Lets be more fair the laws need to change if somebody is in your house unlawfully you should be able to KILL them. Now I'm not talkign some sadistic flaying of the person in the basement but leeting loose a clip into them or a good beating with whatever is around. Now it shouldent matter wheter or not they are armed as it shouldent be the home owners responcibility to look for a gun before they shoot.
Now as to cracking defacing is website nomatter what web site I can see some communiity service for the 15 year old. Unleasing some worm maybe a couple of years (assuming a 15 year old and a worm that utilizes a KNOWN security risk) There of plenty of ways to make a site VERY resilient to being defaced but most companies are unwilling to do so. I'm sorry but if I leave my keys in my car running while I pop into the corner store and some kid steals itI would want restitution for damages loaner car etc but jail time no I did something stupid call it entrapment and thats what some sites realy are doing running unpatched for 3 years with a million open ports sure lets get some financial penalties out of it but it's not something to ruin somebodies life over.
The FM tunner cards at least the one I picked up has an external antena jack and it tunes digitaly so there shouldent be much of an issue with floating signal. Granted my old Sansui dedicated tuner sounds better well I should say a bit warmer.
To bad a lot of the cheap home security keypads that all you do need to do. Code is in the keypad and GPI is wired out the back. Granted all security is for it to keep out the honest. Crooks have cordless saws all's to go through the wall of a wooden structure in under 5 minutes. And last time I checked it was pitifully easy to break through a door. It all boils down to nothing makes your house secure when nobody is in it at least nothing thats legal (booby traps are illegal in most of the US at least firemen and all that) it's funny though a bear trap past the door would seem to be significantly more effective at catching the criminals. And they say it's wrong to want a computer controled 50 cal in a cupula on the roof I call it a pigeon defense mechinism / anti terrorist device others think it's a bit strange.
PC FM tunner cards that are linux compatable (it just has one setting a 8 bit int in memory that it turns into a fm freq) and provides a line out. They are ISA dirt cheap as in 5 bucks an below at the local computer show. Assuming you not going to record on your new P4 3 ghz box with no ISA slots you should be set. If not you can use that old 386 MB with a pile of isa slots and hat it set the frequency and hook the audio up to your new PC:)
Ah but if you have noticed the Army allready seems to be suppling carps electroytes and water via a camel pack allowing easy access. Pretty much you talking about filling up the pack with gator aid or whatever the new more balanced version is. Tack on nutrients delivered over a long period and you have a pretty good solution. The fluid could just be water with a packet mixed in for the other ingredients.
Hey that and an adult diaper and you should be good to go for days:)
Well looks like Apple did do a great job they included the one feature I loved about my old school duo when back in the day it could boot any mac hardware with a SCSI port that was a great tech tool. And it seems a few places are running IP over firewire.
Actauly it dosent come close to ethernet that currently clocks in at 10 gbps. The BIG difference is that firewire is multi initiator like FC and to some extents good old SCSI meaning any 2 devices that feel like talking to each other can. USB forces the PC to be the only end point devices cant talk to devices. Now thats fine for a mouse or a keyboard. But get into HD's tape drives and camera's and it's a nice feature. In the long run this means devices can accept multiple PC's on the same bus all connecting to say a shared scanner, HD, RAID or tape drive without all the overhead of dealing with a network and servers. Now for the HD and RAID you need something like CXFS from SGI to make everybody play nice but clustered filesystems are becoming more and more avalible.
Anybody remember if you can run IP over FireWire like you can under FC? Granted I would take GE over FC but it's a nice secondary network connection and something high speed. I wonder if they will ever make the Apple laptops able to share out there HD like the old Duo systems.
Posibly they were dropping packets skipping ahead? I would assume that keeping the server PC in sync would not be an issue (no audio out at that point or no connected speakers running) as keeping the server and the playback units in sync would be a PITA and shouldent be nessicary. I have had the same problem with RA clients loosing sync with each other even on the same subnet but that has been attributed to the OS task switching and hardware differences. I think the hard part will be getting the sync right when somebody decides to use this with a Video out and three units to produce 5.1 audio. Well thats my next project anyway anybody know of a good way to combine 2 coax SPDIF outputs into one 5.1 SPDIF out that wont break the bank? (Have a long run of Fiber right now from basement to sterio thinking about replaceing / augmenting it with some of these to get whole house audio but would like to have 5.1 everywhere and I allready have ethernet to all the locations)
But it's running multicast to unless you have a HIGH end switch or a long chain of multiple switches all receivers get the packet at nearly the same time as multicast would go out via port flooding to all ports simultaniously. If your particualry worried about it put all the playback units on the same hub this will insure they all receive the packet at nearly the same time (cable length etc varying this) as they are all the same hardware they should all proccess the packet and play it back with the same delay.
Hrm it sounds like your complaining about the fact that the system is owned by the COMPANY admins are there to keep those systems well fed and cared for generaly along with implementing new features and systems performing upgrades etc. Programmers if things are done right NEVER touch the production system unless things have gone terribly wrong, granted they should have read only rights to anything that pertains to there sphere but I say read only on the honor system untill things prove otherwise. Now why do I say this because my #1 problem with programmers is documentation and training if the programmer needs to do the install or the upgrade then there product isn't finished sys admins do installs and upgrades and support the system Teir 2 support is generaly inside the sys admin land with tier 3 with the programmer that currently owns that product. Now I may have a biased view I have worked as a programmer and a sys admin and have managed each of the fields and lets sum up the generalaties as I see them:
Programmers
Allways think the hardware or system is broken and they can fix it aka I'm a better sys admin than the sys admin syndrome.
Need superuser privlages on any machine they touch including there own aka I am god you can not be god because I am the one and only god because I can program.
Allways think the best way to increase application performance besides easy things is to make the system faster aka ROI be damned it's just easy to spend more to make it work.
Sys admins
The machine is my responcibility thus the machine is mine all mine it's my sandbox and nobody else can play with it unless they ask realy nicly aka king of the hill.
Nobody else knows all the little things that I have done to make the system work aka undocumented bailing wire and bubblegum.
Users are stupid why because they ask me questions that I allready know aka if your not an admin you are dirt.
Now either side has there issues but guess what all that realy matters is that the system stay up for most companies it dosent matter that you make 3 times the salerie of the average users when they are affected by your bad programming or inability to trend and premtivly fix issues the users suffer. Admins deserve there sandbox to a point as they are the ones who get canned if things go realy bad. Programmers need the rights that they request sometimes so then can get there work done more expidiciously.
BTW yes my spelling and grammer is horid so dont complain. If you dont agree with my oppinions thats fine to they are mine and not nessicarly anybody elses.
Yup Plasma does burn in it was easy to see when these things were on all your lunchbox TV's now they are fine for watching TV but have problems with that weekend play of the PS2 and computer images. Now with this being said all the HDTV's that arent straight CRT's have this issue as well they only thing I know of that dosent have a burn in issue is DLP and that has it's own issue of it's mirror array life (can anybody find what those are rated for for running hours?) but for your money unless you particualy NEED something a few inches thick and want a huge monitor DLP costs the same looks pretty good and you cant find it at your local store as they are still running 10k ish and the retail stores dont seem to like them as there selling points are downplay there other rear projection sets.
What else is xmas for but a great time to change out a router (or a server if thats what floats your boat) Morning of the 26th is a rather low net traffic day for some people. The week after xmas is also a good time to play with you local IT shop as most people are slow or just not there.
Ah but 200 bucks a month easly covers the real cost of that meg a sec (about 100 bucks in bulk) tack on another hundred for the line, there network bits, administrative and technical overhead with some left over for profit. This sounds like an actual valid business price that makes a nice slim net margin (I'm assuming a bit here) to bad Speakeasy dosent seem to be avalible here in CT.
Even more important if they did care they can simply enact a law retroactivly disallowing payments for that IP worst thing we could do is refuse to import it and since this chip realy isnt for export from what they say they wouldent care. Soverign nation does mean something every now and again unlike what the US thinks. More importantly under the DCMA they cant look at it to tell wether or not it's covered by somebody elses patents as copyright dosent work for tech in clean envirnments.
Actualy there are a lot of companies out there that own / lease the fiber and are more than willing to get it to your location. Telcos have to lease to them at telco rates that are pretty cheap. These guys are also looking for 5 10 and 20 year commitments thats great for businesees but horid for even a home owner.
Academics have the problem of not often solving real day to day problems or bringing a product to market. Academics are just that not businessmen or engineers allthough some sideline as them and vice versa. The crux is that academics get tenure so they can explore off the wall idea's and that is a good thing. They still often dont particualy understand engineering for a business as a job vs as something hypothetical where best solutions are often not done but rather what works here and now and wont blow up in my face in the next few days/weeks/months.
OK it's running WinCE.net 4. something can do all these fun things and hrm it's running windows CE it's tiny CE is still a pig so the proc must run this thing down in what a few hours of use. I'm sorry I'm waiting for something that I can talk on etc for at least a normal 9 hour work day before recharging and not under a tower. I have a Nextel now 180 minutes of talk time not to bad but if your in a bad spot for range for a long time 48 hours of batter life on standby turns to 10.
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LOL ok yea it's posible allthough doubtfull any DSLM worth it's salt dosent forward DHCP responce packets in from the CPE and dosent forward DHCP requests out to the CPE end either. If a small ISP has missed bridge configuration 101 (Yes most DSLAM's especialy cheap ones are simply bridges) but in my state at least the DSLAM is actualy the Telco's the small ISP gets a single ATM connection into there cloud and PVC's are setup for each port to there router generaly running PPPoE to that router. The first thing you do after you get it working is get it secure (yea I know it's nice ot say secure first but for a small company working is normaly more of a priority than secure) BTW if you were to actualy worry about this they shouldent allow windows boxes turn on ICS the wrong way and you have a DHCP server on your cable modem / DSL. Oh Cable modems may have more of an issue with this they would have to filter at the cable modem or the head end (I dont think any of the cable modems can receive on there transmit frequencies at the same time so any modem to modem connection need to pass through the head end? Would like to be corrected if I'm wrong on this I dont nroamly deal with this low end gear:)
Ever thing of a good way to allow the internet to poliece itself? What do you think would happen if we get the polititians to make some blanket fine for voilating and RPC required or something similar? Collect enough uncollected fines and get a world wide enforable ISP ban. There are enough people that would be more than happy to track down spammers for cash. And they dont pay after awhile it's say by by to ISP connections world wide. Granted this will never happen our politicians would hate to let soemthing regulate itself they love to "help" us.
Am I the only one that looks at this like the list of things that will stop the telcos from making gobs of money (and of course hiding it all) DWDM works it works well and realy it's a good application of resources. Once it's in place adding circuts is easy and has not realy month to month cost just an initial cost to buy linecards and you can get a dedicated peice of fiber for less that the local loop of a DS3. It's all about the distance the in state media length runs that are the bread and butter of your average telo may go away. T1's are getting replaced by wireless and open laser for the short runs like main office to satalite office in a city etc. And lets face it DWDM lets one very important thing be done use ethernet for the connection. I can get a DWDM setup from CT to NYC in a building that has 30 IPS's or so (The old port authority building) that one run will cost me less than the local loop on a DS3. I can provition it as 100bt ethernet so each end can go to a switch and get agrigated up to the router or go to a virtual router interface on the switch itself just like a common rack and bandwith customer. Thats a cheaper connection for each side. Now I can also go to any of the 30 other IPS's and get bandwith from them the same way I get the advantages of cheaper line cards on my router they can use there existing line cards for customer access. I am also not stuck with a single provider or long buildout times to get to a new provider some fiber in the building is easy to get installed and often can be setup in days not weeks or months.
What does this boil down to getting rid of the metered bandwith middle man that the telcos are mostly because they have relied on time division muxing for so long. DWDM changes that once a single circut is provisioned you can pretty much keep adding channels as needed. This could lead to lots of mini naps being formed where carriers get some fiber into it and cross patch with customers and the funny thing is the telcos could be the perfect place they allready have buildings on nearly all the fiber runs and definatly a building every 70km or so for cheaper optics and lasers to be used. Last mile fiber could become a reality just plug your intermediate reach gbic in and get a provider on the other end a flat 100 bucks per megabit average and pay the telco for the fiber.
For this to be true those telemarketers would have horid hearing as they are listening to compressed audio for 8 hours a day 5 days a week and this has been going on for 20 years ish if not more (anybody want to find when Bell startingt compressing all the LD calls) And even worse telephones in general dont transmit full human hearing range this could have been going on for most of the last century.
Or this guy could be bitching and whining about his own problem and trying to pawn the blame off on everybody else.
Hrm homework our salvation? Granted I finished my public education in the early 90's but more homework does not seem to be what they need. First off differnt students learn best in differnt ways some may ned the wrote repition that homework provides few should. The problem is the teachers time. Students need one on one time with teachers and good mentors TA's etc. First things first throw out wrote memorization it's trash forget it it dosent work it's msotly there because it's easy for most students and they can get that happy feel good of a good test score. If you can study for a test your not doing anything. My school had end of year surprise testing for some subjects and the reality is if they werent on a curve the vast majority of the students would fail. Now there was a section of us that did well on these and a lot of these students were not A test takers, why I can only guess because we learned it not memorized reguritated and purged the infomation.
If you just upgraded your production mail server without first testing and debugging in the lab you deserve what your get. It my be my IBM upbringing but lets repeat this for everybody that looks NEVER INSTALL ANYTHING ON THE PRIMARY FIRST lab boxes and backup systems are the general canidates for this sort of thing. RedHat has made some nice kernels but they are all pretty unique to them. Granted this is a pretty time consuming method but guess what it stops failures, when it takes you a couple extra days to get upgrade X installed because you tested it this is a LOT better than spending weeks in meetings about why server Y failed and what will be done to insure it dosent happen again.
OK Am I the only one that is thinging about water cooling with external connectors so the ratiator/fan assembly can go somewhere else? I was thinging a couple diversion valves and and car radiator/fan attached with some Pex one outside the house and one in the attic/basement to get the heat and more importantly noise away from the user. This seems a lot cheaper than my current cat5 KVM extentions and a long run for the speaker wires (ok it could just be one but I havent gotten around to a speaker set that takes coax spdif in) But I could get the only moving part in the PC down to the local hard drives and i could ditch those and netboot if I went to GigE to the server.
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Lets be more fair the laws need to change if somebody is in your house unlawfully you should be able to KILL them. Now I'm not talkign some sadistic flaying of the person in the basement but leeting loose a clip into them or a good beating with whatever is around. Now it shouldent matter wheter or not they are armed as it shouldent be the home owners responcibility to look for a gun before they shoot.
Now as to cracking defacing is website nomatter what web site I can see some communiity service for the 15 year old. Unleasing some worm maybe a couple of years (assuming a 15 year old and a worm that utilizes a KNOWN security risk) There of plenty of ways to make a site VERY resilient to being defaced but most companies are unwilling to do so. I'm sorry but if I leave my keys in my car running while I pop into the corner store and some kid steals itI would want restitution for damages loaner car etc but jail time no I did something stupid call it entrapment and thats what some sites realy are doing running unpatched for 3 years with a million open ports sure lets get some financial penalties out of it but it's not something to ruin somebodies life over.
The FM tunner cards at least the one I picked up has an external antena jack and it tunes digitaly so there shouldent be much of an issue with floating signal. Granted my old Sansui dedicated tuner sounds better well I should say a bit warmer.
To bad a lot of the cheap home security keypads that all you do need to do. Code is in the keypad and GPI is wired out the back. Granted all security is for it to keep out the honest. Crooks have cordless saws all's to go through the wall of a wooden structure in under 5 minutes. And last time I checked it was pitifully easy to break through a door. It all boils down to nothing makes your house secure when nobody is in it at least nothing thats legal (booby traps are illegal in most of the US at least firemen and all that) it's funny though a bear trap past the door would seem to be significantly more effective at catching the criminals. And they say it's wrong to want a computer controled 50 cal in a cupula on the roof I call it a pigeon defense mechinism / anti terrorist device others think it's a bit strange.
PC FM tunner cards that are linux compatable (it just has one setting a 8 bit int in memory that it turns into a fm freq) and provides a line out. They are ISA dirt cheap as in 5 bucks an below at the local computer show. Assuming you not going to record on your new P4 3 ghz box with no ISA slots you should be set. If not you can use that old 386 MB with a pile of isa slots and hat it set the frequency and hook the audio up to your new PC :)
Ah but if you have noticed the Army allready seems to be suppling carps electroytes and water via a camel pack allowing easy access. Pretty much you talking about filling up the pack with gator aid or whatever the new more balanced version is. Tack on nutrients delivered over a long period and you have a pretty good solution. The fluid could just be water with a packet mixed in for the other ingredients.
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Hey that and an adult diaper and you should be good to go for days
Well looks like Apple did do a great job they included the one feature I loved about my old school duo when back in the day it could boot any mac hardware with a SCSI port that was a great tech tool. And it seems a few places are running IP over firewire.
Actauly it dosent come close to ethernet that currently clocks in at 10 gbps. The BIG difference is that firewire is multi initiator like FC and to some extents good old SCSI meaning any 2 devices that feel like talking to each other can. USB forces the PC to be the only end point devices cant talk to devices. Now thats fine for a mouse or a keyboard. But get into HD's tape drives and camera's and it's a nice feature. In the long run this means devices can accept multiple PC's on the same bus all connecting to say a shared scanner, HD, RAID or tape drive without all the overhead of dealing with a network and servers. Now for the HD and RAID you need something like CXFS from SGI to make everybody play nice but clustered filesystems are becoming more and more avalible.
Anybody remember if you can run IP over FireWire like you can under FC? Granted I would take GE over FC but it's a nice secondary network connection and something high speed. I wonder if they will ever make the Apple laptops able to share out there HD like the old Duo systems.
Posibly they were dropping packets skipping ahead? I would assume that keeping the server PC in sync would not be an issue (no audio out at that point or no connected speakers running) as keeping the server and the playback units in sync would be a PITA and shouldent be nessicary. I have had the same problem with RA clients loosing sync with each other even on the same subnet but that has been attributed to the OS task switching and hardware differences. I think the hard part will be getting the sync right when somebody decides to use this with a Video out and three units to produce 5.1 audio. Well thats my next project anyway anybody know of a good way to combine 2 coax SPDIF outputs into one 5.1 SPDIF out that wont break the bank? (Have a long run of Fiber right now from basement to sterio thinking about replaceing / augmenting it with some of these to get whole house audio but would like to have 5.1 everywhere and I allready have ethernet to all the locations)
But it's running multicast to unless you have a HIGH end switch or a long chain of multiple switches all receivers get the packet at nearly the same time as multicast would go out via port flooding to all ports simultaniously. If your particualry worried about it put all the playback units on the same hub this will insure they all receive the packet at nearly the same time (cable length etc varying this) as they are all the same hardware they should all proccess the packet and play it back with the same delay.
Hrm it sounds like your complaining about the fact that the system is owned by the COMPANY admins are there to keep those systems well fed and cared for generaly along with implementing new features and systems performing upgrades etc. Programmers if things are done right NEVER touch the production system unless things have gone terribly wrong, granted they should have read only rights to anything that pertains to there sphere but I say read only on the honor system untill things prove otherwise. Now why do I say this because my #1 problem with programmers is documentation and training if the programmer needs to do the install or the upgrade then there product isn't finished sys admins do installs and upgrades and support the system Teir 2 support is generaly inside the sys admin land with tier 3 with the programmer that currently owns that product. Now I may have a biased view I have worked as a programmer and a sys admin and have managed each of the fields and lets sum up the generalaties as I see them:
Programmers
Allways think the hardware or system is broken and they can fix it aka I'm a better sys admin than the sys admin syndrome.
Need superuser privlages on any machine they touch including there own aka I am god you can not be god because I am the one and only god because I can program.
Allways think the best way to increase application performance besides easy things is to make the system faster aka ROI be damned it's just easy to spend more to make it work.
Sys admins
The machine is my responcibility thus the machine is mine all mine it's my sandbox and nobody else can play with it unless they ask realy nicly aka king of the hill.
Nobody else knows all the little things that I have done to make the system work aka undocumented bailing wire and bubblegum.
Users are stupid why because they ask me questions that I allready know aka if your not an admin you are dirt.
Now either side has there issues but guess what all that realy matters is that the system stay up for most companies it dosent matter that you make 3 times the salerie of the average users when they are affected by your bad programming or inability to trend and premtivly fix issues the users suffer. Admins deserve there sandbox to a point as they are the ones who get canned if things go realy bad. Programmers need the rights that they request sometimes so then can get there work done more expidiciously.
BTW yes my spelling and grammer is horid so dont complain. If you dont agree with my oppinions thats fine to they are mine and not nessicarly anybody elses.
Yup Plasma does burn in it was easy to see when these things were on all your lunchbox TV's now they are fine for watching TV but have problems with that weekend play of the PS2 and computer images. Now with this being said all the HDTV's that arent straight CRT's have this issue as well they only thing I know of that dosent have a burn in issue is DLP and that has it's own issue of it's mirror array life (can anybody find what those are rated for for running hours?) but for your money unless you particualy NEED something a few inches thick and want a huge monitor DLP costs the same looks pretty good and you cant find it at your local store as they are still running 10k ish and the retail stores dont seem to like them as there selling points are downplay there other rear projection sets.
What else is xmas for but a great time to change out a router (or a server if thats what floats your boat) Morning of the 26th is a rather low net traffic day for some people. The week after xmas is also a good time to play with you local IT shop as most people are slow or just not there.
Ah but 200 bucks a month easly covers the real cost of that meg a sec (about 100 bucks in bulk) tack on another hundred for the line, there network bits, administrative and technical overhead with some left over for profit. This sounds like an actual valid business price that makes a nice slim net margin (I'm assuming a bit here) to bad Speakeasy dosent seem to be avalible here in CT.
Even more important if they did care they can simply enact a law retroactivly disallowing payments for that IP worst thing we could do is refuse to import it and since this chip realy isnt for export from what they say they wouldent care. Soverign nation does mean something every now and again unlike what the US thinks. More importantly under the DCMA they cant look at it to tell wether or not it's covered by somebody elses patents as copyright dosent work for tech in clean envirnments.
Actualy there are a lot of companies out there that own / lease the fiber and are more than willing to get it to your location. Telcos have to lease to them at telco rates that are pretty cheap. These guys are also looking for 5 10 and 20 year commitments thats great for businesees but horid for even a home owner.
Academics have the problem of not often solving real day to day problems or bringing a product to market. Academics are just that not businessmen or engineers allthough some sideline as them and vice versa. The crux is that academics get tenure so they can explore off the wall idea's and that is a good thing. They still often dont particualy understand engineering for a business as a job vs as something hypothetical where best solutions are often not done but rather what works here and now and wont blow up in my face in the next few days/weeks/months.
OK it's running WinCE.net 4. something can do all these fun things and hrm it's running windows CE it's tiny CE is still a pig so the proc must run this thing down in what a few hours of use. I'm sorry I'm waiting for something that I can talk on etc for at least a normal 9 hour work day before recharging and not under a tower. I have a Nextel now 180 minutes of talk time not to bad but if your in a bad spot for range for a long time 48 hours of batter life on standby turns to 10.
LOL ok yea it's posible allthough doubtfull any DSLM worth it's salt dosent forward DHCP responce packets in from the CPE and dosent forward DHCP requests out to the CPE end either. If a small ISP has missed bridge configuration 101 (Yes most DSLAM's especialy cheap ones are simply bridges) but in my state at least the DSLAM is actualy the Telco's the small ISP gets a single ATM connection into there cloud and PVC's are setup for each port to there router generaly running PPPoE to that router. The first thing you do after you get it working is get it secure (yea I know it's nice ot say secure first but for a small company working is normaly more of a priority than secure) BTW if you were to actualy worry about this they shouldent allow windows boxes turn on ICS the wrong way and you have a DHCP server on your cable modem / DSL. Oh Cable modems may have more of an issue with this they would have to filter at the cable modem or the head end (I dont think any of the cable modems can receive on there transmit frequencies at the same time so any modem to modem connection need to pass through the head end? Would like to be corrected if I'm wrong on this I dont nroamly deal with this low end gear :)
Hrm or more correctly that the vast majority of Profs dont have a clue about much anything in the real world.
Ever thing of a good way to allow the internet to poliece itself? What do you think would happen if we get the polititians to make some blanket fine for voilating and RPC required or something similar? Collect enough uncollected fines and get a world wide enforable ISP ban. There are enough people that would be more than happy to track down spammers for cash. And they dont pay after awhile it's say by by to ISP connections world wide. Granted this will never happen our politicians would hate to let soemthing regulate itself they love to "help" us.
Am I the only one that looks at this like the list of things that will stop the telcos from making gobs of money (and of course hiding it all) DWDM works it works well and realy it's a good application of resources. Once it's in place adding circuts is easy and has not realy month to month cost just an initial cost to buy linecards and you can get a dedicated peice of fiber for less that the local loop of a DS3. It's all about the distance the in state media length runs that are the bread and butter of your average telo may go away. T1's are getting replaced by wireless and open laser for the short runs like main office to satalite office in a city etc. And lets face it DWDM lets one very important thing be done use ethernet for the connection. I can get a DWDM setup from CT to NYC in a building that has 30 IPS's or so (The old port authority building) that one run will cost me less than the local loop on a DS3. I can provition it as 100bt ethernet so each end can go to a switch and get agrigated up to the router or go to a virtual router interface on the switch itself just like a common rack and bandwith customer. Thats a cheaper connection for each side. Now I can also go to any of the 30 other IPS's and get bandwith from them the same way I get the advantages of cheaper line cards on my router they can use there existing line cards for customer access. I am also not stuck with a single provider or long buildout times to get to a new provider some fiber in the building is easy to get installed and often can be setup in days not weeks or months.
What does this boil down to getting rid of the metered bandwith middle man that the telcos are mostly because they have relied on time division muxing for so long. DWDM changes that once a single circut is provisioned you can pretty much keep adding channels as needed. This could lead to lots of mini naps being formed where carriers get some fiber into it and cross patch with customers and the funny thing is the telcos could be the perfect place they allready have buildings on nearly all the fiber runs and definatly a building every 70km or so for cheaper optics and lasers to be used. Last mile fiber could become a reality just plug your intermediate reach gbic in and get a provider on the other end a flat 100 bucks per megabit average and pay the telco for the fiber.
For this to be true those telemarketers would have horid hearing as they are listening to compressed audio for 8 hours a day 5 days a week and this has been going on for 20 years ish if not more (anybody want to find when Bell startingt compressing all the LD calls) And even worse telephones in general dont transmit full human hearing range this could have been going on for most of the last century.
Or this guy could be bitching and whining about his own problem and trying to pawn the blame off on everybody else.
Hrm wiich sounds more plausable.
Hrm homework our salvation? Granted I finished my public education in the early 90's but more homework does not seem to be what they need. First off differnt students learn best in differnt ways some may ned the wrote repition that homework provides few should. The problem is the teachers time. Students need one on one time with teachers and good mentors TA's etc. First things first throw out wrote memorization it's trash forget it it dosent work it's msotly there because it's easy for most students and they can get that happy feel good of a good test score. If you can study for a test your not doing anything. My school had end of year surprise testing for some subjects and the reality is if they werent on a curve the vast majority of the students would fail. Now there was a section of us that did well on these and a lot of these students were not A test takers, why I can only guess because we learned it not memorized reguritated and purged the infomation.
If you just upgraded your production mail server without first testing and debugging in the lab you deserve what your get. It my be my IBM upbringing but lets repeat this for everybody that looks NEVER INSTALL ANYTHING ON THE PRIMARY FIRST lab boxes and backup systems are the general canidates for this sort of thing. RedHat has made some nice kernels but they are all pretty unique to them. Granted this is a pretty time consuming method but guess what it stops failures, when it takes you a couple extra days to get upgrade X installed because you tested it this is a LOT better than spending weeks in meetings about why server Y failed and what will be done to insure it dosent happen again.
OK Am I the only one that is thinging about water cooling with external connectors so the ratiator/fan assembly can go somewhere else? I was thinging a couple diversion valves and and car radiator/fan attached with some Pex one outside the house and one in the attic/basement to get the heat and more importantly noise away from the user. This seems a lot cheaper than my current cat5 KVM extentions and a long run for the speaker wires (ok it could just be one but I havent gotten around to a speaker set that takes coax spdif in) But I could get the only moving part in the PC down to the local hard drives and i could ditch those and netboot if I went to GigE to the server.