Ha! LOL - When I managed IT - MCSE meant squat. It usually inidcated someone with book expereiince but no real field experieince which is what we craved. Sure there were gurus with MCSE, but I'd take someone who showed a hackers instinct with a couple years experieince than some random with MCSE and the same experience.
Overall I found certifications were often overrated, or better put there were SOMETIMES better candidates without certs who had lived with teh stuff vs someone from another IT area who took cert course X to expand his horizons.
Well, given that you can't sign up for cheap DSL and provide your own modem:) I doubt you could use them for DSL again, but I'm sure there are hacks out there for them and with these babies you can hack away without worry - I mean what will you lose if you blow one up?:)
But more than likely they are useless. Gee - maybe if some providers start offering cheaper DSL with used modems they won't go under as fast LOL
I think RDF was a good setup for a while, but Mozilla's sidebar stuff seems better off. You can use good ol HTML, make the list look better than a Unnumbered List and even add a little color. DOne right, sidebar channels work very well and could easily be included where RDF files were before. The only problem is a lack of standards so YMMV depending on teh site whose content highlights you are trying to get.
I mean an RDF file was nothing more than a <UL> list that used a bizarre, tedious format. Yes, it WAS standardized so a valid RDF channel would generally be usable. But what if it's not? Its the source sites lose - you'll just remove it.
Napster is old news. Next is Gnutella, then when teh RIAA shuts them down, whats next? Espra? Well there needs to be some SERIOUS development first. But Freenet has lots of possibilities.. Beyond that - MojoNation?
I can't wait till my ISP contacts me saying "The RIAA wants us to shut you down because you run a Freenet server" my response will be "Um - ok, whats their beef? Oh copyrighted music? Prove that data lives on my server! What? Its encrypted? Wow. Do I have the keys? Maybe - maybe not. I have no idea. Oh yeah - thats right - you aren't liable for criminal traffic going through your network either if you can't identify it? Well neither can I." Click.
However, even as an avid Micro$oft hater, I have to give them credit for one thing done well (at first) and that is TechNet. The TechNet Cds were great, easy to navigate, and packed with useful info. Only problem is they ruined it when they moved it to the web.
And as soon as we get really good with the genetic engineering, I want my own half height clone to mow my lawn.
I've already got these - they're called kids. Sure they bitch alot about doing it - but imagine a mini you being told to do chores - which would be worse? Kids or Clones?
You "Clone, mow the yard" Clone "Hell no! You never did it when you were a kid - I KNOW it!"
Plus kids are more fun to make!
Besides - I don't think I could stand to deal with a clone of me on a daily basis - that and my wife would probably lose it since I drive her nuts already LOL
AMD is posied to take over a much larger chunk of the microprocessor market.
Probably, but AMD really needs to come up with a marketing campaign that drives home the point that raw MHz does NOT mean raw performance. We geeks know AMD blows the PIII away and puts the P4 in a column with an asterisk (* "until apps are optimized")
That said - just got our new 1GHz 266FSB Athlon server going with IBM Ultrastar SCSI disks. Oh my lord! What a sweet setup. I cannot believe a top line mobo (A7V133) with a 1GHz Athlon (266FBS) cost me about $300. I've never seen Perl and apache compile so fast - and I've got a 700MHz Athlon (non TBird) SCSI based desktop.
Can you provide more info or links to related info? Are the drives getting corrupted because of problems with the Promise chip? Are the interfaces dying due to out of spec signalling? What? I just put a new system togther with dual 75GXPs connected to my A7V133 Promise controller in a RAID-1 config. Any more info you might have would be very much appreciated!
This is a great concept - heck our network closets got a lot roomier when we went from old 10BaseT hubs that were huge compared to the new switched 100BaseT ATM edge switches. Leaving plenty of room for these suckers, though I expect a rack full of 1U PCs would put out a ton of heat that the network closets couldn't handle!
Having hte PC under your desk just made a good footstool - Trust me - I was an IT manager for Desktops & Servers at an R&D lab - the PCs got so dirty and banged up but hardly anyone touched them (except with their feet:( ) The only ones who actually used them (for Cds and stuff) were the IT guys.
However I do have to say the lack of a CD-ROM could be a problem (hmm maybe we go back to the shared tape drive days and have a shared CD-ROM tower near each closet LOL)
But imagine the savings on net wiring, maintenance, etc. I hope this idea gets some traction!
This makes me sick. First the families of the shooters settle with the victims families for millions (as if they aren't destroyed enough - now they'll forever be reminded of their son's evil by being bankrupt for life.) now this. Columbine has become synonymous with school shootings - "Being Columbined" should also refer to suing everything in sight. The parents, the school, the police, teh software industry, teh gun makers, the makers of black trench coats.
I am so sick and tired of everybody whining about being a victim. The only people responsible for Columbine were the two shooters who are now dead. Grieve and get the hell over it! But no, we have ot drag it out ruin as many lives as possible, and provide lawers with millions in fees. Sure - some idiot KNOWs the brakes on a dump truck are defective but sends it out on the road cause he's lazy - that's liable. BUt suing someone because they SHOULD have known something was going to happen is a joke. I'm a parent - you think you know all that your kids do, but you don't and never will!
Columbine was terrible - but it is swinging the lawsuit pendalum even further.
Utility companies are regulated, and since now your comparing apples with oranges anyway so I'll skip the whole rambling.
It IS a valid analogy? Why? Utility companies were regulated because they are... monopolies. Not 100% monopolies, but enough to require regulation.
Now AOL has a VERY sizable chunk of the IM market between AOL, ICQ, etc. They are trying to force people to use their stuff and only their stuff (remember when you had to rent a phone from Ma Bell?) So many people use IM, that AOls insistence in locking down their network is a) a disservice to their users and b) excludes other users who frely choose to use other services.
Normally you'd say - that's business and hte most popular devices wins (think VHS) But in this case you have a company who is flexing its muscle to rule the Internet.
Remember how CNN, TIme Managzine and others always had live chats via their websites with various folks? Notice how those chats are now exclusively on AOL? I'm not saying they shouldn't be able to do this, but it really does exclude many people. I've read TIME maagzine for decades - but I'll never get an AOL account just to use their exclusive online services! Scary part is I'm sure many other people will.
As someone who hosts a Freenet node (that tends to stay pretty busy which is a good sign) I haveto laugh at how quickly folks change their tune.
People are constantly raging against The Man - RIAA, MPAA, Feds, loser ISPs, Carnavore, etc.
Now along comes Freenet - a technology designed to allow users anonymous access to a network where they can search for a post information. Seems like the perfect way to stick it to the man, keep some privacy, and do what you please over the internet (in theory) Yet you get people going on about how only criminals and kiddie pr0n scum would use it. Oh please! I'm tired of new technologies being shoved under the rug because they MIGHT be usable by criminals (can we say PGP??)
Freenet is great because it allows users to share information in an anonymous way. It protects the folks running the servers by encrypting the stored data and providing a decent separation between keys and content - the admin is clueless - an important legal point.
I'm happy to run a Freenet node. Sure I wonder at times what is on it and fully expect there might be an illegal file or two. But I feel no more guilty for providing the service than any backbone provider who provides the pathways for the mafia to plan hits, and serious pr0n scumbags, at the saem time providing us the ability to browse a worldwide network.
The world is NEVER gonna be a perfect place and we are in serious risk of ignoring important technologies because of theri possible criminal applications.
Of course when did you last use Freenet? Lets all remember that this is still a project in development - heavy development. Yes, sometimes getting data off freenet can take some time. But as more people start nodes, it gets faster. I've noticed a speed improvement.
Besides - even with Napster in teh good ole days I'd queue a bunch of downloads and let it go - I could care less how long it took. Hopefully espra or some other client will allow the same thing. Queue some downloads and let it go.
While I agree with you - it'll never happen in a form that is useful. Its hard enough to track spammers as it is. And we all know that by the time legislation actually gets out, it has so many loopholes it is useless.
THe other problem? No legislature in the world is gonna pass a bill with stiff enough penalties - non violent crimes like this always get slap on wrist punishments. So a spammer figures heck - IF I manage to actualyl get caught, I'll pay the fine and keep spamming.
Even if Congress passes a USEFUL law (imagine that), the spamming will all move overseas where we can't do squat.
Actually no - we could provide them easily. It was just designers not wanting to bother and out of 254 possible IPs, if they chose the right one - bang, the server died (or another PC on the subnet). Even better - one designer took out his managers PCs doing this. The manager was in a rage cause his PC couldn't talk on the network. When we finally traced it down and showed up in the cube next to his, well the designer wasn't happy and neither was the manager - but we started getting many more IP requests ahead of time after that!!!
Finding systems out on a large network can be tricky at best!
In my last job I managed the R&D Data Center for a large telecom company. We had a mix of PCs and HP-UX machines. The PC's were concentrated on 3 subnets. Our main File & Print server cluster was connected directly to each subnet.
Up until this time we were a telecom company working on telephony switch software. However as the Internet changed the world, we quickly became a Networking company and our R&D lab made a "right angle turn" workign on VoIP. SO here you have all these switch designers working in IP for probably the first time in their lives.
Every once in a while (and it soon became more than once in a while) the file server would completely crap out. As much as I wanted to blame Bill Gates, I couldn't. We'd shut the system down and surprise! It's IP address would still respond to pings!
So we hook up with the network guys (who had just deployed a fancy new switched ATM network with switched ethernet to the desktops) Using packet sniffers and some nifty utils from the backbone and edge switch vendor, we'd work to trace down the culprit.
Turns out the VoIP designers were getting these nifty Ethernet based phones. They'd get one, buy a $40 4 port hub, and choose an IP on their subnet at random and just use it. This was NOT an isolated incident. I think this happened to use at least 10 or 15 times before we finally got all the designers (there were 1,200 people in our facility) to listen to us and actually ASK for extra IPs.
At first they ignored us - then we started switching off their network ports. When mgmt came down in a fury - we told them that unless this port was taken down, the main server would go down impacting everyone instead of this lowly designer. Needless to say a few visits from upper management got their attention.
Funny - that's like one of the few times I can even recall when upper mgmt actually backed IT.
Pretty damn hot (IAANC I Am A North Carolinian) - Here its only April and we've been in the high 80's for a few days - even hit 90. Our Central Air broke down last year in teh summer and my computers were sizzling when it was almost 100 degrees outside! Yikes!
Personally, if there is one thing that drives me nuts is being blamed for something I didn't do.
The same applies here. Assuming our gov't is telling the truth and the plane was in international airspace, since we've been um 'wrong' about that before:)
But seriously, some hot dog pilot brings down our plane and the Chinese decide to strip it? That's a $36 million piece of hardware. The Chinese caused this mess, they can pay for it. And they aren't gonna get a freaking apology - their pilot caused the crash (I mean how does a slow prop plane crash INTO a speedy fighter and lose its nose cone unless the fighter pilot pulled into the plane's path.)
I'm also tired of the US playing wimp. Screw the CHinese. Shut down our market to them. Period. Ban all imports from China and see how they like that. I don't care if I have to pay more for my kids toys. I'm tired of dealing with nations who sell goods to use hand over fist but block our products at everyturn.
The arrogance of the Chinese and blatant propaganda is a joke. To hell with them!
And I have a major beef with Jon's editorial. I'm tired of people always saying that the US is always pushing their vlaues on other countries. Why is it during times of crisis, we're expected to be the world's policeman, but during relative calm we're expected to butt out. Make up your mind. Either we worry only about ourselves and leave the rest of you to fight for yourselves or you get our help under certain conditions. DEAL WITH IT!
Please tell me you're joking - the/. effect is usually bandwidth related, not HW. My servers run off a 384kbps DSL line too for cost reasons and it works great - if I ever got/.'ed - well it would die. But its not worth paying 4 times a much for access in the remote chance one of my sites got/.'ed:)
A/. cache is something that really needs to be considered for the MAIN page of any site linked.
Yeah which sucks for him since he now has to buy new seed he normally shouldn't have. The hell with it - Monsanto should have been required to PAY him to remove the plants and replace them with natural canola. It wasn't the farmers fault - the pollen drifted to his farm on teh wind. If Monsanto wants it out - its their problem not his.
And then common sense goes to teh wind and the lawyers get involved and the regular guy gets screwed.
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Overall I found certifications were often overrated, or better put there were SOMETIMES better candidates without certs who had lived with teh stuff vs someone from another IT area who took cert course X to expand his horizons.
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But more than likely they are useless. Gee - maybe if some providers start offering cheaper DSL with used modems they won't go under as fast LOL
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I mean an RDF file was nothing more than a <UL> list that used a bizarre, tedious format. Yes, it WAS standardized so a valid RDF channel would generally be usable. But what if it's not? Its the source sites lose - you'll just remove it.
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Question is - did AMD drop their NDA silliness for sharing the bug workaround or did the kernel developers just hack it (by reading NDP twice)
I expect the latter but I'm psyched anyway!
As always - thank you kernel developers!
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I can't wait till my ISP contacts me saying "The RIAA wants us to shut you down because you run a Freenet server" my response will be "Um - ok, whats their beef? Oh copyrighted music? Prove that data lives on my server! What? Its encrypted? Wow. Do I have the keys? Maybe - maybe not. I have no idea. Oh yeah - thats right - you aren't liable for criminal traffic going through your network either if you can't identify it? Well neither can I." Click.
Bring it on!
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However, even as an avid Micro$oft hater, I have to give them credit for one thing done well (at first) and that is TechNet. The TechNet Cds were great, easy to navigate, and packed with useful info. Only problem is they ruined it when they moved it to the web.
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Anandtech.com is using it.
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I've already got these - they're called kids. Sure they bitch alot about doing it - but imagine a mini you being told to do chores - which would be worse? Kids or Clones?
You "Clone, mow the yard"
Clone "Hell no! You never did it when you were a kid - I KNOW it!"
Plus kids are more fun to make!
Besides - I don't think I could stand to deal with a clone of me on a daily basis - that and my wife would probably lose it since I drive her nuts already LOL
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Probably, but AMD really needs to come up with a marketing campaign that drives home the point that raw MHz does NOT mean raw performance. We geeks know AMD blows the PIII away and puts the P4 in a column with an asterisk (* "until apps are optimized")
That said - just got our new 1GHz 266FSB Athlon server going with IBM Ultrastar SCSI disks. Oh my lord! What a sweet setup. I cannot believe a top line mobo (A7V133) with a 1GHz Athlon (266FBS) cost me about $300. I've never seen Perl and apache compile so fast - and I've got a 700MHz Athlon (non TBird) SCSI based desktop.
Go AMD Go!
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ln -fs secsh ssh
Easy enough! :)
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Having hte PC under your desk just made a good footstool - Trust me - I was an IT manager for Desktops & Servers at an R&D lab - the PCs got so dirty and banged up but hardly anyone touched them (except with their feet :( ) The only ones who actually used them (for Cds and stuff) were the IT guys.
However I do have to say the lack of a CD-ROM could be a problem (hmm maybe we go back to the shared tape drive days and have a shared CD-ROM tower near each closet LOL)
But imagine the savings on net wiring, maintenance, etc. I hope this idea gets some traction!
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I am so sick and tired of everybody whining about being a victim. The only people responsible for Columbine were the two shooters who are now dead. Grieve and get the hell over it! But no, we have ot drag it out ruin as many lives as possible, and provide lawers with millions in fees. Sure - some idiot KNOWs the brakes on a dump truck are defective but sends it out on the road cause he's lazy - that's liable. BUt suing someone because they SHOULD have known something was going to happen is a joke. I'm a parent - you think you know all that your kids do, but you don't and never will!
Columbine was terrible - but it is swinging the lawsuit pendalum even further.
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It IS a valid analogy? Why? Utility companies were regulated because they are... monopolies. Not 100% monopolies, but enough to require regulation.
Now AOL has a VERY sizable chunk of the IM market between AOL, ICQ, etc. They are trying to force people to use their stuff and only their stuff (remember when you had to rent a phone from Ma Bell?) So many people use IM, that AOls insistence in locking down their network is a) a disservice to their users and b) excludes other users who frely choose to use other services.
Normally you'd say - that's business and hte most popular devices wins (think VHS) But in this case you have a company who is flexing its muscle to rule the Internet.
Remember how CNN, TIme Managzine and others always had live chats via their websites with various folks? Notice how those chats are now exclusively on AOL? I'm not saying they shouldn't be able to do this, but it really does exclude many people. I've read TIME maagzine for decades - but I'll never get an AOL account just to use their exclusive online services! Scary part is I'm sure many other people will.
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People are constantly raging against The Man - RIAA, MPAA, Feds, loser ISPs, Carnavore, etc.
Now along comes Freenet - a technology designed to allow users anonymous access to a network where they can search for a post information. Seems like the perfect way to stick it to the man, keep some privacy, and do what you please over the internet (in theory) Yet you get people going on about how only criminals and kiddie pr0n scum would use it. Oh please! I'm tired of new technologies being shoved under the rug because they MIGHT be usable by criminals (can we say PGP??)
Freenet is great because it allows users to share information in an anonymous way. It protects the folks running the servers by encrypting the stored data and providing a decent separation between keys and content - the admin is clueless - an important legal point.
I'm happy to run a Freenet node. Sure I wonder at times what is on it and fully expect there might be an illegal file or two. But I feel no more guilty for providing the service than any backbone provider who provides the pathways for the mafia to plan hits, and serious pr0n scumbags, at the saem time providing us the ability to browse a worldwide network.
The world is NEVER gonna be a perfect place and we are in serious risk of ignoring important technologies because of theri possible criminal applications.
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Besides - even with Napster in teh good ole days I'd queue a bunch of downloads and let it go - I could care less how long it took. Hopefully espra or some other client will allow the same thing. Queue some downloads and let it go.
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THe other problem? No legislature in the world is gonna pass a bill with stiff enough penalties - non violent crimes like this always get slap on wrist punishments. So a spammer figures heck - IF I manage to actualyl get caught, I'll pay the fine and keep spamming.
Even if Congress passes a USEFUL law (imagine that), the spamming will all move overseas where we can't do squat.
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In my last job I managed the R&D Data Center for a large telecom company. We had a mix of PCs and HP-UX machines. The PC's were concentrated on 3 subnets. Our main File & Print server cluster was connected directly to each subnet.
Up until this time we were a telecom company working on telephony switch software. However as the Internet changed the world, we quickly became a Networking company and our R&D lab made a "right angle turn" workign on VoIP. SO here you have all these switch designers working in IP for probably the first time in their lives.
Every once in a while (and it soon became more than once in a while) the file server would completely crap out. As much as I wanted to blame Bill Gates, I couldn't. We'd shut the system down and surprise! It's IP address would still respond to pings!
So we hook up with the network guys (who had just deployed a fancy new switched ATM network with switched ethernet to the desktops) Using packet sniffers and some nifty utils from the backbone and edge switch vendor, we'd work to trace down the culprit.
Turns out the VoIP designers were getting these nifty Ethernet based phones. They'd get one, buy a $40 4 port hub, and choose an IP on their subnet at random and just use it. This was NOT an isolated incident. I think this happened to use at least 10 or 15 times before we finally got all the designers (there were 1,200 people in our facility) to listen to us and actually ASK for extra IPs.
At first they ignored us - then we started switching off their network ports. When mgmt came down in a fury - we told them that unless this port was taken down, the main server would go down impacting everyone instead of this lowly designer. Needless to say a few visits from upper management got their attention.
Funny - that's like one of the few times I can even recall when upper mgmt actually backed IT.
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The same applies here. Assuming our gov't is telling the truth and the plane was in international airspace, since we've been um 'wrong' about that before :)
But seriously, some hot dog pilot brings down our plane and the Chinese decide to strip it? That's a $36 million piece of hardware. The Chinese caused this mess, they can pay for it. And they aren't gonna get a freaking apology - their pilot caused the crash (I mean how does a slow prop plane crash INTO a speedy fighter and lose its nose cone unless the fighter pilot pulled into the plane's path.)
I'm also tired of the US playing wimp. Screw the CHinese. Shut down our market to them. Period. Ban all imports from China and see how they like that. I don't care if I have to pay more for my kids toys. I'm tired of dealing with nations who sell goods to use hand over fist but block our products at everyturn.
The arrogance of the Chinese and blatant propaganda is a joke. To hell with them!
And I have a major beef with Jon's editorial. I'm tired of people always saying that the US is always pushing their vlaues on other countries. Why is it during times of crisis, we're expected to be the world's policeman, but during relative calm we're expected to butt out. Make up your mind. Either we worry only about ourselves and leave the rest of you to fight for yourselves or you get our help under certain conditions. DEAL WITH IT!
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A /. cache is something that really needs to be considered for the MAIN page of any site linked.
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And then common sense goes to teh wind and the lawyers get involved and the regular guy gets screwed.
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