The industry standard for uptime is an availability of 5 9's or 99.999% availability.
Microsoft put lots of info on stability of windows 2000, including some documents showing that it can reach this figure (sorry, but I can't give the URLS;).
Apparently, they are unable to reproduce this for their own servers as, of now, their downtime for these exceed 0.0017 % (calculated over 1 year).
Hey, this is pure microsoft bashing, so what ? Isn't this post all about ?
I know of a network engineer who got his CCIE a few months ago. He's blind since many years...
There are many ways to use computers if you have some kind of physical problems. And as stated before, there are other interesting tasks which do not require typing all day long...
I'm not very aware of history of electrical companies in CA.
I've rode the other comments and see that the problem in this precise case is not about deregulation / reregulation.
Anyway the problem of networks is still the same.
And on your
>You can't depend on the Gov't to ever do things right.
I strongly disagree with that.
In fact, in Europe, in countries where electricity is directed by public governement (such as France, Belgium,...) have pretty good network and power build, we don't had any problems and plannig goes up to 2020 with big investment plans in the networks, in cogeneration utilities, in windmill,...
A side effect of the deregulation is that private companies cut down costs on various things. Of course they build less power plants but there is also a major problem with the network itself.
Of course, maintenance and building of new lines is one big consequence but another is interconnection.
It is a known fact that the US of A electrical network is much less interconnected than other (developped) countries. As said in a seminar earlier this (academic) year, it now has the same characteristics that third world networks have. If I remember well, west coast and east coast are not even interconnected correctly.
FYI, interconnection of networks provides a reserve of regulation (frequency-power,...) and so more interconnection = more stability. This is why all european networks are interconnected, from Portugal to Finland.
Another example of deregulation who failed :
- British rail (people died because of cost-cuts)
- Network Solutions (domain name something)
Yep, this kind of car exist and is sold for some years in Europe. His name : Smart, made by DaimlerChrysler (formerly by Mercedes and Swatch (the swiss watch makers).
And, unlike the nokia 5100s, they have less success than other car from the same category (such ash Renault Twingo, VW Polo,...) because, for about the same price (in the 300.000 BEF), other car are bigger and more useful. Their only clients are companies and political party who sticks lots of stickers on it.
If price doesn't matter I will also go for a projector. I've seen a very nice installation with a project. The only drawback is when there's already some light. But you can always buy a more 'luminous' projector or have also a standard TV.
The Projector Central site has much much information about... projectors (!) and a quasi-exhaustive database, full of details.
My favorite 'NMS' program is definitely MRTG which produces many interesting graphics but may not fit your needs. But, if you have some time, you can program your own shell script that may ask your cisco switches some info...
Anyway, OpenNMS is also fine and maybe you can be interested in Extreme Happy Netflow Tool", more related to cisco and netflow.
For spanning tree info, I don't see anyhting but I don't see everything too so...
Slightly off-topic : if you want see MRTG graphics, just have a look at our Student network or the Linux box who is currently on his knees because of users (P133 - 32 Mo RAM with apache, squid, mysql,...
Maybe rename this category from 'Ask Slashdot' to 'Ask Google' would be a good idea;)
The answer to lots of post may be found using google and 'I fell lucky'.
For example, a search on 'open source pbx' give the following answer : Asterisk PBX
Isn't that what you're looking for ? Other interesting site: http://www.linuxtelephony.org/
Slashdot Mirror
The industry standard for uptime is an availability of 5 9's or 99.999% availability.
Microsoft put lots of info on stability of windows 2000, including some documents showing that it can reach this figure (sorry, but I can't give the URLS;).
Apparently, they are unable to reproduce this for their own servers as, of now, their downtime for these exceed 0.0017 % (calculated over 1 year).
Hey, this is pure microsoft bashing, so what ? Isn't this post all about ?
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Can't do anything if blind ?
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I know of a network engineer who got his CCIE a few months ago. He's blind since many years
There are many ways to use computers if you have some kind of physical problems. And as stated before, there are other interesting tasks which do not require typing all day long
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Other references :
google -> feel lucky -> Device profile: Nokia Media Terminal dated 'Oct. 19, 2000'
Maybe the san jose mercury news is not a good news source for tech info / news but well for taking the 'temerature' (ambiance ?) of standard peoples.
Ok.
...) have pretty good network and power build, we don't had any problems and plannig goes up to 2020 with big investment plans in the networks, in cogeneration utilities, in windmill, ...
I'm not very aware of history of electrical companies in CA.
I've rode the other comments and see that the problem in this precise case is not about deregulation / reregulation.
Anyway the problem of networks is still the same.
And on your
>You can't depend on the Gov't to ever do things right.
I strongly disagree with that.
In fact, in Europe, in countries where electricity is directed by public governement (such as France, Belgium,
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A side effect of the deregulation is that private companies cut down costs on various things. Of course they build less power plants but there is also a major problem with the network itself.
...) and so more interconnection = more stability. This is why all european networks are interconnected, from Portugal to Finland.
Of course, maintenance and building of new lines is one big consequence but another is interconnection.
It is a known fact that the US of A electrical network is much less interconnected than other (developped) countries. As said in a seminar earlier this (academic) year, it now has the same characteristics that third world networks have. If I remember well, west coast and east coast are not even interconnected correctly.
FYI, interconnection of networks provides a reserve of regulation (frequency-power,
Another example of deregulation who failed :
- British rail (people died because of cost-cuts)
- Network Solutions (domain name something)
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Eventullay a numeric keypad sticking on it to do like a house entrance / car alarm (very 'jacky').
Some of this mods are functionnal btw.
Yep, this kind of car exist and is sold for some years in Europe. His name : Smart, made by DaimlerChrysler (formerly by Mercedes and Swatch (the swiss watch makers).
And, unlike the nokia 5100s, they have less success than other car from the same category (such ash Renault Twingo, VW Polo, ...) because, for about the same price (in the 300.000 BEF), other car are bigger and more useful. Their only clients are companies and political party who sticks lots of stickers on it.
If price doesn't matter I will also go for a projector. I've seen a very nice installation with a project. The only drawback is when there's already some light. But you can always buy a more 'luminous' projector or have also a standard TV.
The Projector Central site has much much information about ... projectors (!) and a quasi-exhaustive database, full of details.
Hey, we did it !!
/root]#
;)
Real cut'n paste from an ssh :
Last login: Thu Jan 11 20:22:24 2001 from foo
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
NE PAS REBOOTER
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
cool, 80 Mo de ram
You have new mail.
[root@pacman
Seriously, this is just an internal linux box
My favorite 'NMS' program is definitely MRTG which produces many interesting graphics but may not fit your needs. But, if you have some time, you can program your own shell script that may ask your cisco switches some info ...
Anyway, OpenNMS is also fine and maybe you can be interested in Extreme Happy Netflow Tool", more related to cisco and netflow.
For spanning tree info, I don't see anyhting but I don't see everything too so ...
Slightly off-topic : if you want see MRTG graphics, just have a look at our Student network or the Linux box who is currently on his knees because of users (P133 - 32 Mo RAM with apache, squid, mysql, ...
Human Rights Declaration... as it is not respected by the US
###BEEP - Flame : -1
Microsoft EULA :
this software is provided 'AS IS' and is not guaranteed to provide specific functionnality (or something like that)
###BUUP - Microsoft Bashing : +2
Manual of some VCR : just for the fun and the difficulty
###(smock) - Nothing : -1
###SUM - +0
Yes I'm laughing ... but I do that and I like it.
... wonderful !
I've used and still use some VT 320 to surf the web (lynx), trace graphics (with gnuplot on a DECwriter) and, of course, play tetris !
And i'm very happy because i've recently got a VT510 that I've been able to link to my Linux box
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If you read the article, you can see that MathML 2.0 designing goals include
"Facilitate conversion to and from other mathematical formats, both presentational and semantic.
Output formats should include:
And I'll be able to throw away my PIII-G400-17" computer to look at these maths on my favorite VT320 (amber on black or green on black) !!!
Why don't you check yourself on CCO ?
Or better, why don't you ask a question on the Cisco Open Forum ?
Maybe rename this category from 'Ask Slashdot' to 'Ask Google' would be a good idea ;)
The answer to lots of post may be found using google and 'I fell lucky'.
For example, a search on 'open source pbx' give the following answer :
Asterisk PBX
Isn't that what you're looking for ? Other interesting site :
http://www.linuxtelephony.org/