I have yet to have a single Maxtor fail on me when bought from a reputable reseller. My only failed Maxtor (and that was a U/160 SCSI drive) came from Computer Giants. As far as I'm concerned they are a failed company. Anyone who buy sfrom them should expect problems. Back on topic, like I said, I've never had a single Maxtor failure. I have however had failed drives from Seagate, Western Digital, IBM, and Conner (oh god don't get me started on Conner). I never had a single Quantum failure before Maxtor bought them or after. As far as I'm concerned Maxtor is top-rate. Their customer service is excellent. I have yet to have a bad experience with Maxtor's CS. Perhaps your incident is fairly isolated. When you get you replacement drives, do they come from Maxtor or do they come from a reseller? Did you record the various lot numbers on the drive to look for a pattern (possibly bad batch which happens every so often)? As far as I'm concerned you can't go wrong with a Maxtor drive.
I use BBEdit for EVERYTHING. And I do mean EVERYTHING. I would write HTML with it. My Java, Javascript, C, Perl, and Bash shell scripting/programming was done with BBEdit. I'd edit massive numbers of MRTG and Nagios configuration files with it. BBEdit was my favorite tool for processing a list of spammers' domain names and netblocks for inclusive in my Sendmail access DB. It's Find and Replace feature set is riveled only by vi (and who in their right minds would want to use that?!). How many tools do you know let you search for a a string in all open windows, replace matches, and save all at the same time (as a simple example). BBEdit is an awesome tool and one that I don't mind upgrading every time.
My only complaint is that they don't make a Windows version. I am a Mac user but unfortunately I'm stuck on a XP box at the moment. Having my favorite text editor would go a long ways towards making this tolerable.
Ah hem... Dare I say I told you so
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I've been telling people since last Fall to *not* buy 802.11g hardware until the standard was complete. Why do people insist on buying pre-standard hardware? The standard can and usually does right up until the day that it's ratified. These changes might very well *NOT* be fixable in software. They might very well require a hardware change. If this change requires a hardware mod then you people that bought the pre-standard specs are SOL. No company in their right mind will offer a trade-in program. Enjoy your new paperweight.
The problem you experienced wasn't because this mythical limit to Ethernet. It's because you had too damned many nodes in a single collision domain. The Ethernet myth was made on the over-simplified interpretations of the assumptions made by Metcalfe's and Boggs's in the early testing of the "experimental" Ethernet (3Mbit Ethernet) and was part of the original Ethernet whitepaper. These tests assumed the maximum number of nodes simultaneously sending the maximum frame size and talking at the theoretical maximum line speed. These nodes were assumed to be connected together with the absolute maxiumum allowable lengths of cable, genereating the longest allowable round-trip response time. Did I mention that this myth started with a pre-standard Ethernet spec? In lay terms, this myth was based on bad interpretations of a lot of worst-case assumptions on a pre-standard form of what we call Ethernet.
ATM is the worst piece of shit imagineable to put in a LAN. LANE has got to be one of the all-time worst fuckups in networking history. You can't beat stuffing a 1518-byte frame into a 53-byte ATM cell. It's even worse than that. The ATM cell's payload is only 48 bytes. Ooooohhh.... That's got to hurt. There's a reason why ATM is no longer used in LAN environments (or isn't in new installations and is rapidly being removed from old installations). It's great for WANs. It's horrible for LANs.
The network you describe above is a larger version of what I spent the last 2.75 years trying to get fixed at my now former place of employment (/20 and a/22). Broadcasts storms caused eratic network failure and was undoubtedly contributing to piss-poor performance of the LAN. We too had ATM in our core (from long before I started there). They had migrated to switched Ethernet for most of the distribution and access layers. Unfortunately the hubs in the back room found their way back out onto the LAN to add a port here or replace a failed switch there. That certainly didn't help matters. That campus had two netblocks, even though it wasn't by true definition a routed LAN. We had a router on a stick essentially. Did I mention that it was a 2501? Yes, that's right. The 2500 series only have Ethernet interfaces capable of 10half. Oh, and I can't forget one sysadm's insatiable desire to put an old hub between the 2501 and the rest of the LAN so he could sniff? When it was finally recognized that collisions on the hub were a problem the solution cooked up by the sysadms was to buy a $70 NetGear 10/100 hub, so we coudl generate collisions faster. It didn't help the matters any that nodes were assigned IPs by user type, not physical location. This made any attempts to renumber the campus futile without the full support of the management. It would have been far less load on the router if we'd use either DHCP to add a static route to the both netblocks on all the machine or manually enter them. The ATM core, while technically running at 622Mps, was actually limited to 155Mbps by the fact that the ATM nic on in the chassis on either end of the 3 primary links were 155Mbps nics, not 622Mbps. This was also old Fore hardware. I didn't dare touch it for fear that it would break. I performed an upgrade on an ATM module in a new switch. The switch was 14 firmware revisions behind at the time. Unfortunately that broke LANE. The possible fixes was to upgrade all the ATM hardware to LANE-2 capable hardware or downgrade that switch. Any guesses on which I did? Oh hell, I almost forgot to mention. About 80% of the buildings were connected to the backbone via FDDI. Well, I shouldn't say they were connected to the backbone. I should say they were connected to their neighboring buildings. Eventually two of those were connected to one of two POPs. Of course it gets worse. Some of these buildings didn't have a single entry point for the network on the FDDI ring. A number of buildings ran the same FDDI network through every switch in the building, literally. It ran in one floor, all the way u
A friend of mine was bit by this little unwritten rule. Apparently many larger business toss out your resume if they've ever received it before. This is to stop people from carpeting bombing all the open position searches at a given company. What happened to him was that he found a job that really sounded promising. It was a sysadm job with certain security responsibilities that was right up his alley. He applied and never heard back from these folks. He waited a week and called. He was told his resume had been tossed out because the company received it more than once. He told them he only submitted it once. After some digging they realized that someone on the search committee used an online headhunter site (like monster/hotjobs) to search for people that met the job criteria. They printed the resumes out from those matches and included them in the search results. Whoops! When they found that they had two copies of his resume (the one he'd submitted and the one they found in online search) they tossed them both out. He eventually came to realize that most online resume search sites allow you to specify that only employers you approve can view your resume. Usually your name is returned in the search results. They can then request that you approve them to look your resume. He hadn't done that so any employer could view his resume. That's how that little unwritten rule came back to bite him in butt. The position was filled and he went to work for Sprint instead. Poor guy.
One would think, since you don't have to accept mail from any given person, that once you received a dozen or so from this one resume spammer that you could then blacklist him at your border MTA. The blacklisting happens before the DATA is received and therefore you've never technically received the resume. You just reject the connection as soon as you see who's on the other end of the line. You could always tempfail it and use up more of the spammer's resources....
No, YOU'VE got to be kidding ME
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Before 1993 or so and the advent of Switched Ethernet, Ethernet would melt down under the weight of its own traffic. 40% traffic for Ethernet is an emergency situation.
No, you're kidding me, right?
I can't believe this FUD is still out there after 30 years. Contrary to popular and mis-guided belief, an Ethernet will NOT saturate itself at 37% utilization. Period. Anyone that honestly believes that should give the token ring and ATM salesdroids and spin doctors a great big pat on the back because that's exactly what it is: sales doubletalk and spin from vendors of competing technologies. For christ's sake, this myth was laid to rest in September of 1988. This FUD relies on over-simplifications of assumptions in the theory and inadequacies in the testing procedures.
I can't believe you'd honestly bring it up. Anyone with even a marginal amount of actual networking experience knows this to be FUD. Next time think before you speak about something you know nothing about.
Damn. They are bastards. He should have challenged it. Various members of my family has had to call their insurance company on the carpet a number of times to get them to pay what they rightfully should have. My grandfather had to call the insurance commissioner to get his insurance company to live up to their end of the deal when a tornado ripped through his farm.
When I was in college my apt was hit by lightning and ultimately fried my TV, VCR, and microwave (the rest was the responsibility of the complex owners). I spent a fair amount of time trying to get my insurance company to pony up for the replacement cost renters insurance I was paying for. Finally the adjuster flat out lied and said that lightning wasn't covered under the policy, even though the policy they sold me showed that it was covered. That guy thought he had a measily college kid he could push around. I filed three complaint reports the next day. The first was with the local BBB. The 2nd was a city police report for theft. The last one was a complaint with my state's insurance commissioner. I xeroxed and mail all three to the insurance company's CEO via certified mail w/ return receipt. The day after the letter was received that local insurance company guy and someone representing the main office was on my door step knocking on my door. The local guy was as nice as can be. He kissed ass like you wouldn't believe. He was so nice is was sickening. They had a letter from the company that apologized for the "misunderstanding" and a check for twice the full amount ($1500 total). They said the excess was for my trouble in resolving the matter. They both apologized half a dozen times each. It was sickening. Still, I was pissed as hell; even now it still irks me. They asked what I'd be doing with the complaints I'd filed. I told them I'm drop the police complaint the next day and that I'd call the insurance commissioner's office and BBB office and report that the matter had been resolved to my satisfaction. They seemed relieved. As they were leaving they said something to the effect of "thank you for your business. We hope to do business with you again in the future" or something like that. From my doorstep I told them that wasn't neccessary. I told them to terminate my policy when the returned to the office and to send my a pro-rated refund for the remainder of the policy coverage. I then shut the door and kissed the check.:)
The police report probably shouldn't have been allowed to be filed. I really don't know if what they did would have counted as theft. The desk Sgt really didn't seem to give a damn. He just handed me the form to fill out and then watched me sign it when I was done. That was it really. When I wrote to the BBB and Insurance Commissioner's office I requested that they keep the complaint on file for reference in case they received future complaints.
Back to the topic of this reply, a Segway would most likely be covered because it's technically not a motorvehicle. It would be viewed the same as a motorized scooter.
I have to agree and disagree. At the very least we agree to disagree.
If I'd read on/. today that Washington state passed a law that minors couldn't buy violent videos just like someone under 17 can't view an R-rated movie, there would have undoubtedly been outcry from whiny little/. bitches. After a short amount of time to let the modding process work, we would have seen the more reasonable and non-kneejerk comments shining through the muddle bantering of the children that are on/. Among those comments would have been my own. If I saw such a law get passed then I would look at it as a Good Thing(tm). There isn't any reason a minor should be playing a violent game. From the perspective of a parent (which I am not yet) I wouldn't let me children view an R-rated movie until I thought they were mature enough to understand it, implying that I'd taught them the differences between right anfd wrong, fiction and real life well enough to to keep their views from becoming distorted by fiction or make believe. I would have been ok with that kind of law. I still wouldn't want the government to tell me how to be a parent though. They're doing too much of that as it is. And I still have reservations about how this affects on our 1st Amendment rights. It does and it doesn't. If it's limited to minors then I'm ok with it. Alcohol is limited to minors. Is drinking alcohol a form of protected speech? Minors having sex is highly regulated. Can't sex be a form of protected speech? We already say that minors can't view R-rated movies without parent approval. I don't really have a problem with a law that says minors can't purchase M-rated video games. That puts the decision to buy a copy of GTA III for little Johnny into the hands of his parents, who after all should know best if he's mature enough to handle it. Shouldn't they?
However that's not what I read this morning on/.. Instead I read that some bureaucrat in the state of Washington signed an patently unconstitutional bill into law in an attempt to buy the conservative vote for the next election. It's obvious as hell what his real intentions are. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure this out. He's a politician pure and simple. All politicians have their own agendas. Many state employees in general have their own agendas. Deciphering their actions to determine what their real agendas are is the real change. In many cases it's not that hard. Frequently it's obvious as hell. This is one of those cases.
Ideally we shouldn't need a law like this or even the own I day-dreamed about at the beginning my post. Ideally stores that sell games and videos that are meant for a mature audience would regulate themselves with store policies. Ideally parents would step up to the plate and take responsiblity for their children like the used to. We don't need laws like these in an ideal society. Of course we don't live in that ideal society. Stores will do anything to make a buck. If a 9-year old walked up to the checkout counter in Wal-Mart with a jumbo pack of ribbed condoms, I'd bet you $100 that the woman at the checkout would process the sale and send the 9-year old on his or her way. Parents nowadays are the most lazy sons of bitches in recorded history. Half the time they don't know where their children are or who their with. They don't know how they are doing in school. Hell they don't even know the names of their school teachers and would most likely get lost walking around in their school because they've never set foot in it! Society today is flawed. Laws aren't the answer though. Better parents is the answer.
...because your own DNA is 99.9% just like the person sitting next to you, and the person sitting next to them, and the person next to them, and so on and so forth. Human DNA is 99.9% like everyone else's and that takes into account race adn gender. I saw that on a Discovery special that used genetic diversification to show where the one true Eve was. southern Africa. That's right. According to genetic diversification we all originated from southern Africa. Interesting...
Technically every home owners policy I've ever seen would cover this, at least to a certain dollar amount. It would cover your lawn mower sitting out back and it would cover your Segway joking secured with a bicycle chain.
Yes, I do think they were fired due to the child porn incident. The CEO's response is full of legal and corporate double-stepping. I think when the matter is fully brought out in public I think this will be quite evident. I would not be surprised if Perry and Gross were fired for bringing the matter out in public.
Something that no one has done is put the chain of events in a complete timeline. When was the super notified? When did the super notify their boss? And their boss? When was the NYLS notified? When were the police actually contacted? Perry and Gross discovered the material on June 3. Their super told them on June 13 that she'd contacted the police. Did it really take the super, her supers, and the NYLS 10 days to decide to contact the authorities? Now here is what I think got Perry and Gross fired. I think during this time frame Perry and Gross made it no secret, at least amongst the IT company's coworkers, that they discovered child porn. I think this is likely. I think it could also have been that they pushed their super and her supers to go to the police or they (Perry and Gross) would themselves. Either way I think Perry and Gross either made this somewhat public or threatened (in a mild sense) to make it public (to the police at least) and this is what ultimately got them fired.
In all honesty I think Collegis and the NYLS would have preferred to sweep this under the rug. I believe this is quite likely why Perry and Gross were fired.
In essence Perry and Gross had minds of their own and weren't "yes men or women" that bowed to their "superior's" whims. If your superiors are morally impaired and have their own agendas, this can be a quick way to terminate a job.
If this was just porn then yes, this would be the best approach IMHO. However this was child porn. I agree with a previous poster. If I found what was undeniably child pornography, I wouldn't bother calling the cops. I'd take the son of a bitch out back and beat the living shit out of him. I can garuntee you he'd never do it again.
I agree and I understand that. I would have loved to have known exactly how fast the semi was going that got my motorcycle front wheel of the ground and wrecked me 2.5 months ago. For things like this BB's are very useful. However the scrary part is how they can be abused. I'm not going to repost what I wrote a few minutes ago in the interest of saving time. I'll give you a link to it though. It's quite possible that it could happen. Hell a couple years ago we'd never believe that we could be held incomunnicado without trial or counsel for a year. Look where we are now. Give an inch and they'll take a mile. If Big Brother could be trusted then these black boxes would be worthwhile. Since we know Big Brother isn't trustworthy, black boxes aren't worth the risk. Unfortunate but true.
BTW, I faired a lot better than you in my wreck. I only lost a litle skin. The rolling at the last part of my wreck rattled my ribs around like I was a Pro-Bowl tackling dummy. It's been 2.5 months now and damned if it still doesn't hurt.
Are you trying to tell me that you NEVER break any of the traffic laws? Bullshit. Even the most careful driver speeds now and again, goes through a light just a little later than they should have, forgets to signal when no one is around, performs a rolling stop on a intersection in rural America at 1AM, or doesn't always put on their seatbelt to make a mad dash to the post office. If you're trying to tell us that you NEVER do any of these then your full of it. Hell even my Grandfather who normally drove 45 would speed on occasion. Sheesh. You act as if it was the end of the world.
Unfortunately you are quite blind to the bigger picture. This week it's 5 seconds. Next week it's a minute. The week after it's an hour. Shortly there after it's a day. Before long the driving history of your entire car is recorded and is admissible as evidence. But wait, there's a catch. Once it's admitted they can use the entire evidence against you in subsequent charges. You have your car for 5 years and finally get a speeding ticket. The cop wirelessly pulls your BB data (it will happen soon enough) as will be required by law when giving you a ticket. A computer processes that data and issues you a ticket for every single time you speeded in the past. Everytime you didn't wear a seatbelt. Every minor infraction of the traffic laws you committed over those 5 years will come back to haunt you. Then it gets even better. Now after these traffic convictions are through the courts your insurance company sues you in civil court, subpoenas the BB data, and then argues that you now owe an a lareg sum of money due the elevated insurances costs you WOULD have received had these tickets been given at the time of the incident. Now many of these things aren't possible at this very moment but we're getting closer to them more and more every day. Do you think this isn't possible? Are you so nieve as to not recognize that if you give them an inch they will take a mile? Oh wait. You're a sheep. Yes, I guess you really are the nieve. Carry on...
This really makes me wonder just how many people will actually be surprised when they receive this letter. I'm not just referring to them being surprised they have an open relay. Instead I'm referring to those that will be surprised they are actually running a mail server. MTAs are (or were at least) installed by default in just about every *nix distribution, including the desktop releases (Irix for example). I wonder how many of these idiots don't even know they are running an MTA.
Oh, and I forgot to mention AppelShareIP. It's an open relay by default. I know many a school district that didn't hire a compotent person to set up their AppleShareIP installations and were then blacklisted from running an open relay.
Oh, and don't forget ALL the slightly older Exchange customers.
Oh shucks, did I forget to mention the older Novell installations? Must have slipped my mind.
Whoops! I almost forgot the Lotus customers. Now that was a pain in the ass.
Let me summarize it this way. If you are a system's administrator of ANY kind then you WILL NOT be running an open relay. If you are then you truly are incompentent and have absolutely no business running any system. I can think of more than a few people from over the years that meet this criteria. Incompetence doesn't appear to be a dieing disease.
that got a 4 on the ACT. I think you get that if you spell 2 of the 3 words in your name right. He went on to welding school. Shortly after trying his hand at that he was stocking shelves at Wal-Mart after hours. I had another classmate that fell asleep during the ACT. He missed one entire section, the reading section. Ha! He went on to a a state Unv and got a degree.
I had the highest ACT in my class. It wasn't even spectacular. 29. 30 on the math and science. I should have taken it again though. The testing conditions weren't very good that day. They were doing the groundwork for some new construction right outside the testing room window. They were doing something to the power too that kept it flickering on and off. Because of this the power was cut to the AC to prevent a condensor burn out; so it was hot. Finally as I pulled into the parking lot at that college I met my soon to be bro-in-law. He told me my mother had called him and asked him to meet me. He was to tell me that my Grandpa had had a heart attack and was on his way to the hospital. They said he was doing fine and that it was a minor one. Still, that puts a damper on your testing experience. I should have retaken it.
Re:the 1999 Tornado killed because it was so huge
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LOL. The F word. I've been to Limon IIRC. Ski group bus stopped there for food and fuel. It was always dark though. If you can judge a town by its gas station then the town should be pretty nice.:)
They already have made one of these deals. It's like a spike strip but is really a mat that you position on the road. IIRC the officer that laid it out waits for the fleeing vehicle to drive over it and then activates the mat. He hits the button right as the car's engine is over the mat and it's jacks up the ignition system. The car dies instantly and rolls to a stop. The problem with any system like this is that 1) it's expensive and 2) it can only be used on vehicles moving slowly. You don't dare use this mat, spike strips, or the pitt maneuver on a vehicle going highway speeds. The car could easily lose control and cause a major accident. You have to do it when they are going slow like when they take a turn of some sorts. Yeah, they've built these gizmos already but they are expensive. Last I heard they were only being tested in the UK. Good idea though. I wonder how much damage (in $$$) this does to the car though. It's relatively easy to destory the computer system in a car. 9 times out of 10 you can do this by hooking jumper cables up backwards (yes, some people don't know how to use them properly. most people don't know which vehicle you should hook them up to first either). Frying the computer system in a car is essentially totaling the car. The replacement parts almost always cost more then the vehicle is worth.:-(
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It's always a possibility. Someday I'm sure they'll find a good way to minimize the damage from the wind itself. I don't know that they'll ever find a feasible way to defend a home from a tornado. It seems to be one of those overwhelming tasks. Minimizing the exposed flat surface areas certainly helps. There is a tower going up in Hong Kong IIRC that will be the world's tallest building once it's completed. They dealt with the wind currents by minimizing the flat surface areas of the building. I would have to say that if a building was made entirely out of reinforced concrete, from the floors to walls and even the roof with no windows and only a slid steel door then I suspect it would be able to withstand a direct hit from a F-4. That's assuming of course that the tornado doesn't send a Ford Excursion threw one of the walls.:) The most unacceptable thing about that is no window. If the wind can get in the structure then it can topple the structure with much greater ease. Take for example a large stick builing like a Morton(tm) building. It's essentially a pole building with a low pitched roof, large doors usually on both ends, metal sided, usually put on a concrete pad. It's a very common metal building. The building is reasonably strong and can hold up against straight-line winds fairly well as long as all the doors and windows are shut. If you open one of the large (garage) doors on one of the ends during a fierce wind then your building is probably lost.
They can already build a very strong home. They don't yet have one that can hold up against a tornado. The least they can do though is build a rock solid storm shelter. It's good to have an emergency brake and air bag even if you don't plan on ever using them.:-)
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I have yet to have a single Maxtor fail on me when bought from a reputable reseller. My only failed Maxtor (and that was a U/160 SCSI drive) came from Computer Giants. As far as I'm concerned they are a failed company. Anyone who buy sfrom them should expect problems. Back on topic, like I said, I've never had a single Maxtor failure. I have however had failed drives from Seagate, Western Digital, IBM, and Conner (oh god don't get me started on Conner). I never had a single Quantum failure before Maxtor bought them or after. As far as I'm concerned Maxtor is top-rate. Their customer service is excellent. I have yet to have a bad experience with Maxtor's CS. Perhaps your incident is fairly isolated. When you get you replacement drives, do they come from Maxtor or do they come from a reseller? Did you record the various lot numbers on the drive to look for a pattern (possibly bad batch which happens every so often)? As far as I'm concerned you can't go wrong with a Maxtor drive.
My only complaint is that they don't make a Windows version. I am a Mac user but unfortunately I'm stuck on a XP box at the moment. Having my favorite text editor would go a long ways towards making this tolerable.
I told you so...
ATM is the worst piece of shit imagineable to put in a LAN. LANE has got to be one of the all-time worst fuckups in networking history. You can't beat stuffing a 1518-byte frame into a 53-byte ATM cell. It's even worse than that. The ATM cell's payload is only 48 bytes. Ooooohhh.... That's got to hurt. There's a reason why ATM is no longer used in LAN environments (or isn't in new installations and is rapidly being removed from old installations). It's great for WANs. It's horrible for LANs.
The network you describe above is a larger version of what I spent the last 2.75 years trying to get fixed at my now former place of employment (/20 and a /22). Broadcasts storms caused eratic network failure and was undoubtedly contributing to piss-poor performance of the LAN. We too had ATM in our core (from long before I started there). They had migrated to switched Ethernet for most of the distribution and access layers. Unfortunately the hubs in the back room found their way back out onto the LAN to add a port here or replace a failed switch there. That certainly didn't help matters. That campus had two netblocks, even though it wasn't by true definition a routed LAN. We had a router on a stick essentially. Did I mention that it was a 2501? Yes, that's right. The 2500 series only have Ethernet interfaces capable of 10half. Oh, and I can't forget one sysadm's insatiable desire to put an old hub between the 2501 and the rest of the LAN so he could sniff? When it was finally recognized that collisions on the hub were a problem the solution cooked up by the sysadms was to buy a $70 NetGear 10/100 hub, so we coudl generate collisions faster. It didn't help the matters any that nodes were assigned IPs by user type, not physical location. This made any attempts to renumber the campus futile without the full support of the management. It would have been far less load on the router if we'd use either DHCP to add a static route to the both netblocks on all the machine or manually enter them. The ATM core, while technically running at 622Mps, was actually limited to 155Mbps by the fact that the ATM nic on in the chassis on either end of the 3 primary links were 155Mbps nics, not 622Mbps. This was also old Fore hardware. I didn't dare touch it for fear that it would break. I performed an upgrade on an ATM module in a new switch. The switch was 14 firmware revisions behind at the time. Unfortunately that broke LANE. The possible fixes was to upgrade all the ATM hardware to LANE-2 capable hardware or downgrade that switch. Any guesses on which I did? Oh hell, I almost forgot to mention. About 80% of the buildings were connected to the backbone via FDDI. Well, I shouldn't say they were connected to the backbone. I should say they were connected to their neighboring buildings. Eventually two of those were connected to one of two POPs. Of course it gets worse. Some of these buildings didn't have a single entry point for the network on the FDDI ring. A number of buildings ran the same FDDI network through every switch in the building, literally. It ran in one floor, all the way u
A friend of mine was bit by this little unwritten rule. Apparently many larger business toss out your resume if they've ever received it before. This is to stop people from carpeting bombing all the open position searches at a given company. What happened to him was that he found a job that really sounded promising. It was a sysadm job with certain security responsibilities that was right up his alley. He applied and never heard back from these folks. He waited a week and called. He was told his resume had been tossed out because the company received it more than once. He told them he only submitted it once. After some digging they realized that someone on the search committee used an online headhunter site (like monster/hotjobs) to search for people that met the job criteria. They printed the resumes out from those matches and included them in the search results. Whoops! When they found that they had two copies of his resume (the one he'd submitted and the one they found in online search) they tossed them both out. He eventually came to realize that most online resume search sites allow you to specify that only employers you approve can view your resume. Usually your name is returned in the search results. They can then request that you approve them to look your resume. He hadn't done that so any employer could view his resume. That's how that little unwritten rule came back to bite him in butt. The position was filled and he went to work for Sprint instead. Poor guy.
One would think, since you don't have to accept mail from any given person, that once you received a dozen or so from this one resume spammer that you could then blacklist him at your border MTA. The blacklisting happens before the DATA is received and therefore you've never technically received the resume. You just reject the connection as soon as you see who's on the other end of the line. You could always tempfail it and use up more of the spammer's resources....
No, you're kidding me, right?
I can't believe this FUD is still out there after 30 years. Contrary to popular and mis-guided belief, an Ethernet will NOT saturate itself at 37% utilization. Period. Anyone that honestly believes that should give the token ring and ATM salesdroids and spin doctors a great big pat on the back because that's exactly what it is: sales doubletalk and spin from vendors of competing technologies. For christ's sake, this myth was laid to rest in September of 1988 . This FUD relies on over-simplifications of assumptions in the theory and inadequacies in the testing procedures.
I can't believe you'd honestly bring it up. Anyone with even a marginal amount of actual networking experience knows this to be FUD. Next time think before you speak about something you know nothing about.
When I was in college my apt was hit by lightning and ultimately fried my TV, VCR, and microwave (the rest was the responsibility of the complex owners). I spent a fair amount of time trying to get my insurance company to pony up for the replacement cost renters insurance I was paying for. Finally the adjuster flat out lied and said that lightning wasn't covered under the policy, even though the policy they sold me showed that it was covered. That guy thought he had a measily college kid he could push around. I filed three complaint reports the next day. The first was with the local BBB. The 2nd was a city police report for theft. The last one was a complaint with my state's insurance commissioner. I xeroxed and mail all three to the insurance company's CEO via certified mail w/ return receipt. The day after the letter was received that local insurance company guy and someone representing the main office was on my door step knocking on my door. The local guy was as nice as can be. He kissed ass like you wouldn't believe. He was so nice is was sickening. They had a letter from the company that apologized for the "misunderstanding" and a check for twice the full amount ($1500 total). They said the excess was for my trouble in resolving the matter. They both apologized half a dozen times each. It was sickening. Still, I was pissed as hell; even now it still irks me. They asked what I'd be doing with the complaints I'd filed. I told them I'm drop the police complaint the next day and that I'd call the insurance commissioner's office and BBB office and report that the matter had been resolved to my satisfaction. They seemed relieved. As they were leaving they said something to the effect of "thank you for your business. We hope to do business with you again in the future" or something like that. From my doorstep I told them that wasn't neccessary. I told them to terminate my policy when the returned to the office and to send my a pro-rated refund for the remainder of the policy coverage. I then shut the door and kissed the check. :)
The police report probably shouldn't have been allowed to be filed. I really don't know if what they did would have counted as theft. The desk Sgt really didn't seem to give a damn. He just handed me the form to fill out and then watched me sign it when I was done. That was it really. When I wrote to the BBB and Insurance Commissioner's office I requested that they keep the complaint on file for reference in case they received future complaints.
Back to the topic of this reply, a Segway would most likely be covered because it's technically not a motorvehicle. It would be viewed the same as a motorized scooter.
This is not about God. Keep your religious views out of the discussion if you don't mind.
If I'd read on /. today that Washington state passed a law that minors couldn't buy violent videos just like someone under 17 can't view an R-rated movie, there would have undoubtedly been outcry from whiny little /. bitches. After a short amount of time to let the modding process work, we would have seen the more reasonable and non-kneejerk comments shining through the muddle bantering of the children that are on /. Among those comments would have been my own. If I saw such a law get passed then I would look at it as a Good Thing(tm). There isn't any reason a minor should be playing a violent game. From the perspective of a parent (which I am not yet) I wouldn't let me children view an R-rated movie until I thought they were mature enough to understand it, implying that I'd taught them the differences between right anfd wrong, fiction and real life well enough to to keep their views from becoming distorted by fiction or make believe. I would have been ok with that kind of law. I still wouldn't want the government to tell me how to be a parent though. They're doing too much of that as it is. And I still have reservations about how this affects on our 1st Amendment rights. It does and it doesn't. If it's limited to minors then I'm ok with it. Alcohol is limited to minors. Is drinking alcohol a form of protected speech? Minors having sex is highly regulated. Can't sex be a form of protected speech? We already say that minors can't view R-rated movies without parent approval. I don't really have a problem with a law that says minors can't purchase M-rated video games. That puts the decision to buy a copy of GTA III for little Johnny into the hands of his parents, who after all should know best if he's mature enough to handle it. Shouldn't they?
However that's not what I read this morning on /.. Instead I read that some bureaucrat in the state of Washington signed an patently unconstitutional bill into law in an attempt to buy the conservative vote for the next election. It's obvious as hell what his real intentions are. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure this out. He's a politician pure and simple. All politicians have their own agendas. Many state employees in general have their own agendas. Deciphering their actions to determine what their real agendas are is the real change. In many cases it's not that hard. Frequently it's obvious as hell. This is one of those cases.
Ideally we shouldn't need a law like this or even the own I day-dreamed about at the beginning my post. Ideally stores that sell games and videos that are meant for a mature audience would regulate themselves with store policies. Ideally parents would step up to the plate and take responsiblity for their children like the used to. We don't need laws like these in an ideal society. Of course we don't live in that ideal society. Stores will do anything to make a buck. If a 9-year old walked up to the checkout counter in Wal-Mart with a jumbo pack of ribbed condoms, I'd bet you $100 that the woman at the checkout would process the sale and send the 9-year old on his or her way. Parents nowadays are the most lazy sons of bitches in recorded history. Half the time they don't know where their children are or who their with. They don't know how they are doing in school. Hell they don't even know the names of their school teachers and would most likely get lost walking around in their school because they've never set foot in it! Society today is flawed. Laws aren't the answer though. Better parents is the answer.
Why was this modded down? It was very factful. The guy's name is Alan Ralsky, not Alan Ralksky.
...because your own DNA is 99.9% just like the person sitting next to you, and the person sitting next to them, and the person next to them, and so on and so forth. Human DNA is 99.9% like everyone else's and that takes into account race adn gender. I saw that on a Discovery special that used genetic diversification to show where the one true Eve was. southern Africa. That's right. According to genetic diversification we all originated from southern Africa. Interesting...
Technically every home owners policy I've ever seen would cover this, at least to a certain dollar amount. It would cover your lawn mower sitting out back and it would cover your Segway joking secured with a bicycle chain.
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Something that no one has done is put the chain of events in a complete timeline. When was the super notified? When did the super notify their boss? And their boss? When was the NYLS notified? When were the police actually contacted? Perry and Gross discovered the material on June 3. Their super told them on June 13 that she'd contacted the police. Did it really take the super, her supers, and the NYLS 10 days to decide to contact the authorities? Now here is what I think got Perry and Gross fired. I think during this time frame Perry and Gross made it no secret, at least amongst the IT company's coworkers, that they discovered child porn. I think this is likely. I think it could also have been that they pushed their super and her supers to go to the police or they (Perry and Gross) would themselves. Either way I think Perry and Gross either made this somewhat public or threatened (in a mild sense) to make it public (to the police at least) and this is what ultimately got them fired.
In all honesty I think Collegis and the NYLS would have preferred to sweep this under the rug. I believe this is quite likely why Perry and Gross were fired.
In essence Perry and Gross had minds of their own and weren't "yes men or women" that bowed to their "superior's" whims. If your superiors are morally impaired and have their own agendas, this can be a quick way to terminate a job.
If this was just porn then yes, this would be the best approach IMHO. However this was child porn. I agree with a previous poster. If I found what was undeniably child pornography, I wouldn't bother calling the cops. I'd take the son of a bitch out back and beat the living shit out of him. I can garuntee you he'd never do it again.
BTW, I faired a lot better than you in my wreck. I only lost a litle skin. The rolling at the last part of my wreck rattled my ribs around like I was a Pro-Bowl tackling dummy. It's been 2.5 months now and damned if it still doesn't hurt.
Are you trying to tell me that you NEVER break any of the traffic laws? Bullshit. Even the most careful driver speeds now and again, goes through a light just a little later than they should have, forgets to signal when no one is around, performs a rolling stop on a intersection in rural America at 1AM, or doesn't always put on their seatbelt to make a mad dash to the post office. If you're trying to tell us that you NEVER do any of these then your full of it. Hell even my Grandfather who normally drove 45 would speed on occasion. Sheesh. You act as if it was the end of the world.
Unfortunately you are quite blind to the bigger picture. This week it's 5 seconds. Next week it's a minute. The week after it's an hour. Shortly there after it's a day. Before long the driving history of your entire car is recorded and is admissible as evidence. But wait, there's a catch. Once it's admitted they can use the entire evidence against you in subsequent charges. You have your car for 5 years and finally get a speeding ticket. The cop wirelessly pulls your BB data (it will happen soon enough) as will be required by law when giving you a ticket. A computer processes that data and issues you a ticket for every single time you speeded in the past. Everytime you didn't wear a seatbelt. Every minor infraction of the traffic laws you committed over those 5 years will come back to haunt you. Then it gets even better. Now after these traffic convictions are through the courts your insurance company sues you in civil court, subpoenas the BB data, and then argues that you now owe an a lareg sum of money due the elevated insurances costs you WOULD have received had these tickets been given at the time of the incident. Now many of these things aren't possible at this very moment but we're getting closer to them more and more every day. Do you think this isn't possible? Are you so nieve as to not recognize that if you give them an inch they will take a mile? Oh wait. You're a sheep. Yes, I guess you really are the nieve. Carry on...
Oh, and I forgot to mention AppelShareIP. It's an open relay by default. I know many a school district that didn't hire a compotent person to set up their AppleShareIP installations and were then blacklisted from running an open relay.
Oh, and don't forget ALL the slightly older Exchange customers.
Oh shucks, did I forget to mention the older Novell installations? Must have slipped my mind.
Whoops! I almost forgot the Lotus customers. Now that was a pain in the ass.
Let me summarize it this way. If you are a system's administrator of ANY kind then you WILL NOT be running an open relay. If you are then you truly are incompentent and have absolutely no business running any system. I can think of more than a few people from over the years that meet this criteria. Incompetence doesn't appear to be a dieing disease.
I had the highest ACT in my class. It wasn't even spectacular. 29. 30 on the math and science. I should have taken it again though. The testing conditions weren't very good that day. They were doing the groundwork for some new construction right outside the testing room window. They were doing something to the power too that kept it flickering on and off. Because of this the power was cut to the AC to prevent a condensor burn out; so it was hot. Finally as I pulled into the parking lot at that college I met my soon to be bro-in-law. He told me my mother had called him and asked him to meet me. He was to tell me that my Grandpa had had a heart attack and was on his way to the hospital. They said he was doing fine and that it was a minor one. Still, that puts a damper on your testing experience. I should have retaken it.
LOL. The F word. I've been to Limon IIRC. Ski group bus stopped there for food and fuel. It was always dark though. If you can judge a town by its gas station then the town should be pretty nice. :)
They already have made one of these deals. It's like a spike strip but is really a mat that you position on the road. IIRC the officer that laid it out waits for the fleeing vehicle to drive over it and then activates the mat. He hits the button right as the car's engine is over the mat and it's jacks up the ignition system. The car dies instantly and rolls to a stop. The problem with any system like this is that 1) it's expensive and 2) it can only be used on vehicles moving slowly. You don't dare use this mat, spike strips, or the pitt maneuver on a vehicle going highway speeds. The car could easily lose control and cause a major accident. You have to do it when they are going slow like when they take a turn of some sorts. Yeah, they've built these gizmos already but they are expensive. Last I heard they were only being tested in the UK. Good idea though. I wonder how much damage (in $$$) this does to the car though. It's relatively easy to destory the computer system in a car. 9 times out of 10 you can do this by hooking jumper cables up backwards (yes, some people don't know how to use them properly. most people don't know which vehicle you should hook them up to first either). Frying the computer system in a car is essentially totaling the car. The replacement parts almost always cost more then the vehicle is worth. :-(
They can already build a very strong home. They don't yet have one that can hold up against a tornado. The least they can do though is build a rock solid storm shelter. It's good to have an emergency brake and air bag even if you don't plan on ever using them. :-)