I just set up SPF on rougly 10 low volume domains that I and a few friends run on a server hosted where I work. Nice to hear something like this since it helps validate our moving to it!
Actually I have two - my mp3 player and my walkman. Every time I'm listening to one and my cell phone is about to ring (or another one nearby is) I hear a very distinct pattern of interference in my headphones.
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Perhaps we will get to the point where static IP addresses are required.
I doubt that'll ever happen. Who would manage it and who would police it? There are also too many useful situations for using dynamic IP's. True, it's easy to abuse if it's not implemented properly but that doesn't mean it should be gotten rid of. How many companies use DHCP to manage their networks? It's also used in server farms like search engines where there are hundreds or thousands of similar servers in distributed systems. Forcing people to go to static-only configurations would be a major pain in the ass for them.
Sweet! Thanks for the pointer to this. I've been searching for a client for a long time but never thought to search for a java based one... I'll try this out at work tomorrow and see how it does.
...they supported IM through SIP then I might make use of this product. I have no desire to place phone calls through my computer, especially if I have a limited number of minutes or have to buy extra hardware or the cost is going to be more than using the old-fashioned phone sitting on my desk right next to my computer. What I REALLY could use is a linux IM client that supports SIP. My company uses MS products for all it's IT, but everybody in my group runs linux desktops. Now that they've rolled out a corporate IM solution based on MS products we're effectively SOL unless/until somebody develops a SIP IM client for linux... I'd find a linux SIP IM client infinitely more useful than a linux SIP phone.
I've never seen anybody in the workplace using IM for anything other than goofing off with friends in another company or elsewhere in the same company.
Many companies are starting to standardize on corporate IM solutions. Where I work we have offices in 5 different states and we standardized on Microsofts corporate IM a while ago. Those of us in the oprations group standardized on Yahoo's IM long before that (for one thing MS doesn't have a linux client). We wouldn't be half as productive without an IM client of some sort since we're constantly trying to communicate with multiple people at different locations, and cell phones don't work well in some of our datacenters.
We have phones.
See above. Cell phones do have their uses but IM works much better when trying to communicate with multiple people, or in noisy environments like datacenters. Cell phone coverage also sucks in many datacenters because of all the interference with all the equipment.
If gaim supported all this. My company standardized on Microsofts corporate IM system but all our operations people use linux exclusively. We use gaim to IM with each other but can't access the corporate IM system since there's currently no linux client that supports it...
... all the antivirus companies like Symantec, Sophos, etc. just start classifying IE as a virus. Get rid of IE and most of these viruses/worms will have nowhere to go.
We had a cluster of VAXes where I went to college (all named after cartoon characters). Unlike other people's comments we did have to reboot at least one of them a number of times. That was thanks to a LISP interpreter we were running on one for an AI class that I took. On numerous occasions we managed to write AI apps in LISP that resulted in so much page swapping that VMS simply couldn't find any more virtual memory to swap so it just stopped. Sort of a computers version of painting oneself into a corner....
Most customers want a backup media that will still be viable in at least seven years because of legal requirements. That can mean needing to be able to buy a drive that can read their tapes 5-12 years from now. How many of these new tape technologies will have that kind of staying power?
When we evaluated ADIC & StorageTek we learned quite a bit about the different tape formats. DLT and LTO, for example, are two formats where new drives that increase capacity come out every couple of years. But one key component is backward compatibility for reading tapes. So an LTO-2 drive can read tapes written by an LTO-1 drive. This means that we can simply double our tape capacity in a few years by buying new drives for our tape library. We don't have to replace our entire robot or install new software or anything. And it's all backward compatibile, so it can still read our older tapes.
The most impressive thing about the Scalar 1000 isn't the storage space, it's the wasted space in that big honkin' refrigerator cabinet.
I agree. However at the time we bought the unit the only other thing that had similar capacity, expandability, etc. was a StorageTek unit, and theirs was significantly more expensive. Since then ADIC has improved - I forget if it's their Scalar i2000 or Scalar 10K that's essentially a Scalar 1000 that makes use of both the front & rear of the cabinet to double the number of available tapes.
They see a hot product. They take it and build a more expensive version of it with their own proprietary software in order to hook you & reel you in. They've never been innovaters. When will they come out with something new & unique? Windows is based on X, MSN is based on AOL, Active Directory is based on Netware, now this is is based on iPod.
I'd suggest starting a pool for when M$ comes out with a truely innovative product and not just a copycat of an existing product, but I want to be alive to see somebody win the pool!
As a professional systems administrator I would refuse to make use of this product and I would NEVER recommend it to anybody. Not only could using it violate various computer laws in the US and elsewhere but it could actually provoke attacks by hackers if they knew you were using it. I can envision hackers with a grudge against a particular ISP (cable provider, DSL provider, whatever) creating a host of zombie servers on that ISP that suddenly start attacking a number of sites making use of Symbiots tools. The result would be DDoS attacks not only against those Symbiot users but in response there would be DDoS attacks launched BY the Symbiot users against the ISP. Next thing you know the ISP simply blocks all the Symbiot users at the router level in response to the attack by the Symbiot boxes. After that happens what recourse is left?
...create a database of all my own personal information - name, age, phone number, address, credit card numbers, etc. - does that mean I can sue ANYBODY who calls me or otherwise makes use of my personal information without my knowledge or consent? Hmmm... Perhaps I should start a company where I build databases for each person who signs up so that they can claim copyright of themselves and tell telemarketers, etc. to go fsck off!
Considering EV probably didn't even PAY for the license (or if they did it was probably something like $1) there's nothing really for them to get back. My guess is that SCO threatened to sue them then offered an olive branch in the form of a site license with the stipulation that SCO could publicize the fact that they're now a licensed SCO sucker.
Nowhere in the press release does it say that EV actually paid for the license. SCO's PR people do a good job of carefully wording things so you have to be careful when you read them. Even if they DID pay they wouldn't have paid the full price for a site license. Site licenses can easily end up being a small fraction of the total cost as you calculated it. It wouldn't surprise me at all if SCO talked EV into accepting a license for free as long as SCO could publicize the fact that they now have a site license.
SCO has become masters of twisting words in their press releases. Take a close look at what the press release says and pay particular attention to what's missing.
Note in all the articles & releases that 1: there is no mention if these licenses were purchased for any amount of money 2: it only covers "SCO Intellectual Property" and 3: it makes it seem like this is a Fortune 1000 company that's involved. The release states "EV1Servers.Net joins other Fortune 1000 companies that have signed up for a SCO IP license". Go take a look at any list of Fortune 1000 companies and check for yourself if EV1Servers.Net is listed. It's not even close.
In reading this press release it looks to me like the SCO FUD Machine is working at high speed.
My question is: When they locate a fix for Spirit, will they apply it to Opportunity as well?
According to the Reuters article one of the theories that NASA is investigating is the possibility that a solar flare could have damaged Spirit during "a vulnerable point during its communications with Earth." If that's the case then there's probably not much they can do to prevent it from happening again. If, however, another theory like the machine overloading itself with datafiles, turns out to be the true culprit then they probably could patch both rovers.
I'll take odds that Nevada outlaws these sorts of gadgets as soon as they become available to the general public, as does any other state where gambling is legal. Not that it'd help with games like blackjack, roulette, craps, etc. but it sure would help with various forms of poker - stud, hold'em, etc.
Not Vegas... They already host Comdex every year. I like the idea of more tech shows coming to Boston. I can't wait until the new convention center opens up in Boston. That'll attract a lot of shows that haven't been in this neck of the woods in the past.
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I just set up SPF on rougly 10 low volume domains that I and a few friends run on a server hosted where I work. Nice to hear something like this since it helps validate our moving to it!
Actually I have two - my mp3 player and my walkman. Every time I'm listening to one and my cell phone is about to ring (or another one nearby is) I hear a very distinct pattern of interference in my headphones.
Perhaps we will get to the point where static IP addresses are required.
I doubt that'll ever happen. Who would manage it and who would police it? There are also too many useful situations for using dynamic IP's. True, it's easy to abuse if it's not implemented properly but that doesn't mean it should be gotten rid of. How many companies use DHCP to manage their networks? It's also used in server farms like search engines where there are hundreds or thousands of similar servers in distributed systems. Forcing people to go to static-only configurations would be a major pain in the ass for them.
Does a java client cut it?
Sweet! Thanks for the pointer to this. I've been searching for a client for a long time but never thought to search for a java based one... I'll try this out at work tomorrow and see how it does.
...they supported IM through SIP then I might make use of this product. I have no desire to place phone calls through my computer, especially if I have a limited number of minutes or have to buy extra hardware or the cost is going to be more than using the old-fashioned phone sitting on my desk right next to my computer. What I REALLY could use is a linux IM client that supports SIP. My company uses MS products for all it's IT, but everybody in my group runs linux desktops. Now that they've rolled out a corporate IM solution based on MS products we're effectively SOL unless/until somebody develops a SIP IM client for linux... I'd find a linux SIP IM client infinitely more useful than a linux SIP phone.
Many companies are starting to standardize on corporate IM solutions. Where I work we have offices in 5 different states and we standardized on Microsofts corporate IM a while ago. Those of us in the oprations group standardized on Yahoo's IM long before that (for one thing MS doesn't have a linux client). We wouldn't be half as productive without an IM client of some sort since we're constantly trying to communicate with multiple people at different locations, and cell phones don't work well in some of our datacenters.
We have phones.
See above. Cell phones do have their uses but IM works much better when trying to communicate with multiple people, or in noisy environments like datacenters. Cell phone coverage also sucks in many datacenters because of all the interference with all the equipment.
If gaim supported all this. My company standardized on Microsofts corporate IM system but all our operations people use linux exclusively. We use gaim to IM with each other but can't access the corporate IM system since there's currently no linux client that supports it...
So everybody should just run out and upgrade to Win XP? (And install SP2 even though it hasn't been released yet?)
News Alert: Microsoft forces users to upgrade to Windows XP by releasing viruses/worms that only target earlier versions of Windows and IE.
... all the antivirus companies like Symantec, Sophos, etc. just start classifying IE as a virus. Get rid of IE and most of these viruses/worms will have nowhere to go.
We had a cluster of VAXes where I went to college (all named after cartoon characters). Unlike other people's comments we did have to reboot at least one of them a number of times. That was thanks to a LISP interpreter we were running on one for an AI class that I took. On numerous occasions we managed to write AI apps in LISP that resulted in so much page swapping that VMS simply couldn't find any more virtual memory to swap so it just stopped. Sort of a computers version of painting oneself into a corner....
When we evaluated ADIC & StorageTek we learned quite a bit about the different tape formats. DLT and LTO, for example, are two formats where new drives that increase capacity come out every couple of years. But one key component is backward compatibility for reading tapes. So an LTO-2 drive can read tapes written by an LTO-1 drive. This means that we can simply double our tape capacity in a few years by buying new drives for our tape library. We don't have to replace our entire robot or install new software or anything. And it's all backward compatibile, so it can still read our older tapes.
I agree. However at the time we bought the unit the only other thing that had similar capacity, expandability, etc. was a StorageTek unit, and theirs was significantly more expensive. Since then ADIC has improved - I forget if it's their Scalar i2000 or Scalar 10K that's essentially a Scalar 1000 that makes use of both the front & rear of the cabinet to double the number of available tapes.
We have an ADIC Scalar 1000 with 12 tape drives and something like 200 terabytes of storage space. I doubt tapes are going to die any time soon.
they're "special" earthquakes
Isn't that still politically incorrect? Shouldn't the PC version be something like "mobility challenged earthquakes"?
They see a hot product. They take it and build a more expensive version of it with their own proprietary software in order to hook you & reel you in. They've never been innovaters. When will they come out with something new & unique? Windows is based on X, MSN is based on AOL, Active Directory is based on Netware, now this is is based on iPod.
I'd suggest starting a pool for when M$ comes out with a truely innovative product and not just a copycat of an existing product, but I want to be alive to see somebody win the pool!
As a professional systems administrator I would refuse to make use of this product and I would NEVER recommend it to anybody. Not only could using it violate various computer laws in the US and elsewhere but it could actually provoke attacks by hackers if they knew you were using it. I can envision hackers with a grudge against a particular ISP (cable provider, DSL provider, whatever) creating a host of zombie servers on that ISP that suddenly start attacking a number of sites making use of Symbiots tools. The result would be DDoS attacks not only against those Symbiot users but in response there would be DDoS attacks launched BY the Symbiot users against the ISP. Next thing you know the ISP simply blocks all the Symbiot users at the router level in response to the attack by the Symbiot boxes. After that happens what recourse is left?
...create a database of all my own personal information - name, age, phone number, address, credit card numbers, etc. - does that mean I can sue ANYBODY who calls me or otherwise makes use of my personal information without my knowledge or consent? Hmmm... Perhaps I should start a company where I build databases for each person who signs up so that they can claim copyright of themselves and tell telemarketers, etc. to go fsck off!
Considering EV probably didn't even PAY for the license (or if they did it was probably something like $1) there's nothing really for them to get back. My guess is that SCO threatened to sue them then offered an olive branch in the form of a site license with the stipulation that SCO could publicize the fact that they're now a licensed SCO sucker.
Nowhere in the press release does it say that EV actually paid for the license. SCO's PR people do a good job of carefully wording things so you have to be careful when you read them. Even if they DID pay they wouldn't have paid the full price for a site license. Site licenses can easily end up being a small fraction of the total cost as you calculated it. It wouldn't surprise me at all if SCO talked EV into accepting a license for free as long as SCO could publicize the fact that they now have a site license.
Note in all the articles & releases that 1: there is no mention if these licenses were purchased for any amount of money 2: it only covers "SCO Intellectual Property" and 3: it makes it seem like this is a Fortune 1000 company that's involved. The release states "EV1Servers.Net joins other Fortune 1000 companies that have signed up for a SCO IP license". Go take a look at any list of Fortune 1000 companies and check for yourself if EV1Servers.Net is listed. It's not even close.
In reading this press release it looks to me like the SCO FUD Machine is working at high speed.
...wrapping all my credit cards in aluminum foil.
According to the Reuters article one of the theories that NASA is investigating is the possibility that a solar flare could have damaged Spirit during "a vulnerable point during its communications with Earth." If that's the case then there's probably not much they can do to prevent it from happening again. If, however, another theory like the machine overloading itself with datafiles, turns out to be the true culprit then they probably could patch both rovers.
Now where did I leave my glasses...
I'll take odds that Nevada outlaws these sorts of gadgets as soon as they become available to the general public, as does any other state where gambling is legal. Not that it'd help with games like blackjack, roulette, craps, etc. but it sure would help with various forms of poker - stud, hold'em, etc.
Not Vegas... They already host Comdex every year. I like the idea of more tech shows coming to Boston. I can't wait until the new convention center opens up in Boston. That'll attract a lot of shows that haven't been in this neck of the woods in the past.