This is true, we have been doing some testing of the various DDoS solutions, (and quite frankly the Cisco/Riverhead did the worst out of any we tested). But CPU use on these devices never caused us any alarm. The battle of DOS Mitigation is 2 staged, and you need to be in conversation with your ISP, so that their backbone guys can filter out traffic once it reaches a certain level. The purpose of the mitigation device is to detect anomalous traffic, and keep your site up while your ISP tracks down the largest offenders and block them at the backbone level. Most ISP's will do this, as if I'm seeing a GBit attack coming at one of my customers, this is going to effect all of the customers within the IDC.
I completely concurr, I am a graphics designer, and Photoshop/Illustrator are the only things keeping me from switching over to Linux completely (and my promise RAID card, but that's a different story). GIMP, while a decent tool, is not even close to the quality of Photoshop, and, quite frankly may never be. If it's a minor change I don't mind using GIMP too effectively reduce my need for a reboot, but if it is something major, or even initial design sketching, Photoshop is neccessary.
As both a business and cellular subscriber of TELUS I can say that this switch has not been seemless. Over the past too weeks there have been a large amount of issues with their networks. For instance for 3 days in a row for the first 3 hours of our business day our phones could not dial out, or recieve calls. We were not notified that there was a shortage, and were baffled, thinking it was our Meridian storage. Their cellular service has been spotty at best, again with the lack of ability to dial out or recieve calls (fast busy, no voice mail). This has been a severe inconvenience too me. There are other local providers who have been providing great VOiP service in our center for one, that is clearly a better choice. Telus has also been offering their own brand of VOIP service for residential and business customers. This is not a new endeavor for Canadian telecom, but it is a good switch. Perhaps soon we may see free telecom w/the purchase of internet services (monopoly what?). The question is, when are major corporations going to go with a free software VOIP service (H.323) over expensive proprietary Nortel software.
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This is true, we have been doing some testing of the various DDoS solutions, (and quite frankly the Cisco/Riverhead did the worst out of any we tested). But CPU use on these devices never caused us any alarm. The battle of DOS Mitigation is 2 staged, and you need to be in conversation with your ISP, so that their backbone guys can filter out traffic once it reaches a certain level. The purpose of the mitigation device is to detect anomalous traffic, and keep your site up while your ISP tracks down the largest offenders and block them at the backbone level. Most ISP's will do this, as if I'm seeing a GBit attack coming at one of my customers, this is going to effect all of the customers within the IDC.
The real question is what is going to make it get too 300 degrees, and hol long the oderless/flavorless feat will actually really last.
I completely concurr, I am a graphics designer, and Photoshop/Illustrator are the only things keeping me from switching over to Linux completely (and my promise RAID card, but that's a different story). GIMP, while a decent tool, is not even close to the quality of Photoshop, and, quite frankly may never be. If it's a minor change I don't mind using GIMP too effectively reduce my need for a reboot, but if it is something major, or even initial design sketching, Photoshop is neccessary.
Or it could represent the "fix" of news that us /.'ers require, similar to that of a.. say.. heroin addict?
As both a business and cellular subscriber of TELUS I can say that this switch has not been seemless. Over the past too weeks there have been a large amount of issues with their networks. For instance for 3 days in a row for the first 3 hours of our business day our phones could not dial out, or recieve calls. We were not notified that there was a shortage, and were baffled, thinking it was our Meridian storage. Their cellular service has been spotty at best, again with the lack of ability to dial out or recieve calls (fast busy, no voice mail). This has been a severe inconvenience too me. There are other local providers who have been providing great VOiP service in our center for one, that is clearly a better choice. Telus has also been offering their own brand of VOIP service for residential and business customers. This is not a new endeavor for Canadian telecom, but it is a good switch. Perhaps soon we may see free telecom w/the purchase of internet services (monopoly what?). The question is, when are major corporations going to go with a free software VOIP service (H.323) over expensive proprietary Nortel software.