Actualy GigE would be rather hard to deal with at least with a stock MTU of 1500 bytes thats a lot of interupt handaling. You can run it as IP over firewire just as easily with a larger packet size and keep the cable simplicity along with nearly the speed of gigabit (800mbs half duplex vs 1000 full) I dont know enough about the CPUs in this sort of gear to make an educated assumption but with standard intel alpha and sun CPU's you need a lot of horsepower to go full datarate gigabit at a standard MTU.
Sorry but they do "rape" bad drives aka people with accidents on there record or even getting caught speeding. Be aware there is a difference between a bad driver and somebody that dries well but above the posted artificialy low limits. Funny that you thing the insurance would be so high without socialization I pay 1280 a year for car worth 12k in the US I'm also an unmarried male in my 20's.
Besides all of this is there realy a good reason to require insurance to drive it's realy an artificial industry in wich nobody benifits but the insurance people. Yea it's nice to know that the other driver should be insured but there are no real safegaurds in place to insure that they are or realy have enough coverage. In my state I would have to post a significant ammount in an escro account earning no significant interest it would be nice if the government would stop proping up artificial industries and let me say use 100k in a money market account or stock portfolio as surety.
I beleive what your looking for is firewire it has the bandwith to move video and audio and can be used for control as well. The design allows things to be daisy chained for less clutter. Now you see them on the current DVHS decks and some TV's and receivers. Unfortunatly DVI is taking over that segment because firewire gasp dosent have any content protection and it's digital. DVI is substandard in it's control function and routing though it seems to be more common as a video out than firewire (would be strange to see a video card with firewire that supported it as an output device)
As an asside somebody should have pulled there ability to call a tape with macrovision VHS compatable or NTSC it's realy not compliant with the specs of either. This is the technology that got the movie companies used to copy protection.
Why whould you ever run a server on some random ECS motherboard (not that they are particualry bad but for arguments sake) As allways if you want reliable get a server motherboard and powersupply with some nice ecc ram and a raid 5 set. Generic PC's are just that junk now granted Linux works extreamly well with generic PC's proably because thats what it gets tested on most. Now MS and IBM general have programmers of workstation class boxes that are closer to servers in there design (Realy the only difference is the AGP slot) I'm assuming on MS's side but know that for a fact on IBM's side.
You have got to be kidding a off the shelf UPS is a horid idea generating DC then inverting to go into the UPS possible going back to DC then to AC again then to swithc back to DC is just wastfull. There are ways to hook a UPS driecty to a solar cell for charging but he would be much better off with a normal solar setup with much cheaper and more reliable batteries (marine deap dischage come to mind) assuming he sets things up for a 12 volt rail and thats common enough he could just use a dc to dc power supply like the one in APC's laptop case to run a laptop a cell phone to make said laptop usefull and another device. This way your only converting once avoinding all the other waste.
About the laptop look at there rated runtimes vs there battery capacity there are plenty of 7+ hour laptops out there. A bigger keyboard and mouse would seem apropriate and faily frugal on power (USB versions would max out a 5 volts 500ma so 2.5 watts and most dont seem to use anything near that also a reminder that USB and Firewire devices are nice and will tell you how much power they need)
Actualy you do deserve the content as it's going through the air to get to you (except for cable and even then it does to the head end) thats part of the commons in the US it should be used for things that are for the advantage of the people not for somebody to get rich off of. We cant use the RF space because we rent it to the companies to provide entertainment news etc at a reasonable cost. Anything OTA the commercial skipping bit is simply stupid. Personaly anything you pay for should have less commercials ala HBO and pay channels in general. Simply embedding could replace commercials that layers the comercial with content good for entertainment horid for news. DirectTV is about 100 a month for me thats a full package and a few receivers how many housholds are paying 50 or more a month and why isnt this enough to pay for the programming. The BBC is exelent for content and they have a similar pay scedual granted no actor makes a million an episode ala friends but there level of content is high and there storylines good (most of the time to each there own though) It's the same with HBO and Showtime why do they have some of the best episodics out there it's all ontent and no making shure the advertisers are happy.
It's the up front cost of buring that is higher not the TCO. Realy it's the cost of putting in the casign thats more expensive remember this can also get reused and recycled if they over build. They do save on maitnence costs as they break less. So it's a question of incuring greater up front costs to lower the maitnence costs. You also have to remember if you do the install at the right time it's a lot cheaper this is why you will see underground services in condos and other developments as putting in pipe while there is just dirt is a lot cheaper repaving and landscaping is a significant portion of the costs.
Underground is worth the effort remember this place has high incidence of earthquakes and harsh weather (assuming there but it seems to fit the pattern of the pac rim) putting cable underground protects it from a lot of forces making there uptime higher. They only excuse to run wires above ground is it's cheaper initialy and quicker to repair (a little preplanning and that can be fixed for underground) but above ground often needs to be repaired more often.
Actualy with software radio's being used in modern cell phones implementing GPS isn't particualy hard with most chip manufactures supporting it in firmware.
Directional triangulation does require special gear but signal strength does not. The towers allready have signal streanth built into there calculations to pick one tower over another all things being equal a decent map and using the relitive signal streangth to scew from the center would provide an idea of where the phone is good enough for stalking etc.
OK it's a big overglorified rfid tag. Pop the case open and put a momentary contact switch inline with the coil. When you want to use the device just hit the button. Besides the tracking of when you went through the tolls (last I checked they had a camera pointed at your plat anyway) it clears things up.
External hacks would also be easy it's all of some antistatic platic to attenuate the signal.
Now take this all with a grain of salt I live in CT where we dont have tolls.
Easy pick up a second line broadband is 50 a month get a couple modems and run multilink over them keep the dedicated line up all the time for your constant on and bring up the econd line one demand and via avalibility with v92 you should be able to still get calls on it or just drop the line if you need to make one. ISDN is also a nice choice if your fee's are reasnable.
Realy though as somebody thats currently looking for land in the country DSL is out there same for cable modems and if all else fails sat (latency is an issue)
I agree that the state has the need to audit and some adutiting methods are probably spelled out in there contract this one obviously isnt and shouldent be allowed till it is if ever. Like I said going the cheap way out and just getting a cell phone to track the driver is an invasion of the drivers privacy. Track the vehical not the driver it's easy to do can be done in real time along with sending back all sorts of nice maitnence data perhaps even soem real time road data. Some states do the simple thing of installing radios and having the drivers report in.
OK first off I do this for a living and am an ex full time programmer. I left programming to leave working at big bussiness's slow pace. Having said that.
Yes programmers should program more and go to meetings less; they have nothing to add to a meeting outside of thats hard thats imposible etc etc etc let, the one lead programmer or better yet the Systems Arch go to the meeting for the tech side. Yea it's they guys some programmers hate because they are technical and see through the BS while pushing intergration solutions and other non programmer friendly things. Realy the coding aspect is only a very small part of the overall system. Archs need to be versed in a lot of different fields to get there jobs done (I laught when I talk to Architects that only have been inside the programming field fer projects work well without some networking and server hardware) this is so they understand the admins issues with there blessed production gear through the marketing guys that want to be able to use every buzzword known to man to describe the end product. Remember while the sys admins know little about programming, well they are paid to keep the system up and working and protect it with there jobs programmers dont get called in at 4am generaly they do. Programmers like most tech people need an interface to keep there time free and also to represent them tot he other departments given that person and the ability to work with them you can get better products and happier programmers most of the time (granted there will be the enevitable programmer hatred of this person as they come back with the management overridden bad ideas and shrug there shoulders.)
While they seem to be the first with dual layer disks and the drives themselves are cheaper the media is more expensive. -R also seems to be more compatable with normal DVD technology.
This is a contractual issue as much as anything else. There contract dosent state they have to allow this so they dont want to without further compensation for the aditional lack or atonomy. Trust in the fact this will allow people sitting in there comphy offices with MBA's decide that they can do it more efficiently and generaly mess the whole thing up then blame the contractors for poor performance. GPS monitoring of the personal should nto be allowed on priciple want to monitor the trucks fine assuming they own them not the contractors. I still fail to see what great benifit this will serve? Figuring out that in the middle of the nigh plow drives stop for coffee to often and thus the road to dunkin donuts/crispy cream is very well plowed? In my state a lot of the plow drivers have office jobs for the DOT often they are up for 20 hour or more when plowing it's realy not a fun job but it's extra money for those workers the contributes to there pention package.
If you realy look at the difference between the low end and the high end it's not CPU speed it's GPU's RAM and hard drives. Now people have gotten used to buying based upon CPU speed even though the big diifferences is RAM I have watched people go from a 1.2 gig PIII to a 2.4 gig PIV because the PII was slow it only had 128 megs of ram and built in GPU. Seeing that a good computer was going to waste I threw in a pile of ram and a old geforce2 it now goes toe to toe with the new machines and bests it in performance. Total upgrade cost if I went to the store 150 bucks. Now granted I run a dual proc high end workstation and there is something to besaid for fast CPU's but only once you have taken care of other performacen issues.
I know this might be scary but your could just get a firewall thats understands H323 realy this has little to do with the application it's just the standard way to get it accross the internet if your "firewall" (use that term loosly for those home nat products) dosent support the standard fix it. More advanced firewalls read into the h323 packets and dynamicaly open ports for the remote site only.
OK I'm a bit biased as a CCIE but your confusing certs with experience certs have become just a test to make sure your somewhat compotent. A good hiring manager takes them for what they are just a test that shows you have a minimal ammout of education.
Now the CCIE tract is more for thery and for me it was exposure to old school antiquated techs like IPX, frame relay and RIP to name a few. Many a CCIE spends there days working out thery and big broad strokes of a Network Arch not plunking away at a keyboard (we get flunkies for that, what did you thinkt he CCNA and CCNE's were for:) thats why your average shop dosent have any CCIE's on staff but calls them in when they make big changes.
In the US this is the way it's supposed to be but China is still officialy communist where it's from the people to the people paying for something intangable like IP is absurd in that mindset sure pay for the copy even pay enough to cover the salery of the people that made it but paying millions to sockholders and ceo's isn't inside there political mantra.
OK as somebody that can spec eletrical this is plain BS. Those cheap surge strips are not capable of dealing with large spikes due to poor grouding. Whole house units dont protect you from that 2000 watt hair drier (BTW you can not get 2000 watts out of a 15 amp plug per UL you should only draw 80% and thats 12 amps for 1320 watts max same for those vacume cleaners)
Anyway enough ranting for a good home entertainment setup you would want at least one dedicated circut perferably 20 or 30 amps if you can use the 30 amp back 20 amp front recepticals in your building code . A single line surge or UPS unit might also be a good idea (something in the nice back APC RM line but thats over a grand in UPS) especialy for the Tivo and Replay users but also for the big screen TV guys. I say UPS simple because loosing power is hell on any device while it's working and the brownouts are also hell when you remember that modern eletronics are never realy off unless unpluged remotes and all that.
Actualy you can encode your Lat and Long into your DNS record it's a pretty much unused tag but it's there. With this you could do a reverse lookup on a an IP and then forward lookup the location.
Sun boxes havent been fast in a long time hence the move to the AMD chips. Sun just dosent sell enough chips to do the billions in R&D to make a competitive chip. Now beyond the chip sun is great at putting as much IO bandwith as they can arguably second to only SGI without getting into realy esoteric hardware. Even with this said PC's have been getting better and better at IO bandwith with those FSB speeds getting cranked up and AMD with there new new multidirectional FSB.
Your missing the point that the most effective and cheaest to impement method of blocking an address is what we call null routing. Pretty much you inject routes into whatever routing protocal your using and have them go to the bitbucket. It's very fast and efficient as you can update all your routers automaticaly in seconds and it's very friendly to there resources as routing is what they do well not running ACL's etc.
I think your problem has more to do with people have lost site of just how cheap bandwith is if you are smart about it. It's not imposible to get a bit of rack space and a 10 megabit floor on a 100bt connected billed 95 percentile for a few hundred bucks a month lets say 750-100 for a rough number this could run most well written sites medium volume sites. Add to this a the cost of a server and it's realy not that expensive. The real costs of a web site seem to be more in the web designer, reporter etc side of things lets not blame it on bandwith costs.
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Actualy GigE would be rather hard to deal with at least with a stock MTU of 1500 bytes thats a lot of interupt handaling. You can run it as IP over firewire just as easily with a larger packet size and keep the cable simplicity along with nearly the speed of gigabit (800mbs half duplex vs 1000 full) I dont know enough about the CPUs in this sort of gear to make an educated assumption but with standard intel alpha and sun CPU's you need a lot of horsepower to go full datarate gigabit at a standard MTU.
Sorry but they do "rape" bad drives aka people with accidents on there record or even getting caught speeding. Be aware there is a difference between a bad driver and somebody that dries well but above the posted artificialy low limits. Funny that you thing the insurance would be so high without socialization I pay 1280 a year for car worth 12k in the US I'm also an unmarried male in my 20's.
Besides all of this is there realy a good reason to require insurance to drive it's realy an artificial industry in wich nobody benifits but the insurance people. Yea it's nice to know that the other driver should be insured but there are no real safegaurds in place to insure that they are or realy have enough coverage. In my state I would have to post a significant ammount in an escro account earning no significant interest it would be nice if the government would stop proping up artificial industries and let me say use 100k in a money market account or stock portfolio as surety.
I beleive what your looking for is firewire it has the bandwith to move video and audio and can be used for control as well. The design allows things to be daisy chained for less clutter. Now you see them on the current DVHS decks and some TV's and receivers. Unfortunatly DVI is taking over that segment because firewire gasp dosent have any content protection and it's digital. DVI is substandard in it's control function and routing though it seems to be more common as a video out than firewire (would be strange to see a video card with firewire that supported it as an output device)
As an asside somebody should have pulled there ability to call a tape with macrovision VHS compatable or NTSC it's realy not compliant with the specs of either. This is the technology that got the movie companies used to copy protection.
Why whould you ever run a server on some random ECS motherboard (not that they are particualry bad but for arguments sake) As allways if you want reliable get a server motherboard and powersupply with some nice ecc ram and a raid 5 set. Generic PC's are just that junk now granted Linux works extreamly well with generic PC's proably because thats what it gets tested on most. Now MS and IBM general have programmers of workstation class boxes that are closer to servers in there design (Realy the only difference is the AGP slot) I'm assuming on MS's side but know that for a fact on IBM's side.
You have got to be kidding a off the shelf UPS is a horid idea generating DC then inverting to go into the UPS possible going back to DC then to AC again then to swithc back to DC is just wastfull. There are ways to hook a UPS driecty to a solar cell for charging but he would be much better off with a normal solar setup with much cheaper and more reliable batteries (marine deap dischage come to mind) assuming he sets things up for a 12 volt rail and thats common enough he could just use a dc to dc power supply like the one in APC's laptop case to run a laptop a cell phone to make said laptop usefull and another device. This way your only converting once avoinding all the other waste.
About the laptop look at there rated runtimes vs there battery capacity there are plenty of 7+ hour laptops out there. A bigger keyboard and mouse would seem apropriate and faily frugal on power (USB versions would max out a 5 volts 500ma so 2.5 watts and most dont seem to use anything near that also a reminder that USB and Firewire devices are nice and will tell you how much power they need)
Actualy you do deserve the content as it's going through the air to get to you (except for cable and even then it does to the head end) thats part of the commons in the US it should be used for things that are for the advantage of the people not for somebody to get rich off of. We cant use the RF space because we rent it to the companies to provide entertainment news etc at a reasonable cost. Anything OTA the commercial skipping bit is simply stupid. Personaly anything you pay for should have less commercials ala HBO and pay channels in general. Simply embedding could replace commercials that layers the comercial with content good for entertainment horid for news. DirectTV is about 100 a month for me thats a full package and a few receivers how many housholds are paying 50 or more a month and why isnt this enough to pay for the programming. The BBC is exelent for content and they have a similar pay scedual granted no actor makes a million an episode ala friends but there level of content is high and there storylines good (most of the time to each there own though) It's the same with HBO and Showtime why do they have some of the best episodics out there it's all ontent and no making shure the advertisers are happy.
It's the up front cost of buring that is higher not the TCO. Realy it's the cost of putting in the casign thats more expensive remember this can also get reused and recycled if they over build. They do save on maitnence costs as they break less. So it's a question of incuring greater up front costs to lower the maitnence costs. You also have to remember if you do the install at the right time it's a lot cheaper this is why you will see underground services in condos and other developments as putting in pipe while there is just dirt is a lot cheaper repaving and landscaping is a significant portion of the costs.
Underground is worth the effort remember this place has high incidence of earthquakes and harsh weather (assuming there but it seems to fit the pattern of the pac rim) putting cable underground protects it from a lot of forces making there uptime higher. They only excuse to run wires above ground is it's cheaper initialy and quicker to repair (a little preplanning and that can be fixed for underground) but above ground often needs to be repaired more often.
Actualy with software radio's being used in modern cell phones implementing GPS isn't particualy hard with most chip manufactures supporting it in firmware.
Directional triangulation does require special gear but signal strength does not. The towers allready have signal streanth built into there calculations to pick one tower over another all things being equal a decent map and using the relitive signal streangth to scew from the center would provide an idea of where the phone is good enough for stalking etc.
OK it's a big overglorified rfid tag. Pop the case open and put a momentary contact switch inline with the coil. When you want to use the device just hit the button. Besides the tracking of when you went through the tolls (last I checked they had a camera pointed at your plat anyway) it clears things up.
External hacks would also be easy it's all of some antistatic platic to attenuate the signal.
Now take this all with a grain of salt I live in CT where we dont have tolls.
Easy pick up a second line broadband is 50 a month get a couple modems and run multilink over them keep the dedicated line up all the time for your constant on and bring up the econd line one demand and via avalibility with v92 you should be able to still get calls on it or just drop the line if you need to make one. ISDN is also a nice choice if your fee's are reasnable.
Realy though as somebody thats currently looking for land in the country DSL is out there same for cable modems and if all else fails sat (latency is an issue)
I agree that the state has the need to audit and some adutiting methods are probably spelled out in there contract this one obviously isnt and shouldent be allowed till it is if ever. Like I said going the cheap way out and just getting a cell phone to track the driver is an invasion of the drivers privacy. Track the vehical not the driver it's easy to do can be done in real time along with sending back all sorts of nice maitnence data perhaps even soem real time road data. Some states do the simple thing of installing radios and having the drivers report in.
OK first off I do this for a living and am an ex full time programmer. I left programming to leave working at big bussiness's slow pace. Having said that.
Yes programmers should program more and go to meetings less; they have nothing to add to a meeting outside of thats hard thats imposible etc etc etc let, the one lead programmer or better yet the Systems Arch go to the meeting for the tech side. Yea it's they guys some programmers hate because they are technical and see through the BS while pushing intergration solutions and other non programmer friendly things. Realy the coding aspect is only a very small part of the overall system. Archs need to be versed in a lot of different fields to get there jobs done (I laught when I talk to Architects that only have been inside the programming field fer projects work well without some networking and server hardware) this is so they understand the admins issues with there blessed production gear through the marketing guys that want to be able to use every buzzword known to man to describe the end product. Remember while the sys admins know little about programming, well they are paid to keep the system up and working and protect it with there jobs programmers dont get called in at 4am generaly they do. Programmers like most tech people need an interface to keep there time free and also to represent them tot he other departments given that person and the ability to work with them you can get better products and happier programmers most of the time (granted there will be the enevitable programmer hatred of this person as they come back with the management overridden bad ideas and shrug there shoulders.)
While they seem to be the first with dual layer disks and the drives themselves are cheaper the media is more expensive. -R also seems to be more compatable with normal DVD technology.
This is a contractual issue as much as anything else. There contract dosent state they have to allow this so they dont want to without further compensation for the aditional lack or atonomy. Trust in the fact this will allow people sitting in there comphy offices with MBA's decide that they can do it more efficiently and generaly mess the whole thing up then blame the contractors for poor performance. GPS monitoring of the personal should nto be allowed on priciple want to monitor the trucks fine assuming they own them not the contractors. I still fail to see what great benifit this will serve? Figuring out that in the middle of the nigh plow drives stop for coffee to often and thus the road to dunkin donuts/crispy cream is very well plowed? In my state a lot of the plow drivers have office jobs for the DOT often they are up for 20 hour or more when plowing it's realy not a fun job but it's extra money for those workers the contributes to there pention package.
If you realy look at the difference between the low end and the high end it's not CPU speed it's GPU's RAM and hard drives. Now people have gotten used to buying based upon CPU speed even though the big diifferences is RAM I have watched people go from a 1.2 gig PIII to a 2.4 gig PIV because the PII was slow it only had 128 megs of ram and built in GPU. Seeing that a good computer was going to waste I threw in a pile of ram and a old geforce2 it now goes toe to toe with the new machines and bests it in performance. Total upgrade cost if I went to the store 150 bucks. Now granted I run a dual proc high end workstation and there is something to besaid for fast CPU's but only once you have taken care of other performacen issues.
I know this might be scary but your could just get a firewall thats understands H323 realy this has little to do with the application it's just the standard way to get it accross the internet if your "firewall" (use that term loosly for those home nat products) dosent support the standard fix it. More advanced firewalls read into the h323 packets and dynamicaly open ports for the remote site only.
OK I'm a bit biased as a CCIE but your confusing certs with experience certs have become just a test to make sure your somewhat compotent. A good hiring manager takes them for what they are just a test that shows you have a minimal ammout of education.
:) thats why your average shop dosent have any CCIE's on staff but calls them in when they make big changes.
Now the CCIE tract is more for thery and for me it was exposure to old school antiquated techs like IPX, frame relay and RIP to name a few. Many a CCIE spends there days working out thery and big broad strokes of a Network Arch not plunking away at a keyboard (we get flunkies for that, what did you thinkt he CCNA and CCNE's were for
In the US this is the way it's supposed to be but China is still officialy communist where it's from the people to the people paying for something intangable like IP is absurd in that mindset sure pay for the copy even pay enough to cover the salery of the people that made it but paying millions to sockholders and ceo's isn't inside there political mantra.
OK as somebody that can spec eletrical this is plain BS. Those cheap surge strips are not capable of dealing with large spikes due to poor grouding. Whole house units dont protect you from that 2000 watt hair drier (BTW you can not get 2000 watts out of a 15 amp plug per UL you should only draw 80% and thats 12 amps for 1320 watts max same for those vacume cleaners)
Anyway enough ranting for a good home entertainment setup you would want at least one dedicated circut perferably 20 or 30 amps if you can use the 30 amp back 20 amp front recepticals in your building code . A single line surge or UPS unit might also be a good idea (something in the nice back APC RM line but thats over a grand in UPS) especialy for the Tivo and Replay users but also for the big screen TV guys. I say UPS simple because loosing power is hell on any device while it's working and the brownouts are also hell when you remember that modern eletronics are never realy off unless unpluged remotes and all that.
Actualy you can encode your Lat and Long into your DNS record it's a pretty much unused tag but it's there. With this you could do a reverse lookup on a an IP and then forward lookup the location.
Sun boxes havent been fast in a long time hence the move to the AMD chips. Sun just dosent sell enough chips to do the billions in R&D to make a competitive chip. Now beyond the chip sun is great at putting as much IO bandwith as they can arguably second to only SGI without getting into realy esoteric hardware. Even with this said PC's have been getting better and better at IO bandwith with those FSB speeds getting cranked up and AMD with there new new multidirectional FSB.
Hrm change MAC, get new DHCP address the problem?
Your missing the point that the most effective and cheaest to impement method of blocking an address is what we call null routing. Pretty much you inject routes into whatever routing protocal your using and have them go to the bitbucket. It's very fast and efficient as you can update all your routers automaticaly in seconds and it's very friendly to there resources as routing is what they do well not running ACL's etc.
I think your problem has more to do with people have lost site of just how cheap bandwith is if you are smart about it. It's not imposible to get a bit of rack space and a 10 megabit floor on a 100bt connected billed 95 percentile for a few hundred bucks a month lets say 750-100 for a rough number this could run most well written sites medium volume sites. Add to this a the cost of a server and it's realy not that expensive. The real costs of a web site seem to be more in the web designer, reporter etc side of things lets not blame it on bandwith costs.