WHAT? Routing faster? No way. When the frames hit the switch backplane and then are SWITCHED to the proper port that will be worlds faster than the router reading the packets, then sending them to the switch, (even if the router is a blade in the switch chassis, then being forwarded to the port. The lower you stay on the 7 layer model, the faster you go.
It sounds like the network was operating at or near saturation normally. Designing a network 5 years ago, for traffic loads at that time, then running the "2.1" versions of the same software, without looking at an upgrade to the infrastructure, is most probably the issue.
As far as saying that the network was crap because it didn't recover when the offender was unplugged; That's not altogether true. Since I don't know the nature of the offending traffic, I know I couldn't make that call. I can relate how the removal of two networked printers crippled large sections of a large network because 2 AS400s and one mainframe printed reports to them, and continued to try to print to them upon failure because the job loop required a verification. 2 weeks of backed up reports rendered the network quite unusable on those sections of the Class B.
I bought a certified stone...highly rated in the 4Cs...loose, in order to design my then girlfriend a ring. Flash forward...I don't need the rock, and even though it's appraised through the roof, certified out the wazoo, and I got it from a diamond wholesaler (a pretty cool affair actually), so I got a good deal (relative to the other options); I need the cash now for something else and can't get two-thirds what I paid for it.
There is technology available for virtual keyboards, but the thing has a touchscreen. Mac has long had the ability for "rotate" the display, so, simple hack, map the display out to use it side by side for reading mode and "rotate" it to use one LCD as a keyboard. I personally like a pretty heavy "response" from my keyboards but heck, I've adapted to my Blackberry pretty well, although I wouldn't want to write a novel on it...
I used to agree with the emotion behind this post. Now I realize through leveraged pricing on the desktops, Microsoft _has_ violated the anti-trust laws.
When you lean on a hardware company with the arm of "If you make any other OS available from the factory we raise the price of your cost per desktop to above what we charge your competitor" you have violated anti-trust legislation and engaged in something very close to business extortion. Now as geeks, we know that there are a plethora of options, but to Joe User, if Dell/Gateway/Compaq doesn't offer an alternative OS...it doesn't exist. Netscape what? Isn't there a thing to go on the WWW already installed? Why would I want something different? I would like to clearly note on every PC sold worldwide the cost of Windows to the consumer. I would also like to see alternatives listed and their cost to the consumer at large. Then you would see a sea change to an alternative OS.
The scariest thing to me is how most large corporations have investment portfolios, and in those portfolios are shares of Microsoft. So if a large organization, say 85k+ desktops, has a significant share of it's hedge in Microsoft, do you think that the CIO/CEO is going to advocate the abandonment of the MS desktop, not matter how super-duper gee-whiz great the alternative is? Not very damn likely.
Face it...Microsoft sold themselves as the best thing since sliced bread with a totally inferior product, because it's OS worked on lower cost hardware than it's principle competitor (Apple). Now Apple is still overpriced hardware, but MS is _also_ Apple and Linux is focusing on "yesterdays" hardware. So basically MS is saying to the corporate suits, put up or shut up. If we go under, you suffer.
Rather than have a sanity check over costs of the desktop image to the corporation, we continue to buy new over-priced, over-blow software and the new platforms required to run it. All this because Uncle Bill said it was best for us.
When the first IT guy makes CEO of a bank...we win...
The convienent web interface will speed trouble reporting and resolution...Uh...Hello? The truth is they can do absolutely nothing constructive...close the ticket and have no interaction with the customer whatsoever until he or she tries to CALL in to the call center and gets the 45 minute callback announcement. The truth is, salespeople are just doing a job. If the purchasers would consult with engineers and describe what they are promising the internal customer, then the engineer could make an informed recommendation. Instead, salepeople take the purchaser out to lunches, the purchaser buys the line of crap they're shoveing, and then the end-user suffers..but of course we know it's always the desktop/server/network....
Gotta love Opera for the url linking concept..."g whatever" searches Google for whatever, "a whatever" does altavista, alongwith a host of others and you can easily set up more (fr searches Freshmeat for me)...between that, the ability to kill pop-ups, and the mouse click navigation, Opera is one bad browser.
I still stole the Ferrari, even if I took it for the joyride and returned it before the owner needed it back. I don't think there is MAJOR impact to the software giants via warez, but if I can't afford the gee-whiz big bang Adobe/Microsoft/whatever software, I'll probably buy someone else's product that accomplishes the same end result. So in the end, product is exchanged for commodity.
lost revenue if you wouldn't buy it in the first place? My opinion, for what it's worth, is that yeah it's theft. I wouldn't buy a Ferrari, but if if I took one for ride that belonged to someone else, I just stole it.
Everything went in clean with Mandrake 8.1 with OGLE as a staight outta the box DVD player with menu support. The sound is a bit flakey, can't get the "case speakers" and sound card to co-operate but the lineout to headphones works fine. Took a trip to Limmodem land to get the modem working. The build found my USB ZipCD and my USB Zio smartmedia reader (still won't write thought). With the harddrive upgrade I threw in and maxing out the system memory I have $375 in with a max of 8 hours work.
Ok...you're probably right there...but you're on crack if you think the network assistance offered under XP and 2000 won't look for MS software and hash your key against some database. I would bet good money that the MS legal eagles is already looking at a way to automate billing to registered OS users found to have pirated software.
"Mr Smith, according to your registry entries gathered when authorized MS techs were working your last OS bug...errrr FEATURE, you've been running a pirated version of Office for 2 months. That will be payment in full as the total cost of the package is pro-rated against a 30 day cycle. Failure to render payment will constitute a contract violation of you EULA, and this debt will be tendered to a collection agency."
OK...as a vet I can tell you while no death is "classified" the government routinely uses obfuscation to hide it's errors. A soldier KIA on the Korean DMZ is listed as death in a training accident...one dead in a black or grey op had a training accident at Fort Knox or Fort Dix, etc. , when they were actually 3 miles outside of Bagdhad. Why would this skirmish be any different?
As to the rest...while it wouldn't surprise me to see SEAL assets on the ground there, my bet is that the teams are on high alert an hour, more or less, airtime from Afghanistan. Just on the off chance that they get a tip on Bin Laden's whereabouts...
I'm currently employed as an engineer in the IT group of a behemoth in the banking/investing industry. Needless to say, along with the human impact of September 11th, we suffered a huge infrastructure as well. In a nutshell, we don't have a big footprint in the Verizon network directly, but basically they have the "last mile" monopoly in Manhattan. Even before this unpleasantness, they were unresponsive, generally un-knowledgable, and highly disagreeable to deal with. God help us if they gain anymore ground as a monopoly. MCI and World-Domm were ok until they merged...now they have the "my way or the highway" mentality. Apparently customer service. common courtesy and knowledgable staff aren't tenets that the TeleComm industry find antiquated.
That's a valid comparison. XM is higher quality sound with more options. Cable is of higher quality than broadcast TV and usually provides more options than broadcast. Commercial free costs extra, a la HBO.I for one probably won't partake as I listen to news/sports/talk radio and good old-fashioned CDs, content controlled by your's truly. I think the cost is a bit on the high side however, considering the packaging the cable companies are putting out now (101 channels, including 2 premium movie channels for $13.95!!! or whatever). Recorded music ceased to be any sort of major impact in my life after the recording borg decided in it's infinite wisdom to eliminate the single best marketing tool ever...Napster. The only good I see here is that maybe this will force the FCC off it's dead @$$ and make those puritans see that maybe we should really believe in the 1st Amendment and that it applies to broadcast medium too!
I'm not defending them, I defending ME. If there is X amount of "space" on a segment and your webserver is clocking 1000+ hits a day in prime time...my performance suffers due to your callous disregard for the contract we both signed, therefore you are in essence "stealing" from me. What you're saying is the same as "I'm hungry and want steak but it's too much, so I'll pay for hamburger and take home a filet mignon." Your desire to have what you want does not mitigate your responsibility to abide by the law of supply and demand. If the supply is limited, and you need it bad enough, you pay. End of story
You're entitled to your opinion, but the simple fact of the matter is that you don't have that bandwidth...you share that bandwidth. Anyone else on your "segment" has to make do with whatever you decide not to use.
BTW...my first dial-up was to a main-frame with a homemade PET at 300 baud in 1978...Heck I just wanted to play Star Trek...
You're right. AOL is the model for the "pay-for-use" internet. But the true Internet, is a common-policy based collection of independant networks. Apparently I'm the only one who remembers the early days of connectivity when everything was a long-distance call (unless you lived in a major metropolitin center) that was arbitrarily disconnected due to crappy infrastructure and Ma Bell's desire to earn that high-coin call setup fee. Compucrap, AOL and the rest of the pirates kept modem pools filled with "last year's" modems, so the connections would be as slow as possible and rack up those per minute charges the was de rigeur standard at that time.
Academia driving the Internet? Pish-tosh! They had the internet forever and it never grew beyond a few doctorial thesis and MUDS. Joe User saw the wide-open spaces of a true Internet and demanded access. Now if it's slow and crowded, so be it. Switch providers to someone with a bigger shorter pipe to the MAEs, SNAPs, NAPs,FIXs whatever. Buy your own T-1 or Fract T-1 from your baby Bell.
Just don't let a freaking idiot bean-counter have the reins.
Remember, those that can...do. Those that can't...teach. Those that can neither do NOR teach...become accountants.
While that's true on dedicated access, you have selected broadband access as your transit medium. DNS, SMTP, POP, SNMP, HTTP all these services eat up bandwidth. These are not "necessarily" home use. You serving a website and domain info takes up bandwidth that we need to share, not consume via your vanity trip. If you want the experience of admin of these devices, build you a private network, but don't serve it across the common pipe!
...there would be no guarantee of privacy on snail mail. America has become a caricature of itself. Freedom has been eroded in all counts. When freedom is traded for safety, society suffers.
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WHAT? Routing faster? No way. When the frames hit the switch backplane and then are SWITCHED to the proper port that will be worlds faster than the router reading the packets, then sending them to the switch, (even if the router is a blade in the switch chassis, then being forwarded to the port. The lower you stay on the 7 layer model, the faster you go.
;-p
It sounds like the network was operating at or near saturation normally. Designing a network 5 years ago, for traffic loads at that time, then running the "2.1" versions of the same software, without looking at an upgrade to the infrastructure, is most probably the issue.
As far as saying that the network was crap because it didn't recover when the offender was unplugged; That's not altogether true. Since I don't know the nature of the offending traffic, I know I couldn't make that call. I can relate how the removal of two networked printers crippled large sections of a large network because 2 AS400s and one mainframe printed reports to them, and continued to try to print to them upon failure because the job loop required a verification. 2 weeks of backed up reports rendered the network quite unusable on those sections of the Class B.
Lesson learned: Mind your prints and queues
With attitudes like this around....I wish had a larvenous side...
I essentially said the same thing in an earlier post and got modded down as Off-Topic.
TANJ
How is this offtopic? the only way this service is available is via CinemaNow, which is MS based.
When will they get the hint and stop offering such platform specfic formats? BILL GATES DOESN'T NEED MY MONEY.
I bought a certified stone...highly rated in the 4Cs...loose, in order to design my then girlfriend a ring. Flash forward...I don't need the rock, and even though it's appraised through the roof, certified out the wazoo, and I got it from a diamond wholesaler (a pretty cool affair actually), so I got a good deal (relative to the other options); I need the cash now for something else and can't get two-thirds what I paid for it.
Big ripoff
There is technology available for virtual keyboards, but the thing has a touchscreen. Mac has long had the ability for "rotate" the display, so, simple hack, map the display out to use it side by side for reading mode and "rotate" it to use one LCD as a keyboard. I personally like a pretty heavy "response" from my keyboards but heck, I've adapted to my Blackberry pretty well, although I wouldn't want to write a novel on it...
I used to agree with the emotion behind this post. Now I realize through leveraged pricing on the desktops, Microsoft _has_ violated the anti-trust laws.
When you lean on a hardware company with the arm of "If you make any other OS available from the factory we raise the price of your cost per desktop to above what we charge your competitor" you have violated anti-trust legislation and engaged in something very close to business extortion. Now as geeks, we know that there are a plethora of options, but to Joe User, if Dell/Gateway/Compaq doesn't offer an alternative OS...it doesn't exist. Netscape what? Isn't there a thing to go on the WWW already installed? Why would I want something different? I would like to clearly note on every PC sold worldwide the cost of Windows to the consumer. I would also like to see alternatives listed and their cost to the consumer at large. Then you would see a sea change to an alternative OS.
The scariest thing to me is how most large corporations have investment portfolios, and in those portfolios are shares of Microsoft. So if a large organization, say 85k+ desktops, has a significant share of it's hedge in Microsoft, do you think that the CIO/CEO is going to advocate the abandonment of the MS desktop, not matter how super-duper gee-whiz great the alternative is? Not very damn likely.
Face it...Microsoft sold themselves as the best thing since sliced bread with a totally inferior product, because it's OS worked on lower cost hardware than it's principle competitor (Apple). Now Apple is still overpriced hardware, but MS is _also_ Apple and Linux is focusing on "yesterdays" hardware. So basically MS is saying to the corporate suits, put up or shut up. If we go under, you suffer.
Rather than have a sanity check over costs of the desktop image to the corporation, we continue to buy new over-priced, over-blow software and the new platforms required to run it. All this because Uncle Bill said it was best for us.
When the first IT guy makes CEO of a bank...we win...
The convienent web interface will speed trouble reporting and resolution...Uh...Hello? The truth is they can do absolutely nothing constructive...close the ticket and have no interaction with the customer whatsoever until he or she tries to CALL in to the call center and gets the 45 minute callback announcement. The truth is, salespeople are just doing a job. If the purchasers would consult with engineers and describe what they are promising the internal customer, then the engineer could make an informed recommendation. Instead, salepeople take the purchaser out to lunches, the purchaser buys the line of crap they're shoveing, and then the end-user suffers..but of course we know it's always the desktop/server/network....
Gotta love Opera for the url linking concept..."g whatever" searches Google for whatever, "a whatever" does altavista, alongwith a host of others and you can easily set up more (fr searches Freshmeat for me)...between that, the ability to kill pop-ups, and the mouse click navigation, Opera is one bad browser.
I still stole the Ferrari, even if I took it for the joyride and returned it before the owner needed it back. I don't think there is MAJOR impact to the software giants via warez, but if I can't afford the gee-whiz big bang Adobe/Microsoft/whatever software, I'll probably buy someone else's product that accomplishes the same end result. So in the end, product is exchanged for commodity.
lost revenue if you wouldn't buy it in the first place? My opinion, for what it's worth, is that yeah it's theft. I wouldn't buy a Ferrari, but if if I took one for ride that belonged to someone else, I just stole it.
Everything went in clean with Mandrake 8.1 with OGLE as a staight outta the box DVD player with menu support. The sound is a bit flakey, can't get the "case speakers" and sound card to co-operate but the lineout to headphones works fine. Took a trip to Limmodem land to get the modem working. The build found my USB ZipCD and my USB Zio smartmedia reader (still won't write thought). With the harddrive upgrade I threw in and maxing out the system memory I have $375 in with a max of 8 hours work.
Ok...you're probably right there...but you're on crack if you think the network assistance offered under XP and 2000 won't look for MS software and hash your key against some database. I would bet good money that the MS legal eagles is already looking at a way to automate billing to registered OS users found to have pirated software.
"Mr Smith, according to your registry entries gathered when authorized MS techs were working your last OS bug...errrr FEATURE, you've been running a pirated version of Office for 2 months. That will be payment in full as the total cost of the package is pro-rated against a 30 day cycle. Failure to render payment will constitute a contract violation of you EULA, and this debt will be tendered to a collection agency."
First post?
CF is best value? Uh...hello...128M smartmedia is cheaper than 128M of Compact flash...
OK...as a vet I can tell you while no death is "classified" the government routinely uses obfuscation to hide it's errors. A soldier KIA on the Korean DMZ is listed as death in a training accident...one dead in a black or grey op had a training accident at Fort Knox or Fort Dix, etc. , when they were actually 3 miles outside of Bagdhad. Why would this skirmish be any different?
As to the rest...while it wouldn't surprise me to see SEAL assets on the ground there, my bet is that the teams are on high alert an hour, more or less, airtime from Afghanistan. Just on the off chance that they get a tip on Bin Laden's whereabouts...
I'm currently employed as an engineer in the IT group of a behemoth in the banking/investing industry. Needless to say, along with the human impact of September 11th, we suffered a huge infrastructure as well. In a nutshell, we don't have a big footprint in the Verizon network directly, but basically they have the "last mile" monopoly in Manhattan. Even before this unpleasantness, they were unresponsive, generally un-knowledgable, and highly disagreeable to deal with. God help us if they gain anymore ground as a monopoly. MCI and World-Domm were ok until they merged...now they have the "my way or the highway" mentality. Apparently customer service. common courtesy and knowledgable staff aren't tenets that the TeleComm industry find antiquated.
That's a valid comparison. XM is higher quality sound with more options. Cable is of higher quality than broadcast TV and usually provides more options than broadcast. Commercial free costs extra, a la HBO.I for one probably won't partake as I listen to news/sports/talk radio and good old-fashioned CDs, content controlled by your's truly. I think the cost is a bit on the high side however, considering the packaging the cable companies are putting out now (101 channels, including 2 premium movie channels for $13.95!!! or whatever). Recorded music ceased to be any sort of major impact in my life after the recording borg decided in it's infinite wisdom to eliminate the single best marketing tool ever...Napster. The only good I see here is that maybe this will force the FCC off it's dead @$$ and make those puritans see that maybe we should really believe in the 1st Amendment and that it applies to broadcast medium too!
I'm not defending them, I defending ME. If there is X amount of "space" on a segment and your webserver is clocking 1000+ hits a day in prime time...my performance suffers due to your callous disregard for the contract we both signed, therefore you are in essence "stealing" from me. What you're saying is the same as "I'm hungry and want steak but it's too much, so I'll pay for hamburger and take home a filet mignon." Your desire to have what you want does not mitigate your responsibility to abide by the law of supply and demand. If the supply is limited, and you need it bad enough, you pay. End of story
You're entitled to your opinion, but the simple fact of the matter is that you don't have that bandwidth...you share that bandwidth. Anyone else on your "segment" has to make do with whatever you decide not to use.
BTW...my first dial-up was to a main-frame with a homemade PET at 300 baud in 1978...Heck I just wanted to play Star Trek...
anyone else remember THAT?
You're right. AOL is the model for the "pay-for-use" internet. But the true Internet, is a common-policy based collection of independant networks. Apparently I'm the only one who remembers the early days of connectivity when everything was a long-distance call (unless you lived in a major metropolitin center) that was arbitrarily disconnected due to crappy infrastructure and Ma Bell's desire to earn that high-coin call setup fee. Compucrap, AOL and the rest of the pirates kept modem pools filled with "last year's" modems, so the connections would be as slow as possible and rack up those per minute charges the was de rigeur standard at that time.
,FIXs whatever. Buy your own T-1 or Fract T-1 from your baby Bell.
Academia driving the Internet? Pish-tosh! They had the internet forever and it never grew beyond a few doctorial thesis and MUDS. Joe User saw the wide-open spaces of a true Internet and demanded access. Now if it's slow and crowded, so be it. Switch providers to someone with a bigger shorter pipe to the MAEs, SNAPs, NAPs
Just don't let a freaking idiot bean-counter have the reins.
Remember, those that can...do. Those that can't...teach. Those that can neither do NOR teach...become accountants.
While that's true on dedicated access, you have selected broadband access as your transit medium. DNS, SMTP, POP, SNMP, HTTP all these services eat up bandwidth. These are not "necessarily" home use. You serving a website and domain info takes up bandwidth that we need to share, not consume via your vanity trip. If you want the experience of admin of these devices, build you a private network, but don't serve it across the common pipe!
My guess...
...there would be no guarantee of privacy on snail mail. America has become a caricature of itself. Freedom has been eroded in all counts. When freedom is traded for safety, society suffers.