400 or so desktops might be one or two people at worst. As to the os install bits, I did that gig 15 years ago and had automated remote installs with one floppy, PXE gets rid of the floppy. I mean it the oh no my machine got eaten by a virus should be no harder than a please reboot hit f12 and go get a drink. In the background you should have setup the machine to PXE boot into the virus scanner image and exported it's VNC session to your desktop across the site to site VPN. Find anything that you dont like and ghost to box from the same image. If your not there yet your not working efficiently just longer and harder. There are four types of IT admins ones that will do the same thing over and over, one that try and automate and spend more time automating than they saved, one that try and avoid doing any work and get others to automate it for them and ones that automate and save time; hire as many of the last type as you can find.
As to your lack of finding good people, get cheap right out of school labor, put them to work taking tier one stuff, things that you can script and take the load off the guys above them, the good ones will start scripting and automating to make there life easier. These guys are the cheap labor that will a good environment will excel, do make sure you have a test lab they have access to cheap vmware server on top of Linux works wonders.
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Yes I do, entering 7 digits from memory is faster than popping up contacts typing in the first few letters, selecting the right phone (mobile or home or work etc) I can dial numbers of a phone without looking or much thought, my contact list is solely in the phone for caller ID and voice dialing while driving with a headset.
Sounds like your registrar made a deal with vivendi(sp) or similar I worked at a hosting/domain shop and they were very aggressive in wanting to buy a lot of our expiring domains for parking page ads. Look at it this way about half of domains names registered are left to expire, now the ones that had content can make back there registration fee's and more in the next year with search engine spam parking pages and the like, not much more but some. I say this because an expired domain name should go nowhere at all until the mandatory hold by verisign has expired and it is deleted.
Now with that being said, as long as your contact info is still in whois for the domain you can work with the receiving registrar to get it transfered, I would suggest paying for Verisign or similar as a cut rate registrar isn't gong to spend the time to make 50 cents and you can transfer to a cut rate company after that. If your name isn't on the whois but the object creation date is still when your bought it then it has been stolen check the change logs to see when your name was removed.
Actually all you need to do to get a cert is sign a piece of paper saying you will do all the checks and take the risk and they you can get a trusted cert for anything. Well you also need a valid D&B number with some history on it (couple years). Last I checked I am supposed to be able to get these new certs with the same technical level of protection, just more paperwork to promise to have but never get checked. So this really just sounds like another scam and maybe setting the bar marginally higher.
Some of the DC's I have worked with have moved to natural gas generators and some big bottles of gas as well. I have seen one that went as far as a diesel and a NG genset in a Nx2 setup. The nice thing about BG and LP is you can bury the tanks easily.
Lining up a pile of projects gets to be unworkable you can spend 10 hours getting 10 hours of projects setup. It's one thing to send in a quick bid it's another to make a living doing it. Assuming a 40 hour work week with an average of 20 billable hours and then taking into account overhead for insurance, legal fees (have to collect on those that don't want to pay) etc 3-4 times normal salary is about normal. Whats worse most are looking for bids on projects with no real scope and bids should always be more than the estimated man hours and billable rate as it's a fixed bid with a nebulous spec.
10 hours work 500 bucks 50 bucks an hour thats not much for consulting work. The prices on RAC in general were less that what you can telecommute a contract on dice for.
Windmill check Water Wheel check Atmospheric engine , realy would you need this steam power is nice and all. mining need referance materials smelting need refeance charcoal check carts check harnesses check rock use check farming check
So one person and I'm scoring 70%, and not to sure the reming three are that usefull metal wont go away so simple blacksmithing is all thats needed (not that hard to do) smelting has it's uses and steam power uing recipricating parts might be usefull but lets try and skip back to rotation as it's what most of our current infrastructure is built on. Now I'm a somehwat bright suburban raised ex boyscout not exactly rare.
Welcome to the life of a domain sales company. To avoid loosing safe harbor anybody that complains about a domain and includes the required verbage will take the site down and the countermand from the client will get it back up just as fast.
Current corp ghosting using a VLK key is pretty easy the key stays in the image and they get prompted for machine name etc on bootup. I would assume they will have to keep the VLK edition going as a lot of large corps have pollicies against things phoning home with encrypted traffic or at all. Depending on how your rabid legal team reads them Hippa and SOX could require not allowing machines to contact anybody with encrypted traffic outside of the company.
Mostly PXE booting, it's a lot easier to track a mac address on a central server and keep the configuration specifics there. But the PXE boots for windows mostly would end up ghosting the server with a generic windows build as RIS was not an option at the time though I hear you can do it with 2003. Funny though they dislike imaging when it seems they moved to it for vista installs.
That would be a lot of servers, I ran a 2500 server shop for a few years and I think I can cound motherboard swap outs on my hands. Hard drives 10-20 a day memory a few a week power supplies about the same but motherboards generaly lasted till the server got decommisioned. Now we did move an OS from one box to another very often and this whole activation garbage would be annoying.
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There is nothing that is part of IPv6 that will remove the requirement for NAT, yes there are more usable addresses but there is not requirment for your cable / DSL / whatever provider to give you more than one. Just like now many will be happy to charge you more for additional IP's but dont have to give them out.
Qos is part of IPv6 but again not garenteed between prodivers and actualy should not be allowed as it's to easy to abuse.
Multicast is a great tool for Video etc, and untill it can be billed for no provider is going to let one DSL user consume there uplink speed on potentialy every link they have.
This is not technology that the end user providers are looking to implement it makes there jobs harder not easier with no increase in revenue.
Funny I have a fairly smart firewall meaning PC's at my home and be used as supernodes leave skype turned on for any ammount of time and I can watch my uplink bandwith max out to what QOS allows for unknown traffic. I run SIP with ENUM and strangley anybody else with SIP and ENUM can call be for free without any other service provider involved in the call past ENUM. Sure you can tap the phone call but you can tap land lines and Skype for that matter.
I think your missing the point in the US. Visa makes money on CC fraud it's a $35 fee on every chargeback and the chargeback is for the full ammount not the 2%ish removed. Visa like to make everybody think they are being the nice guy and eating the costs but realy they are just fleecing the vendors that are stuck paying the bill or not accepting CC and loosing that business.
Now I would love to be able to have ecards they would be perfect if they accepted anything as the billing address (something it took forever to get my bank to do)
OK first of 2800 series routers realy dont have much in the asic department they realy are software routers with some asics avalible to speed up things like crypto. Realy a PC can deal with just about anything that a sub 7200 can handle. Latency might be a bit higher but that could be solved with some firmware as x86 procs are not happy dealing with gigabit speeds and min MTU sized packets due to the number of interupts generated, now I would not want to do that with a 2800 either.
The problem with PC's is more that the only inferfaces that you can get are ethernet and if your going to compare a PC to a 65xx series switch it's going to get burried of course it also costs 10-20 times more than a good pc server.
Now a 3550 that has an EMI image would be the closest thing to a PC it's about 4-7k with 24 fast e ports or 12 gig ports the server your going ot need to route 24 gigs of traffic is gong to cost more than that from a Dell or HP as your talking about a lot of slots (5 2 port gig cards plus the onboard pair) and is going to need 3GB a sec of backplane and memory access just for traffic and I dont even want to think about the interupts per second.
Cisco has it's place and it's not low density localy manged 100bt routing.
Ah but the point would be any system where the cop is assumed to be correct is by definition unfair. Assuming the cop to be incorrect also has it's issues. Monetary damages after the fact dont fix the situation, untill judges have the power to fire cops they are insulated from any wrong doing that isn't a felany and even thats iffy (undercover cops regulary engage in criminal activity to catch the big fish) your not going to see the system get any better. Cops abuse power because they can and there is a culture of doing so. I dont fault the individual cops like most humans they are trying to do there job with as little effort as required.
The biggest thing ReplayTv lacked was no directv intergration allowing for no loss of information with A/D conversion. It was a better product that stoped wanting to be a product. Tivo S3 will be the first non directivo that is intersting and it's a great big TBD how much cable labs made them newter it to be cable card compatable.
I've worked with most big ISP's and worked inside a few mid sized ones. Here is the usual series of events:
Senerio 1,
buy a decent sized pipe to rented location install servers and spam away get abuse reports for the IP block and ignore provider above starts getting abuse and tells client to look into issue client come back with they are opt in, it was a virus, it was one of our clients and we told him no and canned him repeat above till provider kicks them off or disconnects for non payment move to new location and name repeat
Senerio 2
get dedicated server via stolen credit card spam away till is shut down repeat with new card
Now I have seen more of the second senerio and some of this looks automated where they literly script your signup forms and just keep inserting different card. Best way to stop this one was to verify card info on first abuse complaint, unfortunatly it costs to much to verify every new account at $10 a month and still have a profit.
The grandparent is correct if your talking about tangable items, abit missing option 3 make one yourself. When talking about intangable items that are protected soly by copyright then protest is an option as it's an artificial market, createted soly by copyright law.
OK I'm a Directv subscriber with a hr10-250 since they shipped. The HR20 is missing:
Content export / import, Properly transcoded and upsampled content looks great on output and export HD looks great as well.
Sugestions, My tivo figures out most new shows that I might like and records them, it's good enough that I stopped looking for content to record.
Tivo extra's, I love being able to review email, weather rss feeds etc on my HDVR2 with 6.2 code on it. Pictures and MP3's are also quite usefull. Please dont quote the will be enabled in the future bit as Directv took that stance with the tivo's and 6.x code.
Realy the only good thing about Directv of late is the rumor that 6.3 will be released for the hr10-250 and the hopes that the community will fix the functions that were not implemented.
Oh yea as far as price directv is about 100 a month with the full package my cable company is the same price and that included cable internet so thats 500 a year in savings enough to amoritze the cost of tivo and take care of the monthly subscription. Tivo has these issues and Directivo had the possibility of being the killer app but thats not the road they took.
And you attend this university why? Realy it's school you pay to go there adn thus should be able to do as you please. If you can pass the tests by knowing the material thats great as it's the point of the class. Good teachers might test on everything that you should have learned up to the point of the test rather than everything since last test to make sure people learned the subject rather than crammed.
As somebody that works with 12ks lets go through your assuptions:
The 12k does a lot more than 10gbps a top end is 1.28tbps ciscos 12k comparison page 20gbps is the slot speed and you can get multiple ports per slot 16 slots per chassie. Now 12k are not the most cost effective method to agrigate traffic ethernet switches do similar traffic levels for one tenth the price and a lot more ports.
Costing for a 12k is about 500k outfitted with some line cards, realy they are the most expensive parts easly 50k per card.
Max density is 2x what your numbers were based upon but since you need that to interconnect with somewhere it's still valid but thats only one slot so multiply by 15 to get a full chassie and a route processor so 3333 users per slot (using round numbers) or 50k users per chassie the chassie fully outfitted will pay for itself in less than a month. Routers of this size your looking at at least 7 years of usefull service.
Now the next big argument is the price of bandwith, it's not cheap but at the same time tier one networks dont pay for transit so only some ISP's are buying bandwith and some are getting paid to provide access to there users.
Funny I install big networks for a living, 3 megs a sec is 90 bucks a month from cogent (yea I know they have issues and yes thats ISP rate not end user ($30)) now granted you have to be looking for at least 100bt if not a gigabit ethernet over fiber handoff. At the low end a DS3 can be hand with bandwith for 5k thats a little over $110 per megabit and froma major carrier (I have done those with MCI and AT&T) Bandwith gets cheaper and cheaper as you buy more and more, getting into overly long contracts and buying incrementaly rather than with a strategic plan gets ISP's into bad agreements and pricing plans. Realy bittorrent should be a boon to larger ISP's as it will allow the ratio's needed to get into statement free peering relationships.
The levels of oversubscription on some ISP's are just insane my previous cable company had a 512kbs cap per user (90 homes per channel not over subscribed) and had problem providing that to there head end at peak times. ISP's are going to 100x ratios and investing mroe in help desk and fixes than just getting more bandwith.
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400 or so desktops might be one or two people at worst. As to the os install bits, I did that gig 15 years ago and had automated remote installs with one floppy, PXE gets rid of the floppy. I mean it the oh no my machine got eaten by a virus should be no harder than a please reboot hit f12 and go get a drink. In the background you should have setup the machine to PXE boot into the virus scanner image and exported it's VNC session to your desktop across the site to site VPN. Find anything that you dont like and ghost to box from the same image. If your not there yet your not working efficiently just longer and harder. There are four types of IT admins ones that will do the same thing over and over, one that try and automate and spend more time automating than they saved, one that try and avoid doing any work and get others to automate it for them and ones that automate and save time; hire as many of the last type as you can find.
As to your lack of finding good people, get cheap right out of school labor, put them to work taking tier one stuff, things that you can script and take the load off the guys above them, the good ones will start scripting and automating to make there life easier. These guys are the cheap labor that will a good environment will excel, do make sure you have a test lab they have access to cheap vmware server on top of Linux works wonders.
Yes I do, entering 7 digits from memory is faster than popping up contacts typing in the first few letters, selecting the right phone (mobile or home or work etc) I can dial numbers of a phone without looking or much thought, my contact list is solely in the phone for caller ID and voice dialing while driving with a headset.
Sounds like your registrar made a deal with vivendi(sp) or similar I worked at a hosting/domain shop and they were very aggressive in wanting to buy a lot of our expiring domains for parking page ads. Look at it this way about half of domains names registered are left to expire, now the ones that had content can make back there registration fee's and more in the next year with search engine spam parking pages and the like, not much more but some. I say this because an expired domain name should go nowhere at all until the mandatory hold by verisign has expired and it is deleted.
Now with that being said, as long as your contact info is still in whois for the domain you can work with the receiving registrar to get it transfered, I would suggest paying for Verisign or similar as a cut rate registrar isn't gong to spend the time to make 50 cents and you can transfer to a cut rate company after that. If your name isn't on the whois but the object creation date is still when your bought it then it has been stolen check the change logs to see when your name was removed.
Cisco "fixed" that issue in later software by checking and only working with the cisco ones.
Actually all you need to do to get a cert is sign a piece of paper saying you will do all the checks and take the risk and they you can get a trusted cert for anything. Well you also need a valid D&B number with some history on it (couple years). Last I checked I am supposed to be able to get these new certs with the same technical level of protection, just more paperwork to promise to have but never get checked. So this really just sounds like another scam and maybe setting the bar marginally higher.
Some of the DC's I have worked with have moved to natural gas generators and some big bottles of gas as well. I have seen one that went as far as a diesel and a NG genset in a Nx2 setup. The nice thing about BG and LP is you can bury the tanks easily.
Lining up a pile of projects gets to be unworkable you can spend 10 hours getting 10 hours of projects setup. It's one thing to send in a quick bid it's another to make a living doing it. Assuming a 40 hour work week with an average of 20 billable hours and then taking into account overhead for insurance, legal fees (have to collect on those that don't want to pay) etc 3-4 times normal salary is about normal. Whats worse most are looking for bids on projects with no real scope and bids should always be more than the estimated man hours and billable rate as it's a fixed bid with a nebulous spec.
10 hours work 500 bucks 50 bucks an hour thats not much for consulting work. The prices on RAC in general were less that what you can telecommute a contract on dice for.
Windmill check
Water Wheel check
Atmospheric engine , realy would you need this steam power is nice and all.
mining need referance materials
smelting need refeance
charcoal check
carts check
harnesses check
rock use check
farming check
So one person and I'm scoring 70%, and not to sure the reming three are that usefull metal wont go away so simple blacksmithing is all thats needed (not that hard to do) smelting has it's uses and steam power uing recipricating parts might be usefull but lets try and skip back to rotation as it's what most of our current infrastructure is built on. Now I'm a somehwat bright suburban raised ex boyscout not exactly rare.
Welcome to the life of a domain sales company. To avoid loosing safe harbor anybody that complains about a domain and includes the required verbage will take the site down and the countermand from the client will get it back up just as fast.
Current corp ghosting using a VLK key is pretty easy the key stays in the image and they get prompted for machine name etc on bootup. I would assume they will have to keep the VLK edition going as a lot of large corps have pollicies against things phoning home with encrypted traffic or at all. Depending on how your rabid legal team reads them Hippa and SOX could require not allowing machines to contact anybody with encrypted traffic outside of the company.
Mostly PXE booting, it's a lot easier to track a mac address on a central server and keep the configuration specifics there. But the PXE boots for windows mostly would end up ghosting the server with a generic windows build as RIS was not an option at the time though I hear you can do it with 2003. Funny though they dislike imaging when it seems they moved to it for vista installs.
That would be a lot of servers, I ran a 2500 server shop for a few years and I think I can cound motherboard swap outs on my hands. Hard drives 10-20 a day memory a few a week power supplies about the same but motherboards generaly lasted till the server got decommisioned. Now we did move an OS from one box to another very often and this whole activation garbage would be annoying.
There is nothing that is part of IPv6 that will remove the requirement for NAT, yes there are more usable addresses but there is not requirment for your cable / DSL / whatever provider to give you more than one. Just like now many will be happy to charge you more for additional IP's but dont have to give them out.
Qos is part of IPv6 but again not garenteed between prodivers and actualy should not be allowed as it's to easy to abuse.
Multicast is a great tool for Video etc, and untill it can be billed for no provider is going to let one DSL user consume there uplink speed on potentialy every link they have.
This is not technology that the end user providers are looking to implement it makes there jobs harder not easier with no increase in revenue.
Funny I have a fairly smart firewall meaning PC's at my home and be used as supernodes leave skype turned on for any ammount of time and I can watch my uplink bandwith max out to what QOS allows for unknown traffic. I run SIP with ENUM and strangley anybody else with SIP and ENUM can call be for free without any other service provider involved in the call past ENUM. Sure you can tap the phone call but you can tap land lines and Skype for that matter.
I think your missing the point in the US. Visa makes money on CC fraud it's a $35 fee on every chargeback and the chargeback is for the full ammount not the 2%ish removed. Visa like to make everybody think they are being the nice guy and eating the costs but realy they are just fleecing the vendors that are stuck paying the bill or not accepting CC and loosing that business.
Now I would love to be able to have ecards they would be perfect if they accepted anything as the billing address (something it took forever to get my bank to do)
OK first of 2800 series routers realy dont have much in the asic department they realy are software routers with some asics avalible to speed up things like crypto. Realy a PC can deal with just about anything that a sub 7200 can handle. Latency might be a bit higher but that could be solved with some firmware as x86 procs are not happy dealing with gigabit speeds and min MTU sized packets due to the number of interupts generated, now I would not want to do that with a 2800 either.
The problem with PC's is more that the only inferfaces that you can get are ethernet and if your going to compare a PC to a 65xx series switch it's going to get burried of course it also costs 10-20 times more than a good pc server.
Now a 3550 that has an EMI image would be the closest thing to a PC it's about 4-7k with 24 fast e ports or 12 gig ports the server your going ot need to route 24 gigs of traffic is gong to cost more than that from a Dell or HP as your talking about a lot of slots (5 2 port gig cards plus the onboard pair) and is going to need 3GB a sec of backplane and memory access just for traffic and I dont even want to think about the interupts per second.
Cisco has it's place and it's not low density localy manged 100bt routing.
Ah but the point would be any system where the cop is assumed to be correct is by definition unfair. Assuming the cop to be incorrect also has it's issues. Monetary damages after the fact dont fix the situation, untill judges have the power to fire cops they are insulated from any wrong doing that isn't a felany and even thats iffy (undercover cops regulary engage in criminal activity to catch the big fish) your not going to see the system get any better. Cops abuse power because they can and there is a culture of doing so. I dont fault the individual cops like most humans they are trying to do there job with as little effort as required.
The biggest thing ReplayTv lacked was no directv intergration allowing for no loss of information with A/D conversion. It was a better product that stoped wanting to be a product. Tivo S3 will be the first non directivo that is intersting and it's a great big TBD how much cable labs made them newter it to be cable card compatable.
I've worked with most big ISP's and worked inside a few mid sized ones. Here is the usual series of events:
Senerio 1,
buy a decent sized pipe to rented location
install servers and spam away
get abuse reports for the IP block and ignore
provider above starts getting abuse and tells client to look into issue
client come back with they are opt in, it was a virus, it was one of our clients and we told him no and canned him
repeat above till provider kicks them off or disconnects for non payment
move to new location and name repeat
Senerio 2
get dedicated server via stolen credit card
spam away till is shut down
repeat with new card
Now I have seen more of the second senerio and some of this looks automated where they literly script your signup forms and just keep inserting different card. Best way to stop this one was to verify card info on first abuse complaint, unfortunatly it costs to much to verify every new account at $10 a month and still have a profit.
The grandparent is correct if your talking about tangable items, abit missing option 3 make one yourself. When talking about intangable items that are protected soly by copyright then protest is an option as it's an artificial market, createted soly by copyright law.
OK I'm a Directv subscriber with a hr10-250 since they shipped. The HR20 is missing:
Content export / import, Properly transcoded and upsampled content looks great on output and export HD looks great as well.
Sugestions, My tivo figures out most new shows that I might like and records them, it's good enough that I stopped looking for content to record.
Tivo extra's, I love being able to review email, weather rss feeds etc on my HDVR2 with 6.2 code on it. Pictures and MP3's are also quite usefull. Please dont quote the will be enabled in the future bit as Directv took that stance with the tivo's and 6.x code.
Realy the only good thing about Directv of late is the rumor that 6.3 will be released for the hr10-250 and the hopes that the community will fix the functions that were not implemented.
Oh yea as far as price directv is about 100 a month with the full package my cable company is the same price and that included cable internet so thats 500 a year in savings enough to amoritze the cost of tivo and take care of the monthly subscription. Tivo has these issues and Directivo had the possibility of being the killer app but thats not the road they took.
And you attend this university why? Realy it's school you pay to go there adn thus should be able to do as you please. If you can pass the tests by knowing the material thats great as it's the point of the class. Good teachers might test on everything that you should have learned up to the point of the test rather than everything since last test to make sure people learned the subject rather than crammed.
As somebody that works with 12ks lets go through your assuptions:
The 12k does a lot more than 10gbps a top end is 1.28tbps ciscos 12k comparison page 20gbps is the slot speed and you can get multiple ports per slot 16 slots per chassie. Now 12k are not the most cost effective method to agrigate traffic ethernet switches do similar traffic levels for one tenth the price and a lot more ports.
Costing for a 12k is about 500k outfitted with some line cards, realy they are the most expensive parts easly 50k per card.
Max density is 2x what your numbers were based upon but since you need that to interconnect with somewhere it's still valid but thats only one slot so multiply by 15 to get a full chassie and a route processor so 3333 users per slot (using round numbers) or 50k users per chassie the chassie fully outfitted will pay for itself in less than a month. Routers of this size your looking at at least 7 years of usefull service.
Now the next big argument is the price of bandwith, it's not cheap but at the same time tier one networks dont pay for transit so only some ISP's are buying bandwith and some are getting paid to provide access to there users.
Funny I install big networks for a living, 3 megs a sec is 90 bucks a month from cogent (yea I know they have issues and yes thats ISP rate not end user ($30)) now granted you have to be looking for at least 100bt if not a gigabit ethernet over fiber handoff. At the low end a DS3 can be hand with bandwith for 5k thats a little over $110 per megabit and froma major carrier (I have done those with MCI and AT&T) Bandwith gets cheaper and cheaper as you buy more and more, getting into overly long contracts and buying incrementaly rather than with a strategic plan gets ISP's into bad agreements and pricing plans. Realy bittorrent should be a boon to larger ISP's as it will allow the ratio's needed to get into statement free peering relationships.
The levels of oversubscription on some ISP's are just insane my previous cable company had a 512kbs cap per user (90 homes per channel not over subscribed) and had problem providing that to there head end at peak times. ISP's are going to 100x ratios and investing mroe in help desk and fixes than just getting more bandwith.