For all the crud that comes around here about how Verizon Wireless is an evil company, I can tell you, they are a very fair and honest company. They truly believe in doing what's right - both by customers, and by employees.
Obviously, things like call records and such need to be kept for some amount of time, both for troubleshooting as well as legal issues (court orders, etc.) That's a pretty serious responsibility. That's why you have audits logs every time that data gets accessed.
The system works, apparently. The folks who got suspended with pay all had their hands in the cookie jar. From what it sounds like, they're going to be sorting out who was there for legit purposes (i.e. a technical issue, billing question, etc.) and who was doing something they shouldn't have been.
I think suspending with pay is quite fair. If you were in those records, doing legitimate work, that will come to light, and you'll have suffered no loss. If you did something you shouldn't have done, well, that'll come out too and when that's determined, due process will catch up to you.
Good call on their part, and frankly, I can't think of any better way to handle it. It's good to see that the right processes are in place such that employees can do their job when they need to, but it gets flagged when someone is doing something shady.
True enough... I live in Cablevision territory (NJ also), and have a 30mbps downstream/5mbps upstream plan for $44.90/month. Can't beat that with a stick.
It is absolutely depressing to me that everyone shows some concern over the ashes of an ACTOR, but ignores the fact that a TRUE SPACE HERO (Gordo Cooper), one of the Mercury 7, was onboard..... yikes.
I've been hearing that for 10+ years now, and this is a prime example of where the Linux folks miss the boat.
Do you really think my parents give a rolling fig about GPL vs. non-GPL code, who's exporting who's symbols or any of that? They just want their damned wireless Internet to work...... and that's why they have a Mac. Seriously - nice concept, the whole Linux thing, but it just isn't going to be for the masses. Sorry to tell you that.
Time to re-arm and focus on the enterprise - you stand a shot there. But even there - it needs work. Stability, for one. A Red Hat box that is out of date the day we deploy it does nobody any good. A real patch management strategy would be nice.
Binary compatibility for another. I can pick up an HP-UX PA-RISC 9 binary, drop it on an HP-UX 11.31 Itanium system and it _just runs_. Same holds true for Sun -- drop a SunOS 4 binary on a SunOS 5.10 (yes, that's Solaris 10) system, and it _just runs_.
Once Linux can do that - without recompiling, without having to resolve mutually exclusive dependencies - you just might give enterprise Unix a run for the money. Oh, and you'll have to scale up to 128+ processors too. Again - HPUX and Solaris both do that fine.
Ooh, sorry, I forgot the obligatory "I'm just a happy customer" comment. Really. I have no relationship with Ironport whatsoever besides being a happy customer.
I guess that any positive comments instantly become astroturfing? Believe me, or don't. It doesn't matter to me. I just wanted to share a story about how something most people see as negative can be a positive.
I heard about it when I saw the black smoke out the front window of my house. I was living at the time on the lower side of the New Jersey Palisades, so I was able to see the smoke rising, but not the tips of the towers (The palisades cliffs were between me and the towers.)
I drove to Boulevard East in Weehawken, just in time to watch the Southtower collapse.
Congratulations on 10 years of hard work. You have a lot to be proud of.
Keep fighting the good fight.
I still swear some days that the trolls are going to drive me out, but here I am.... still here.
And as an aside - Slashdot (and its ads... believe it or not.) led me to one of the best decisions I ever made in my career.
Moons ago, you had an ad running for some company called "Ironport". They had a neat device that was just a mail delivery engine. As a company that has over 60 million customers, that's important to us. When customers' bills are ready, we're sending, well, 60 million emails. So such a "spam cannon:" is important.
Anyway, that simple banner ad on Slashdot put me in touch with the folks at Ironport, and here we are, 5+ years later, with a completely modern email infrastructure that Just Works (tm). The Ironport folks made some changes to their appliances to meet our particular needs, and it's been a great partnership for us.
Thanks guys. And if it weren't for that "icky" advertising, it would've never happened.
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No, they're not, the capping went the way of the dodo several years ago.
5-6 years ago is a long time - no more caps. Even on the BOOST (30mbps down/5mbps up) service.
Obviously you don't live in a Cablevision territory, otherwise you'd know that they absolutely DO deliver what they claim.
http://www.speedtest.net/rank/1129628824.png
Corning's bendable fiber. There ya go.
http://www.xchangemag.com/hotnews/77h23134942.html
Thank you.
For all the crud that comes around here about how Verizon Wireless is an evil company, I can tell you, they are a very fair and honest company. They truly believe in doing what's right - both by customers, and by employees.
Obviously, things like call records and such need to be kept for some amount of time, both for troubleshooting as well as legal issues (court orders, etc.) That's a pretty serious responsibility. That's why you have audits logs every time that data gets accessed.
The system works, apparently. The folks who got suspended with pay all had their hands in the cookie jar. From what it sounds like, they're going to be sorting out who was there for legit purposes (i.e. a technical issue, billing question, etc.) and who was doing something they shouldn't have been.
I think suspending with pay is quite fair. If you were in those records, doing legitimate work, that will come to light, and you'll have suffered no loss. If you did something you shouldn't have done, well, that'll come out too and when that's determined, due process will catch up to you.
Good call on their part, and frankly, I can't think of any better way to handle it. It's good to see that the right processes are in place such that employees can do their job when they need to, but it gets flagged when someone is doing something shady.
Hey whipper-snapper, get off MY lawn!
You expect me to pollute my Mac with Chromium?
Living in New Jersey, there's more than enough of it around, thankyouverymuch.
Tried that, bounced back to OS/2 from Linux .... went from OS/2 -> Linux -> OS/2 -> Solaris -> OS/2 -> Mac OS X.
Happily ever after, or so the saying goes.
Incorrect.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOCSIS
DOCSIS Upstream is 27mbps.
I just ran a Speedtest at www.speedtest.net if you don't believe me: http://www.speedtest.net/result/313675847.png
True enough ... I live in Cablevision territory (NJ also), and have a 30mbps downstream/5mbps upstream plan for $44.90/month. Can't beat that with a stick.
Records stored. It's not a no-op, the data comes in raw, gets massaged in a C program and stored in a large Oracle database.
So I should say, 130k data records/sec massaged & inserted.
Wish I could, but I can't provide more details than that. Suffice it to say though that performance is of the utmost importance.
Nope. This was a full-up Oracle database. Not a benchmark - that's the day-to-day run rate, in real-world production.
The last UNIX system I built was handling over 130,000 transactions PER SECOND.
HP Superdome + Itanium = incredibly fast.
Yeah, and I've got you beat too. I don't remember appointing you the Membership Police.
I have absolutely nothing productive to add to this conversation.
Your point?
It is absolutely depressing to me that everyone shows some concern over the ashes of an ACTOR, but ignores the fact that a TRUE SPACE HERO (Gordo Cooper), one of the Mercury 7, was onboard. .... yikes.
.... exactly. Makes me happy that "my" article submission was the one that launched the entire Apple section here at /.
My, how times have changed.
Ack! Even worse is that I'm apparently transposing digits today (just OVER 32k, not under) and committing typos (missed an 'r' in embarrassed ....)
Shoot, I could be an editor!
all this low-UID talk makes me wish I had signed up earlier .... I feel embarassed to be just under 32k. It should've been a lot less, but I was lazy.
And this is the year of the Linux desktop, right?
... and that's why they have a Mac. Seriously - nice concept, the whole Linux thing, but it just isn't going to be for the masses. Sorry to tell you that.
I've been hearing that for 10+ years now, and this is a prime example of where the Linux folks miss the boat.
Do you really think my parents give a rolling fig about GPL vs. non-GPL code, who's exporting who's symbols or any of that? They just want their damned wireless Internet to work...
Time to re-arm and focus on the enterprise - you stand a shot there. But even there - it needs work. Stability, for one. A Red Hat box that is out of date the day we deploy it does nobody any good. A real patch management strategy would be nice.
Binary compatibility for another. I can pick up an HP-UX PA-RISC 9 binary, drop it on an HP-UX 11.31 Itanium system and it _just runs_. Same holds true for Sun -- drop a SunOS 4 binary on a SunOS 5.10 (yes, that's Solaris 10) system, and it _just runs_.
Once Linux can do that - without recompiling, without having to resolve mutually exclusive dependencies - you just might give enterprise Unix a run for the money. Oh, and you'll have to scale up to 128+ processors too. Again - HPUX and Solaris both do that fine.
Agreed.
... Which is one of the ringtones on my phone now ....
Not to mention, the Intellivision had the first game with a theme song! (Snafu)
Bento.
From the folks who brought you FileMaker.
Ooh, sorry, I forgot the obligatory "I'm just a happy customer" comment. Really. I have no relationship with Ironport whatsoever besides being a happy customer.
I guess that any positive comments instantly become astroturfing? Believe me, or don't. It doesn't matter to me. I just wanted to share a story about how something most people see as negative can be a positive.
I heard about it when I saw the black smoke out the front window of my house. I was living at the time on the lower side of the New Jersey Palisades, so I was able to see the smoke rising, but not the tips of the towers (The palisades cliffs were between me and the towers.)
I drove to Boulevard East in Weehawken, just in time to watch the Southtower collapse.
One of the most awful days of my life.
Congratulations on 10 years of hard work. You have a lot to be proud of.
.... still here.
Keep fighting the good fight.
I still swear some days that the trolls are going to drive me out, but here I am
And as an aside - Slashdot (and its ads... believe it or not.) led me to one of the best decisions I ever made in my career.
Moons ago, you had an ad running for some company called "Ironport". They had a neat device that was just a mail delivery engine. As a company that has over 60 million customers, that's important to us. When customers' bills are ready, we're sending, well, 60 million emails. So such a "spam cannon:" is important.
Anyway, that simple banner ad on Slashdot put me in touch with the folks at Ironport, and here we are, 5+ years later, with a completely modern email infrastructure that Just Works (tm). The Ironport folks made some changes to their appliances to meet our particular needs, and it's been a great partnership for us.
Thanks guys. And if it weren't for that "icky" advertising, it would've never happened.
Wheeee!!
Oh, wait, I mean Wii.
Anyway, enjoy the rumble. My Wiimotes do that too, and it even has a little speaker to provide aural feedback in response to user interface events.
Wow, I didn't even know it was still around .... I stopped reading when it was still called "UNIX Review".
it was good then -- not great, but good.