Just our of curiosity, has anyone noticed a decrease in spam received since this article originally broke on yahoo? I read this article on Fark, about mid-morning, and I haven't received one ounce of spam since then. Even with my spam filters in place, I get at least one or two people that think I need debt consolidation, a bigger penis, or to loose some weight (how do these people know me??) an hour. I actually had to send myself an email from a different account to ensure my mail server is working!
I'm not a storage guy, but I'm pretty sure that EMC is prior art in this case. Their storage arrays call in when "sick", a tech diagnoses the problem remotely, and you have a field service tech on your door step in a few hours....any EMC guys out there that can comment on this?
I went to the apple store to see if anything new was on there, and got a page saying "We're updating the store..." along with a graphic that looked like a post-it note that said "We'll be back soon!".
I think the advantage to having a 10-cent piece is that it makes the math easy. Let's face it; can you imagine the average cashier at WalMart giving back 98 cents change with an 18-cent coin?
Swannie
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Doh you're right! Good thing Karma isn't based on accuracy.;)
"Also explored in great detail is the intelligence of our sea life, mainly as that intelligence relates to dolphins and the octopi of our deepest oceans, and how they, in turn, can be used in the search for extended knowledge of the universe surrounding our planet. How and why these creatures have gained such highly specialized communication skills and how it is that an octopus can experience an event and not only remember it, but learn from it, is explored, and commented upon as it relates to man's search for a higher intelligence."
Don't forget about killer whales, if we don't work hard to ensure their continued existence as a species, aliens may send a probe out looking for them...
We're not talking about a small company here, we're talking about a hospitable who probably charges their client (read: their health plans) tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dollars for procedures and operations. I think the least they can do is dump some money into their network, and the resources that support their network. Especially since they appear to rely on it for life-or-death transactions like patient records.
I certainly agree with you, and I don't expect small comapnies to hire a team of network engineers with 6 figure salaries to handle their network. The small to medium sized company probably uses the network for file sharing, email, and internet access, certainly they could get by for a few days if they had to. On the other hand, this hospital couldn't access patient records because their network failed. So, if I'm a nurse and my patiend is in pain, how do I find out if I can give him or her morphine? Has he/she had some already? What if he/she is alergic? All this (I assume) is in their patient file, on the network, which they can't access.
Can you make a case why spanning tree is bad? Beyond "It's old", or "I've been burned before?" I've never, personally, heard a good arguement as to why spanning tree is bad.
As for why it's good, it can provide layer two redundancy at a very small cost (basically the cost of an additional cable). While the same can be provided with a routed network, at layer 3, the cost is much higher, and a properly configured spanning tree based network will failover very quick and provide lots of trouble free operation.
Beyond that, spanning tree can often protect people from themself. What happens when that intern plugs a cable in the wrong place and creats a bridging loop? You guessed it, no spanning tree, no protection for bridging loops, and you can kiss all, or part (depending on the design) of your network good bye, oh and good luck finding that cable espically if it's a big place, don't think that intern is going to admit his error and get fired...
Routing has nothing to do this, spanning tree is a layer two function, and is responsible for allowing multiple links and redundancy between switches in a network. A properly set-up network running properly set-up spanning tree works wonderfully. Unfortunately, many, many people play with things they don't understand (on a production network no less).
This whole situation arrives from poor training and poor design. Having several friends that work in hospitals, I know that they typically don't offer a lot of money for IT/Network jobs, and this is what happens when underpaid (read: inexperienced) people are allowed to run such a network.
Done ranting now, can you tell I was laid off a while ago and now stuck in a contract with a network designed by a bunch of inexperienced people?:)
... Even without a degree in economics everyone should realise that such trends will result in the music industry ceasing to exist....
I find this line from the letter amusing. I don't think that EMI's fear is that the music industry will cease to exist, but that the music industry will continue to exist in a new form without big labels like EMI.
The whole copy protection and DRM thing is just a way for the big labels to stay in business. After all, if artists can promote and distribute music by themselfs who needs them?
...maybe that's where all those CDR's are going...
I realize that this is easier said then done, but technically, why couldn't Netscape server the same functions? I realize that "politically" microsoft would never open up their API/whatever to allow that to happen, but none the less, hypothetically it is possible.
Why should we believe that it will continue to work after it's been modularized? I think we all know that Windows can work without IE, but it seems to me that Microsoft is going to use this as a way to say, "See? People de-install the Internet Explorer module, and Windows becomes (unstable|doesn't work)! I told you so!"
Classic Microsoft manuevering if you ask me... but then I'm a cynic.:)
Well, if this is true something tell me that al Qaeda has been working for M$ at least since Window 95 came out. They obviously worked on the Outlook project at some point to...:)
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Yes, buy a whopping 0.75% according to the bar graph. I'd call that's statistically equal.
I'm not a storage guy, but I'm pretty sure that EMC is prior art in this case. Their storage arrays call in when "sick", a tech diagnoses the problem remotely, and you have a field service tech on your door step in a few hours. ...any EMC guys out there that can comment on this?
...They use 3D file system technology like this to run big theme parks. I know for a fact they use something similar to this over at Jurassic Park. :)
Does anyone else find it funny that apple lists a VW New Beetle as an iPod accessory? Wait until I tell my wife...
Hmm...
I think the advantage to having a 10-cent piece is that it makes the math easy. Let's face it; can you imagine the average cashier at WalMart giving back 98 cents change with an 18-cent coin?
Swannie
Swannie
Don't forget about killer whales, if we don't work hard to ensure their continued existence as a species, aliens may send a probe out looking for them...
Swannie
I certainly agree with you, and I don't expect small comapnies to hire a team of network engineers with 6 figure salaries to handle their network. The small to medium sized company probably uses the network for file sharing, email, and internet access, certainly they could get by for a few days if they had to. On the other hand, this hospital couldn't access patient records because their network failed. So, if I'm a nurse and my patiend is in pain, how do I find out if I can give him or her morphine? Has he/she had some already? What if he/she is alergic? All this (I assume) is in their patient file, on the network, which they can't access.
Swannie
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As for why it's good, it can provide layer two redundancy at a very small cost (basically the cost of an additional cable). While the same can be provided with a routed network, at layer 3, the cost is much higher, and a properly configured spanning tree based network will failover very quick and provide lots of trouble free operation.
Beyond that, spanning tree can often protect people from themself. What happens when that intern plugs a cable in the wrong place and creats a bridging loop? You guessed it, no spanning tree, no protection for bridging loops, and you can kiss all, or part (depending on the design) of your network good bye, oh and good luck finding that cable espically if it's a big place, don't think that intern is going to admit his error and get fired...
Swannie
This whole situation arrives from poor training and poor design. Having several friends that work in hospitals, I know that they typically don't offer a lot of money for IT/Network jobs, and this is what happens when underpaid (read: inexperienced) people are allowed to run such a network.
Done ranting now, can you tell I was laid off a while ago and now stuck in a contract with a network designed by a bunch of inexperienced people?
Swannie
Swannie
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I find this line from the letter amusing. I don't think that EMI's fear is that the music industry will cease to exist, but that the music industry will continue to exist in a new form without big labels like EMI.
The whole copy protection and DRM thing is just a way for the big labels to stay in business. After all, if artists can promote and distribute music by themselfs who needs them?
...maybe that's where all those CDR's are going...
Cassini carries the Huygens probe which will land on Saturn's moon Titan in January 2005.
Hope they did the math right...
I realize that this is easier said then done, but technically, why couldn't Netscape server the same functions? I realize that "politically" microsoft would never open up their API/whatever to allow that to happen, but none the less, hypothetically it is possible.
Why should we believe that it will continue to work after it's been modularized? I think we all know that Windows can work without IE, but it seems to me that Microsoft is going to use this as a way to say, "See? People de-install the Internet Explorer module, and Windows becomes (unstable|doesn't work)! I told you so!"
:)
Classic Microsoft manuevering if you ask me... but then I'm a cynic.
-Swannie
Hmm... with a little hacking, and I could be the first person in my family to win a gold medal for figure skating.
Swannie