Interestingly however it does not use IOS. Which brings up several questions: is Cisco going to start replacing IOS with redesigned-from-scratch (watch out for second system effect!)? Or will they maintain two routing software bases, IOS and whatever the new one is called? Will this be an issue from either a marketing or technical/CCIE perspective?
HP stopped innovating in printers about 5 years ago (say 1998 or so) and since then has just been releasing variations that require new, propriatary toner cartridges every 18 months. Basically a razors/blades scam.
So, this contest doesn't mean what you think it means.
> Would it not be more likely that your ISP is > having problems? Or do you send all requests > directly to the root servers?
Our ISP is a pretty big one, and we use djbdns which I believe goes to the roots if the lookup is not cached.
Still, your questions are good ones and we have asked ourselves the same things. Usually when response seems slow in the office it is also slow on various cable and DSL services at employee's homes too though.
Maybe I am just getting old and cranky: "When I was young the 'net was FAST. And we didn't have any extra "Inter" letters on the front of it either!".
As a small company we have a limited view of the Internet, but it seems to us that there have been DNS and connectivity problems thoughout the Internet for the last 90 days or so. I was guessing that there was a DDoS attack against the root DNS servers that wasn't being reported. This would seem to be along the same lines.
There's a variety of economic and practical reasons why you would never do such a thing. Even assuming you could get a 2000W transmitter for free, you'd still spend nearly $400 a month on electricity to run the thing assuming 50% efficiency and $0.13/kwh electricity. With 2000w into a high gain antenna at wifi frequencies, you'd also have all sorts of issues with microwave heating and could very well cause yourself personal injury or death due to rf burns.
Hmmm - not to be rude, but you might want to go take a few psychology (or organizational behaviour) courses, or just read the newspaper carefully for a while. Even in my mid-sized city, at least one person a year (in nice, quiet middle-class neighborhoods) is shot to death as a result of a long-running dispute over lawn mowing or (typically) leaf blowing. And often both of them end up dying as when Guy A comes out of his house with a gun and fires, Guy B fires back with his dying breath, indicating he was already packing heat while running his leaf blower.
People will go to incredible extremes to get revenge on those they belive have wronged them.
See JYA at Cryptome for how to deal with this sort of thing.
Young doesn't post the details of his contracts with his architectural clients on his web site, and I would guess that those contracts prohibit him from so doing. So his Cryptome solution doesn't necessarily work when there are confidential agreements involved.
So lawyers are petitioning for confidential information from other lawyers, knowing it is confidential?
Why, preytell, have there been no petitions to have SCOs lawyers disbarred yet?
Oldest trick in the book is to stamp every document you create "confidential attorney-client work product" and claim all your documents are immune to subponea.
So, when subpoea'ing, you ask for every document the other guys has. Then your lawyer and his lawyer agree on what is confidential, or if they can't agree, the judge decides (I am told judges despise litigants who can't come to agreements on that sort of stuff).
Grand Juries aren't about doing whatever the Prosecutor wants. Usually, they're about doing whatever the citizens want - the Prosecutor can ask them to investigate something, but there is no requirement that they do so. The Prosecutor can present all sorts of evidence that a crime has occurred, and the Grand Jury can vote not to indict (we did, in one case), and the Prosecutor can tell the Grand Jury not to indict someone, and have them indicted anyway (we did that too).
I had a friend who while serving as a Grand Jury foreman actually said "no" to a District Attorney. He told me the amount and intensity of intimidation and outright threats ("hope your wife doesn't have any traffic stops for the next 10 years") that rained down on him as a result was astonishing. If he hadn't been an extraordinarily stubborn person he would have given in, regardless of what he and the rest of the Jury througt was "right" as citizens.
That matches up with just about everything I have heard about the "protections" offered by the Grand Jury system.
> Did you install your own airbags, brakelines, > windshield and headlights?
After witnessing a fairly horrifying traffic accident with fatalities, I did order the supplemental airbag package (includes side curtain air bags and more sophisticated sensors) in my next vehicle at extra cost, yes. And I replaced the brake system on my Honda with one from a racing supplier, as I was not satisfied with the performance of the factory system.
So yes, I do take actions of that type when I think they are justified.
until I pointed out to him that no one actually punched it when facing his car, because it was just a joke.
I hear what you are saying, but back in the 1986-1987-1988 time period I could trigger off a stoplight contest without much problem. Edge up a few times and watch the other guy's head; when he turned his head just enough to look at you out the corner of his eyes you knew he was hooked.
Then he would proceed to "teach you a lesson", which usually didn't go quite as he expected!
I agree today no one would even look at the CRX, but there weren't many truely fast cars on the road in those days.
He mentioned installing a firewall (such as ZoneAlarm) which is free and would do as effective a job as your $80 solution.
ZoneAlarm is potentally another solution. However, it suffers from the same chicken-and-egg problem as Windows Updates (the boxed copies are on store shelves aren't free, and if the person knows enough to download/burn it in advance, he probably doesn't have the problem) and also the issue of start-up order.
No, I don't work for D-Link. That is the first name that came to mind.
Ah yes. When I buy my car I'll need to get the tow truck with it too because everyone knows that the car won't make it home! That's a perfectly acceptable solution! People have suggested that the car companies just make the cars more reliable but everyone knows that's crazy!
Look, I am not trying to defend Microsoft here. But I do have small tool kit, a first aid kit, a pressure guage, and a fire extinguisher in my car. Purchased at my own expense; not provided by the auto manufacturer. I think those are reasonable and prudent expenditures. That is what I am advocating.
So your solution is to spend $80 on hardware to workaround a defect in $100+ software?
The value of a system isn't in the cash-and-carry price of the components; it is in the data and applications running on it, the time and effort to get it configured properly, and the opportunity cost of not having it in operation. $79 isn't much against those costs.
Does he have to carry this device around with his laptop everywhere?
Plenty of corporate travellers do just that, yes. But in the scenario presented he only needs it for freshly installed systems not yet fully configured. Assuming he trusts his WinXP configs to be secure.
A D-Link port-80-only firewall can be had at any number of electronics stores (heck, probably at Walgreen's too) for $79. It isn't a total solution, but it will protect a personal machine long enough to get the Windows Updates installed.
If the author is unaware of this, or not capable of installing such a device on his Internet connection, just how seriously can we take the rest of his essay?
My 1986 Honda Civic CRX (a 2 seater, but essentially the same size as the Prius) with mechanical carb and 5-speed manual got 40-45 mpg in fast/heavy city driving. It always seemed to me that with computer-controlled fuel injection and a 6-speed it should have hit 50 easily. Plus I could toast 98% of the cars on the road at that time at the stoplight (Corvettes included - at least for the first 100 yards!).
So now come the hybrids with tons of technology, multi-speed automatics or CVTs, etc etc etc. Yet they barely do better than my 1985 CRX.
The most useful math class I ever took (from the perspective of engineering, IT, and life in general) was Engineering Probability. Note the word Engineering in the title - it was taught in the Engineering School, not the Math Dept or (shudder) the Business School. I have used techniques from that class at least once a month for 20 years, and I cannot say that about any other class (except Intro to Political Thought, but that's another topic).
The particular class I took was one of a pair; mine was 2/3 probability and 1/3 statistics. The twin class was 2/3 statistics and 1/3 probability. Either version would have worked in the end, but I suspect most engineers find probability more interesting.
Take them if you can find them, even if you have to go to another school to do so.
The way I see it, cold fusion is such a tremendously holy grail, and the Pons-Fleischman experiment was simple enough to replicate, it would've made more sense to throw some more experimental funding at it years ago. A handful of failed attempts to replicate the results are discouraging, yes, but the potential benefits should've justified a bit more tinkering back when it was announced.
What was then the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), a research consortium sponsored by North American electric utilities, and its counterpart in Japan continued to fund cold fusion research with significant dollars long after the "crank" label was applied to P-F.
Believe me, whatever the mythical secret-suppressing automobile manufacturers/oil drillers don't want revealed, the the electic industry very much does want a new energy source. However, nothing was ever found and the work was de-funded after about 8 years.
I remember I was at a nuclear power trade conference the week the Pons-Fleischman announcement was originally made. And my first thought when I heard about it then was, where are the neutrons? A nuclear process that produces that much excess energy should also produce enough neutrons to kill everyone in the building where it is being tested.
So, I guess that is still my question. It always seemed to me that there was some sort of poorly understood reaction going on, but it was more likely a physical chemistry issue than a nuclear issue.
There are some indications that IBM is working on unsealing the USL vs. BSDI case. That would require working methodically and carefully up the ladder to prove that they need the documents; Novell would be a logical starting point.
IANAL, but I think court sanctioned subpoenas pretty much overrule any sort of confidentiality agreement/contract.
I think (NAL) that the subpoena-ee can file a motion to have the subponea amended or quashed if it is not material to the lawsuit or too intrusive to the subpoena-ee's business. The court may or may not grant that motion.
hmm, 'Capital Depreciation Analysis' software notwithstanding, 90% of computers in offices could be replaced with something like Linux tomorrow, and the users would notice the change of desktop background and not much else.
I don't mean to be rude, but did you notice the part of the sentence that said "pick any random business requirement"? Of the 100 or so Windows workstations under my control at the moment, at least 40 are running at least one special-purpose app. And we aren't a very computer-aggressive organization - I have seen engineering shops with 20 small apps on a PC.
Asking a manufacturing company to replace a $295 boxed product with a bespoke Java development process is a bit unrealistic, IMHO.
and you find, install, and train us on business apps that are as good as the ones we have now.
Simple solution, fire a MSCE and hire a RHCE
Unfortunately, that turns out not to be the case. Think of any random business requirement that can be addressed by software - say, "Capital Depreciation Analysis". Google for a set of products to evaluate.
Note that at least 99 out of 100 products you find to meet that need are Windows apps. If not 99999/100000. And if you tell me "run it under an emulator", I am afraid the business units' response will be "if we need an emulator, why not just get Windows in the first place".
So, you need to respond to the other half of the question.
AT&T also erred in spinning off AT&T wireless as a tracking stock (A mistake Sprint has soon learned) and hiring Michael Armstrong as CEO
Keep in mind though that during that entire time period Worldcom was lying about its financials to Wall Street, to the tune of $40 billion. AT&T was under tremendous pressure from the financial world to match Worldcom's performance, which of course they could never have done since Worldcom wasn't really doing it either.
Under Armstrong, AT&T had the only large-scale telecom strategy that I thought would work: a comprehensive menu of business and high-value consumer services, all under one roof. Two problems: they never got the divisions to work together. And they way overpaid for the cable assets.
sPh
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Actually if you look at the world temperatures over the last 100 years there has been a warming.
OTOH, during the period 900-1100 the Scandanavians were colonizing Greenland and far northeast Canada and growing crops there - areas considered uninhabitably cold today.
So long-term cycles in global temperature are not unknown.
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Interestingly however it does not use IOS. Which brings up several questions: is Cisco going to start replacing IOS with redesigned-from-scratch (watch out for second system effect!)? Or will they maintain two routing software bases, IOS and whatever the new one is called? Will this be an issue from either a marketing or technical/CCIE perspective?
sPh
HP stopped innovating in printers about 5 years ago (say 1998 or so) and since then has just been releasing variations that require new, propriatary toner cartridges every 18 months. Basically a razors/blades scam.
So, this contest doesn't mean what you think it means.
sPh
> Would it not be more likely that your ISP is
> having problems? Or do you send all requests
> directly to the root servers?
Our ISP is a pretty big one, and we use djbdns which I believe goes to the roots if the lookup is not cached.
Still, your questions are good ones and we have asked ourselves the same things. Usually when response seems slow in the office it is also slow on various cable and DSL services at employee's homes too though.
Maybe I am just getting old and cranky: "When I was young the 'net was FAST. And we didn't have any extra "Inter" letters on the front of it either!".
sPh
As a small company we have a limited view of the Internet, but it seems to us that there have been DNS and connectivity problems thoughout the Internet for the last 90 days or so. I was guessing that there was a DDoS attack against the root DNS servers that wasn't being reported. This would seem to be along the same lines.
sPh
People will go to incredible extremes to get revenge on those they belive have wronged them.
sPh
sPh
So, when subpoea'ing, you ask for every document the other guys has. Then your lawyer and his lawyer agree on what is confidential, or if they can't agree, the judge decides (I am told judges despise litigants who can't come to agreements on that sort of stuff).
sPh
5 months past the deadline and FSF is just posting this? Seems as if there is some agenda here...
sPh
That matches up with just about everything I have heard about the "protections" offered by the Grand Jury system.
sPh
> Did you install your own airbags, brakelines,
> windshield and headlights?
After witnessing a fairly horrifying traffic accident with fatalities, I did order the supplemental airbag package (includes side curtain air bags and more sophisticated sensors) in my next vehicle at extra cost, yes. And I replaced the brake system on my Honda with one from a racing supplier, as I was not satisfied with the performance of the factory system.
So yes, I do take actions of that type when I think they are justified.
sPh
Then he would proceed to "teach you a lesson", which usually didn't go quite as he expected!
I agree today no one would even look at the CRX, but there weren't many truely fast cars on the road in those days.
sPh
No, I don't work for D-Link. That is the first name that came to mind.
sPh
sPh
sPh
A D-Link port-80-only firewall can be had at any number of electronics stores (heck, probably at Walgreen's too) for $79. It isn't a total solution, but it will protect a personal machine long enough to get the Windows Updates installed.
If the author is unaware of this, or not capable of installing such a device on his Internet connection, just how seriously can we take the rest of his essay?
sPh
My 1986 Honda Civic CRX (a 2 seater, but essentially the same size as the Prius) with mechanical carb and 5-speed manual got 40-45 mpg in fast/heavy city driving. It always seemed to me that with computer-controlled fuel injection and a 6-speed it should have hit 50 easily. Plus I could toast 98% of the cars on the road at that time at the stoplight (Corvettes included - at least for the first 100 yards!).
So now come the hybrids with tons of technology, multi-speed automatics or CVTs, etc etc etc. Yet they barely do better than my 1985 CRX.
Odd.
sPh
The particular class I took was one of a pair; mine was 2/3 probability and 1/3 statistics. The twin class was 2/3 statistics and 1/3 probability. Either version would have worked in the end, but I suspect most engineers find probability more interesting.
Take them if you can find them, even if you have to go to another school to do so.
sPh
Believe me, whatever the mythical secret-suppressing automobile manufacturers/oil drillers don't want revealed, the the electic industry very much does want a new energy source. However, nothing was ever found and the work was de-funded after about 8 years.
sPh
I remember I was at a nuclear power trade conference the week the Pons-Fleischman announcement was originally made. And my first thought when I heard about it then was, where are the neutrons? A nuclear process that produces that much excess energy should also produce enough neutrons to kill everyone in the building where it is being tested.
So, I guess that is still my question. It always seemed to me that there was some sort of poorly understood reaction going on, but it was more likely a physical chemistry issue than a nuclear issue.
sPh
sPh
sPh
Asking a manufacturing company to replace a $295 boxed product with a bespoke Java development process is a bit unrealistic, IMHO.
sPh
Note that at least 99 out of 100 products you find to meet that need are Windows apps. If not 99999/100000. And if you tell me "run it under an emulator", I am afraid the business units' response will be "if we need an emulator, why not just get Windows in the first place".
So, you need to respond to the other half of the question.
sPh
Under Armstrong, AT&T had the only large-scale telecom strategy that I thought would work: a comprehensive menu of business and high-value consumer services, all under one roof. Two problems: they never got the divisions to work together. And they way overpaid for the cable assets.
sPh
So long-term cycles in global temperature are not unknown.
sPh