I'm not entirely sure what to say about these, other than my experience with them has been quite unplesant. Property management has been steadily replacing traditional urinals with Falcon Waterless units in our building, and to many people's dismay due to an ever increasing urine smell that doesn't go away. I don't know if it's a matter of needing special care the average slack-jawed janitors aren't aware of, or if this is just normal for the units. Anyone else have experience with the Falcon Waterless units (or other) perpetually reeking of old urine, or is it just misuse?
With any choice in the matter, I'll not ever purchase them based on present experience...
I've been using NMIS (http://sins.com.au/nmis) for about 2 years and it's better than any commercial NMS I've seen and used. Even our management turned down the likes of OpenView and Patrol in favor of it (of course cost helped that as well:). It's got it quirks, and isn't very modular unless you know perl reasonable well, but oob in a cisco network it's great with support for other vendors slowly growing. The developers are supportive via their email list as well. If you're in the need of an monitoring platform and your PHB's aren't afraid of open source apps, NMIS should definately be given a look.
Seems pci bus would be a horrific limiting factor considering you now have a series of processors sccessing resources across the pci bus, as well as on-board. As a firewall, unless the nic's are something decent that can handle hardware trunking to a real switch, 1 interface isn't going to take you far. If they could do dot1q trunking, it would definately be nice. Beyond that, I can't see something commercial like checkpoint fw1 running efficiently on the daughter cards with no more than 266mhz and 256mb of ram. Might work ok for something such as ipf, pf, or ip chains on a stripped down linux kernel, but no freakin way no on win2k. I say stick to a cluster of 1u's if space is that big of an issue. I doubt it's any less complicated to set up a cluster 1u's than getting these things to work *correctly*.
With sprint axing their ION dev too, I have to wonder what that means for their current fixed wireless broadband customers (i.e. me). After the announcement about ION last week, I got an email from them saying they're not doing any new installs, but current customers would not be affected. This seems to tell me it's only a matter of time before they shut the rest down too. To be honest, sprint service sucks, but I refuse to use @home cable after working there for a stint (grudge). Dsl isn't available to my house either. I hate to think im going to be nating 8 servers at home though a dialup again. It's a shame the managerial screwups that have killed these operations are causing a repression/ regression of technology, but it does appear to be in effect. Maybe if we're lucky aol or microsoft will buy them all out and run them right!
Nintendo sent a friend of mine a *friendly* letter in the email kindly asking her to relinquish rights to her domain, coughing.com. Turns out it was some damn pokemon character. She blew them off (moreso, told them to blow her), and next thing she knows they're sending her papers telling her she's being sued. What kind of shit is that? I dunno what's been going on with it lately, but get real... I doubt their strong arm tactics would hold up in court, but it's the idea they would go so far over something as vague as the domain name. My personal thoughts would be to post some pokemon pr0n up on the site just to piss em off... heh.
i worked for @home for a year in their techsupport and finally got sick of having to tell our customers lies and bs as per their scripts. Then i went to work at another small cable isp, "ispchannel". Same crap there. The isp side of it all is held hostage to the cable companies when it comes to degrading performance, but stuff like webspace and what-not is entirely up to the isp. If they won't act, it's probably out of laziness or incompetence if they are anything like the ones at @home. Most of them were incompetent, promoted only out of department clearing-house budgeting. The only thing you can do is keep pushing and always ask to speak to a supervisor. Either that or go down to your local MSO (cable company) and raise utter hell with them. They will certainly pass the buck to the isp!
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I'm not entirely sure what to say about these, other than my experience with them has been quite unplesant. Property management has been steadily replacing traditional urinals with Falcon Waterless units in our building, and to many people's dismay due to an ever increasing urine smell that doesn't go away. I don't know if it's a matter of needing special care the average slack-jawed janitors aren't aware of, or if this is just normal for the units. Anyone else have experience with the Falcon Waterless units (or other) perpetually reeking of old urine, or is it just misuse?
With any choice in the matter, I'll not ever purchase them based on present experience...
-mb
I've been using NMIS (http://sins.com.au/nmis) for about 2 years and it's better than any commercial NMS I've seen and used. Even our management turned down the likes of OpenView and Patrol in favor of it (of course cost helped that as well :). It's got it quirks, and isn't very modular unless you know perl reasonable well, but oob in a cisco network it's great with support for other vendors slowly growing. The developers are supportive via their email list as well. If you're in the need of an monitoring platform and your PHB's aren't afraid of open source apps, NMIS should definately be given a look.
--mb
Seems pci bus would be a horrific limiting factor considering you now have a series of processors sccessing resources across the pci bus, as well as on-board. As a firewall, unless the nic's are something decent that can handle hardware trunking to a real switch, 1 interface isn't going to take you far. If they could do dot1q trunking, it would definately be nice. Beyond that, I can't see something commercial like checkpoint fw1 running efficiently on the daughter cards with no more than 266mhz and 256mb of ram. Might work ok for something such as ipf, pf, or ip chains on a stripped down linux kernel, but no freakin way no on win2k. I say stick to a cluster of 1u's if space is that big of an issue. I doubt it's any less complicated to set up a cluster 1u's than getting these things to work *correctly*.
With sprint axing their ION dev too, I have to wonder what that means for their current fixed wireless broadband customers (i.e. me). After the announcement about ION last week, I got an email from them saying they're not doing any new installs, but current customers would not be affected. This seems to tell me it's only a matter of time before they shut the rest down too. To be honest, sprint service sucks, but I refuse to use @home cable after working there for a stint (grudge). Dsl isn't available to my house either. I hate to think im going to be nating 8 servers at home though a dialup again. It's a shame the managerial screwups that have killed these operations are causing a repression/ regression of technology, but it does appear to be in effect. Maybe if we're lucky aol or microsoft will buy them all out and run them right!
Nintendo sent a friend of mine a *friendly* letter in the email kindly asking her to relinquish rights to her domain, coughing.com. Turns out it was some damn pokemon character. She blew them off (moreso, told them to blow her), and next thing she knows they're sending her papers telling her she's being sued. What kind of shit is that? I dunno what's been going on with it lately, but get real... I doubt their strong arm tactics would hold up in court, but it's the idea they would go so far over something as vague as the domain name. My personal thoughts would be to post some pokemon pr0n up on the site just to piss em off... heh.
i worked for @home for a year in their techsupport and finally got sick of having to tell our customers lies and bs as per their scripts. Then i went to work at another small cable isp, "ispchannel". Same crap there. The isp side of it all is held hostage to the cable companies when it comes to degrading performance, but stuff like webspace and what-not is entirely up to the isp. If they won't act, it's probably out of laziness or incompetence if they are anything like the ones at @home. Most of them were incompetent, promoted only out of department clearing-house budgeting. The only thing you can do is keep pushing and always ask to speak to a supervisor. Either that or go down to your local MSO (cable company) and raise utter hell with them. They will certainly pass the buck to the isp!