I disagree. Motocross Madness 2 is the best product released by Microsoft. Anything else released by them I will only use if I'm forced to, but MM2 just plain rocks.
I can't find any mention of routers/firewalls in their customer service agreement but I know there was a mention of them somewhere in the documentation that I received that just basically said that MediaOne would not support any problems you may have with them. When I activated my service 2-3 months ago and called to change my MAC address to that of my firewall, they were told what it was and had no objections. I would think they would be happier knowing that your system was as secure as possible.
Further, it's rather lame that there's no provisions in most dialup, ISDN and xDSL accounts as to
how many computers share the bandwidth. As opposed to MediaOne who requires you pay an extra fee in order for other computers in your house
to perform such tasks as receiveing email..
They charge extra for more PCs because of the additional IP addresses that would require, not bandwidth. Just set up a Linux/BSD router with NAT or pick up something like the Linksys cable/DSL router and connect PCs to your hearts content. I have a Linksys with three systems connected and I only pay MediaOne for a one system account.
Think about it. In true Wayne's World fashion I will provide three different endings to this question.
User: I am using Product X and it crashes after about ten minutes.
Tech support: Which Linux distribution are you using?
Response #1
U: Yggdrasil (sp?)
TS: Eggdrawhat??
Response #2
U: I rolled my own distro.
TS: *dial tone*
Response #3
U: Debian 2.2
TS: Ok, so your using kernel version 2.2.16?
U: Well, not exactly. I compiled a 2.4 pre release. I also built my own XFree86 4.0.1.
TS: *dial tone*
By far the best CM system I've used is ClearCase by Rational. It's probably not cheap, but it has excellent GUI/CLI interfaces, features up the wazoo, and integrates well with their ClearDDTS defect tracking system. Well worth looking in to.
I am sure that the misuse of sniffers would already be considered illegal under some existing law, but making sniffers themselves illegal? It'll never happen. I have been developing networking equipment for ~10 years now, something that would be impossible without the use of sniffers.
OK, i misunderstood what you meant by a stable release. When I suggested using the latest point release I was assuming that the updates would of course be applied before putting it to work.
Releasing a 6.2.1 would definately be a convenience, but would enough people be interested for Redhat to justify this. I hope most people would update long before something like this were available. BTW, I was running 6.0 updated up until this past weekend.
Look at M$ and how people think about them.
Yeah, but in this case, instability is just the tip of the iceberg.;)
In reality if Redhat wants to do this and keep a business they are going to have to have 2 distributions. One would be bleeding edge, and the other would be stable and tried.
What is the difference between this and choosing to use the last point release vs. the current major release? And isn't "brand new, stable and tried version" an oxymoron? Were you suggesting that they should have also released a stable and proven distro that's 2.4 kernel ready, includes XFree 4, etc..?
I don't doubt it. I ran 6.0 (yeah, that's right, a "buggy, unstable x.0 release") on my machine at work 8-10 hours a day for over a year with no problems at all. If 300+ days of uptime is "unstable", I can't wait until someone finally releases a stable OS.
Of course this allowed people to write software that tricked AOL into thinking that you were in a free area...
That's what made me think of it. I remember the apps that made AOL think you weren't connected unless you were actually transferring data. Didn't matter much to me as I was already on a flat rate plan.
I thought that AOL had metered access back in the early 90s and changed to a flat rate plan. I don't know if it's because flat rate proved to be more profitable or if competitors started offering flat rates and people liked that better...oh, wait...this is AOL. Profitable.
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I'm not an encryption expert, but surely it seems to me that any algorithm that has been released by a company into the public domain cannot be particularly secure
The RSA algorithm has been public knowledge for a long time, this is just the patent running out allowing anyone to implement the algorithm in their application. Any good encryption algorithm does not become less secure just because it's a known algorithm. Just look at DES, this has been a standard for 10+ years and it was always public knowledge.
The big difference between Kerberos and IPv6, though, is that the Kerberos standard defined a field(s) designed for extensions. Try to grow an IP header and you'll cause header checksum errors and off to the bit bucket it goes.
But what about supported routing protocols? Are there free implementations of OSPF, RIP, BGP, etc.. available or are these supported in the kernel? If not, that would rule out anything but SOHO use.
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There is support for the via82c686 in the 2.2.18 kernel and has been in 2.4.x since at least 2.4.0pre10 (that was the first one I tried).
Man, and I thought my commute was a bitch.
Both Software Etc. and EB will refund your money for any reason as long as it's still in sellable condition. My wife has returned many games that she didn't like for a full refund.
I'm not sure about other areas but I know my RoadRunner account has ports 137-139 blocked. No great loss.
In the past 10 years, I have worked for 2 of the top 10 networking companys and have interviewed at most of the others. I've noticed that in 9 out of 10 engineer's cubes you will find this book along with Internetworking with TCP/IP vol 1 by Douglas Comer. If the people designing your networking equipment swear by it, you can't go wrong.
Ditto. At my first engineering job, the company used these huge rubber bands to hold trash bags securely on the barrels. Someone grabbed a bag of them from the closet one day and we had a constant battle for the next year. I remember the day we rearranged the lab and discovered the piles of rubber bands that had accumulated under each of the benches.
Also amusing was building soda can pyramids and trying to knock them over from the other end of the lab, however, a successful shot never failed to draw managerial attention.
Probably more than you would guess. I was in a local PC outlet the other day and the woman in front of me had a little diagram that she had printed out showing how to connect a home network. She had very little knowledge about what she needed or how it worked, but she knew it could be done and she knew enough to ask the right questions and purchase the equipment she needed to set up a home LAN.
I disagree. Motocross Madness 2 is the best product released by Microsoft. Anything else released by them I will only use if I'm forced to, but MM2 just plain rocks.
Heh. That scene was the first thing I thought of when I read the article, but I didn't think anyone else would remember. Classic.
I can't find any mention of routers/firewalls in their customer service agreement but I know there was a mention of them somewhere in the documentation that I received that just basically said that MediaOne would not support any problems you may have with them. When I activated my service 2-3 months ago and called to change my MAC address to that of my firewall, they were told what it was and had no objections. I would think they would be happier knowing that your system was as secure as possible.
The best (or worst) one I ever heard was the user that thought he needed to upgrade his keyboard because his didn't have an 'any' key.
They charge extra for more PCs because of the additional IP addresses that would require, not bandwidth. Just set up a Linux/BSD router with NAT or pick up something like the Linksys cable/DSL router and connect PCs to your hearts content. I have a Linksys with three systems connected and I only pay MediaOne for a one system account.
Think about it. In true Wayne's World fashion I will provide three different endings to this question.
User: I am using Product X and it crashes after about ten minutes.
Tech support: Which Linux distribution are you using?
Response #1
U: Yggdrasil (sp?)
TS: Eggdrawhat??
Response #2
U: I rolled my own distro.
TS: *dial tone*
Response #3
U: Debian 2.2
TS: Ok, so your using kernel version 2.2.16?
U: Well, not exactly. I compiled a 2.4 pre release. I also built my own XFree86 4.0.1.
TS: *dial tone*
I confess. And 30 years ago? For a minute there I was really impressed with Sun's QA.
By far the best CM system I've used is ClearCase by Rational. It's probably not cheap, but it has excellent GUI/CLI interfaces, features up the wazoo, and integrates well with their ClearDDTS defect tracking system. Well worth looking in to.
I am sure that the misuse of sniffers would already be considered illegal under some existing law, but making sniffers themselves illegal? It'll never happen. I have been developing networking equipment for ~10 years now, something that would be impossible without the use of sniffers.
Releasing a 6.2.1 would definately be a convenience, but would enough people be interested for Redhat to justify this. I hope most people would update long before something like this were available. BTW, I was running 6.0 updated up until this past weekend.
Look at M$ and how people think about them.
Yeah, but in this case, instability is just the tip of the iceberg. ;)
What is the difference between this and choosing to use the last point release vs. the current major release? And isn't "brand new, stable and tried version" an oxymoron? Were you suggesting that they should have also released a stable and proven distro that's 2.4 kernel ready, includes XFree 4, etc..?
I don't doubt it. I ran 6.0 (yeah, that's right, a "buggy, unstable x.0 release") on my machine at work 8-10 hours a day for over a year with no problems at all. If 300+ days of uptime is "unstable", I can't wait until someone finally releases a stable OS.
That's what made me think of it. I remember the apps that made AOL think you weren't connected unless you were actually transferring data. Didn't matter much to me as I was already on a flat rate plan.
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See the problem now?
The RSA algorithm has been public knowledge for a long time, this is just the patent running out allowing anyone to implement the algorithm in their application. Any good encryption algorithm does not become less secure just because it's a known algorithm. Just look at DES, this has been a standard for 10+ years and it was always public knowledge.
The big difference between Kerberos and IPv6, though, is that the Kerberos standard defined a field(s) designed for extensions. Try to grow an IP header and you'll cause header checksum errors and off to the bit bucket it goes.
But what about supported routing protocols? Are there free implementations of OSPF, RIP, BGP, etc.. available or are these supported in the kernel? If not, that would rule out anything but SOHO use.