Our main wiring closet looks a little like the 'not so bad examples' of wiring closets in those pictures - though nothing like the more extreme ones.
The problem is, once the thing gets into that kind of mess, you rarely have the chance to bring down the entire network to repatch all the cables and cable tie them into some kind of order.
Not only that, but if you have loads of trunks and VLAN's configured, putting it all back in the right order can be a total ballache!
I have come across this before on a load of D-Link network ISA cards a couple of years ago.
The most frustrating thing was that my Cisco CCNA tutor never believed me when I told him we had 2 NIC's with duplicate MAC addresses.. (I know cause it was freaking my DHCP server out!) and he still uses it as a joke to this day.. despite me maintaining that duplicate MAC's do happen.
I am sure that everyone who has used Linux has at some point or other made the mistake of putting a blank line at the top of the/etc/passwd file - then when you try and login or pretty much do anything on a console, you get that message:
"You do not exist - go away."
I had hit happen once or twice when I was new to Linux.. it can be a little concerning:)
I remeber when BT were first flexing their 'Broadband' initiative. I live in one of the cities which they actually advertised specifically as being broadband enabled, yet my exchange was not. They did practically the whole city, yet overlooked my exchange completely - and every time they gave me an estimate date for getting the exchange done, it came and went without any news. How the hell can they specifically use the name of my city in advertising, as a 'broadband enabled city' when it actually wasn't?
After waiting a YEAR AND A HALF on dialup, ntl: began their huge cable rollout.. they dug up our street and posted leaflets about their service. So I took up broadband with them and I couldn't be happier! I have been running their 512k service for over a year and it has only ever been down 3 times.
Screw BT.. they can never get anything right, and they are responsible for the shameful state of the UK's internet ability - they should have been busted up by the government a long time ago:|
..though why someone would want to use WMA is beyond me.
Well.. without even needing to think about it, I can tell you one huge great reason why this player supports WMA over say OGG.. think of all the new users of Windows XP (of which there must be millions) all discovering the new features, which includes the ability to rip music from a CD and store it locally on their machine. What format does Windows Media Player encode in by default unless you buy an 'Addon' pack from people like Cyberlink? Bingo.. WMA.. and as most people use their system 'as is' without changing settings, chances are there are a fair few users with a harddrive full of WMA encoded tunes.
I dont mean this as any direspect for those that lost friends or family on Sept 11th.. but that is a stupid comment to make.
What kind of damage do you think someone would achieve by crashing a Microlyte or single seater aircraft into the side of a building? I think it would be more like the effect of a bug hitting your windscreen at 50mph - bounce or splat! Its not like everyone will be out flying 747's or huge carrier helicopters.
Diesel cars used to be hot in the early 80's because diesel was so much cheaper than unleaded or regular. Economics screwed that up because diesel cars got to be big enough that regular gas stations (not just truck stops) started to carry diesel. That increased the gas stations cost, and thus raised the price of diesel to the same or higher levels compared to unleaded.
Or in the case of the UK (where we are taxed 80% on our gasoline), our government made a big deal about getting people to switch to diesel as it was taxed considerably less than regular gasoline, and was cleaner for the environment. Then, as soon as a significant quantity of people had realised the money they could save by switching over, the government inflated the tax so that it now costs MORE per gallon than regular.
Well.. maybe its just common sense talking but thats a pretty bad way to abuse your body. For christs sake - what ever happened to going to bed and coming back to the game the next day? Its not like its not gonna be there when you come back.
I dont think I have ever stayed up for more than 24 hours - I must have come close though. Old LAN parties years ago playing Carmageddon and Quake - sure they were great fun but come about 6am it really was time to knock it on the head. Taking drugs and drinking a tonne of caffeine really isnt a good idea.. just storing up some nasty problems for later in life. Your body has to make that lost time up somewhere.
Well I can't understand his point of view for a few different reasons..
Firstly, if he was doing his job properly, it wouldnt matter what virus you tried to introduce on the network - he should be keeping up to date with his antivirus, especially server side! We use Norton Antivirus (their latest corporate versions are really quite good.. and the costs are very reasonable) and it does the job very well..
Secondly.. it sounds like the guy has no knowledge of anything other than Windows anyway.. so how would a Mac virus (assuming you contracted one) cause a problem with his Windows systems?
Pfft.. we generally dont have a problem with people bringing in their laptops in from home. The only problem is when they come to us to configure it for our network.. "What do you mean.. I need a 'PCM..er..PMCCI.. er, whats a network card?'"
Hm.. well you have to bear in mind that on challenges such as basic games and 'the 100m sprint' there only needs to exist a certain number of rules for a machine to compete / win. But when you talk about things like AI and speech interfaces.. well thats a whole new ballgame. Speech took mankind thousands of years to develop - and even now I would say we dont use it as effectively as we could.
And the less said about AI the better.. I dont think you can really apply rules and reasons to intelligence!
I thought the exact same thing.. we have a Catalyst 6509 and I know after we loaded that thing up with a bunch of blades, it had eaten up a fair chunk of the years IT budget. As you say, must be a rich business!
Try out FreeSSL.com - they used to give fully signed SSL certificates away that lasted for three months.. I read that they were planning to offer free 'year' certificates.
They also currently offer a ChainedSSL certificate at a cost of $25 per year...
I completely agree.. this is a very good example of what is wrong with the patent process these days.
This should have been bought out into the open long before eBay became they company that they are.. and sheesh, I cant see him making up some bullshit story about having never heard of eBay until recently or something. eBay are in so many films, on so many advert banners.. everyone knows about eBay.
If this is the advert that I *think* it is, then this kind of marketing is doing them no favours. Trying to take cheap shots at Microsoft by using stupid adverts would not convince me that their product is better.. why the hell is it that companies insist on this marketing strategy? I personally would be embarrased to see this advert running on television.
I posted a similar rant about the more 'extreme' Linux users who go on free software marches, claim Microsoft are evil, and berate all Windows users are not doing Linux's image any favours - serious marketing is what you need to push the product.
Just so you know.. maybe I didn't phrase what I wrote exactly how I wanted it.
I already know that Linux is a great solution - I use it for every server I setup where I work.. I just mean that it would be nice to see some official figures of Windows getting a beating;)
As many other people have pointed out, the system configuration was vastly different despite being 'similar' - yes, I want to see Linux out perform Windows but I would rather see it run on identical systems! When benchmarks are weighted like this, it just makes Linux look like the inferior product which is not the kind of image it should be getting for itself!
Even though I build my own PC's and download Linux, I support what Sun has done. If I was looking to buy a 2nd system to run Linux on I would buy one of these for a number of reasons:
a) Sun cases look cool.. and trying to find decent looking and inexpensive cases in the UK seems to be fruitless.
b) The quality of the kit should be pretty good.. I have a Sun Blade 100 and that system is very well built and reliable.
c) Even though Sun are a big company I still appreciate what they do for individual users - so I'd feel like I was helping a bit to keep them afloat.
A very good idea.. either that, or if a company like Amazon had a label which worked in a similar way and the CD's were sold through Amazon's site - probably much bigger profits for both Amazon AND the artist, and lower prices for the consumer.
Dont quite know where you get your hardware from.. but looking at Overclockers UK - an Athlon XP2200+ Thoroughbred cpu is the same price as a Pentium 4 1.8GHz..
Yes, AMD/VIA type combo's were flaky in the past.. especially when Athlon first hit the streets. But stability is no longer an issue - even my old KT7/1.2GHz Athlon run perfectly. No lockups.
And some of the latest VIA based boards offer some stunning features.. the legacy free AT7 for example.
Putting the hurt on AMD?
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Well if I was going to put together a fast desktop system, I can tell you it wouldn't be built around an Intel Pentium 4 Processor (insert jingle here) - as far as I am concered, Intel price their CPU's so far off the scale it isn't true. Add to that the fact that AMD's processors no longer have issues with stability or floating point speed (like the old K6/K6-2) - I cant see any reason to buy such a top of the line Intel chip unless you were absolutely *desperate* to eek every last drip of performance out of a system. But at 2.6GHz and beyond, people aren't really counting - right?
The thing that bugs me is still the stigma attached to AMD.. its similar to the old 'No one got fired for buying IBM' - it is the same with Microsoft, and the same with Intel. People still avoid AMD because they consider them to be inferior..
I think the internet has become quite an interesting beast today.. it certainly looks a lot different to the internet I used for the first time in 1996.
The best thing for me about the internet as it is today, is that it has matured a little. It has given the chance for the big companies with a great product (Google for example), and companies with great business models and online stores the chance to get going and become popular. I was really surprised on a recent visit to Yahoo auctions to discover they had shut up shop and advised former Yahoo auctioneers to visit eBay.
Of course the downside to the internet.. now that the technology has matured it has made higher power technology available to people who only want to abuse it. Carding, hacking, and DoSing all seem to be pretty rife today. And not to mention the spam.. thankfully I only get a small amount to my few different email addresses, but I would much rather get none - I *hate* spam!
My other hate about the internet are huge corporations who feel they can get in and police the internet according to their own standards. Companies like Disney who have forged 'relationships' with government members, who barely have any grasp on the technology they want to censor.
I dunno.. I think the net needs some kind of revival. I think I am ready for the next big thing.
Well this really is quite a cool piece of technology - the only problem is, as they state later in the article, its a solution to a single problem. This armour will only prevent against RPG's and bullets.. you hit a mine or go against something a little nastier, and it will not be able to protect you.
You would have to be pretty certain of the battle you were about to go into before you delployed vehicles carrying this specific type of armour?
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Our main wiring closet looks a little like the 'not so bad examples' of wiring closets in those pictures - though nothing like the more extreme ones.
The problem is, once the thing gets into that kind of mess, you rarely have the chance to bring down the entire network to repatch all the cables and cable tie them into some kind of order.
Not only that, but if you have loads of trunks and VLAN's configured, putting it all back in the right order can be a total ballache!
I have come across this before on a load of D-Link network ISA cards a couple of years ago.
The most frustrating thing was that my Cisco CCNA tutor never believed me when I told him we had 2 NIC's with duplicate MAC addresses.. (I know cause it was freaking my DHCP server out!) and he still uses it as a joke to this day.. despite me maintaining that duplicate MAC's do happen.
*mutter*
I am sure that everyone who has used Linux has at some point or other made the mistake of putting a blank line at the top of the /etc/passwd file - then when you try and login or pretty much do anything on a console, you get that message :
:)
"You do not exist - go away."
I had hit happen once or twice when I was new to Linux.. it can be a little concerning
This is very true.
:|
I remeber when BT were first flexing their 'Broadband' initiative. I live in one of the cities which they actually advertised specifically as being broadband enabled, yet my exchange was not. They did practically the whole city, yet overlooked my exchange completely - and every time they gave me an estimate date for getting the exchange done, it came and went without any news. How the hell can they specifically use the name of my city in advertising, as a 'broadband enabled city' when it actually wasn't?
After waiting a YEAR AND A HALF on dialup, ntl: began their huge cable rollout.. they dug up our street and posted leaflets about their service. So I took up broadband with them and I couldn't be happier! I have been running their 512k service for over a year and it has only ever been down 3 times.
Screw BT.. they can never get anything right, and they are responsible for the shameful state of the UK's internet ability - they should have been busted up by the government a long time ago
..though why someone would want to use WMA is beyond me.
Well.. without even needing to think about it, I can tell you one huge great reason why this player supports WMA over say OGG.. think of all the new users of Windows XP (of which there must be millions) all discovering the new features, which includes the ability to rip music from a CD and store it locally on their machine. What format does Windows Media Player encode in by default unless you buy an 'Addon' pack from people like Cyberlink? Bingo.. WMA.. and as most people use their system 'as is' without changing settings, chances are there are a fair few users with a harddrive full of WMA encoded tunes.
Bear in mind that Donald Becker works for Nasa.. I think given the choice of the two, Nasa would be more exciting to work for.
:)
Well.. as long as they got Steve Ballmer to work there.. Scientists, scientists, scientists!!
I dont mean this as any direspect for those that lost friends or family on Sept 11th.. but that is a stupid comment to make.
What kind of damage do you think someone would achieve by crashing a Microlyte or single seater aircraft into the side of a building? I think it would be more like the effect of a bug hitting your windscreen at 50mph - bounce or splat! Its not like everyone will be out flying 747's or huge carrier helicopters.
Sheesh.
Diesel cars used to be hot in the early 80's because diesel was so much cheaper than unleaded or regular. Economics screwed that up because diesel cars got to be big enough that regular gas stations (not just truck stops) started to carry diesel. That increased the gas stations cost, and thus raised the price of diesel to the same or higher levels compared to unleaded.
Or in the case of the UK (where we are taxed 80% on our gasoline), our government made a big deal about getting people to switch to diesel as it was taxed considerably less than regular gasoline, and was cleaner for the environment. Then, as soon as a significant quantity of people had realised the money they could save by switching over, the government inflated the tax so that it now costs MORE per gallon than regular.
I love this country!
Well.. maybe its just common sense talking but thats a pretty bad way to abuse your body. For christs sake - what ever happened to going to bed and coming back to the game the next day? Its not like its not gonna be there when you come back.
I dont think I have ever stayed up for more than 24 hours - I must have come close though. Old LAN parties years ago playing Carmageddon and Quake - sure they were great fun but come about 6am it really was time to knock it on the head. Taking drugs and drinking a tonne of caffeine really isnt a good idea.. just storing up some nasty problems for later in life. Your body has to make that lost time up somewhere.
Well I can't understand his point of view for a few different reasons..
Firstly, if he was doing his job properly, it wouldnt matter what virus you tried to introduce on the network - he should be keeping up to date with his antivirus, especially server side! We use Norton Antivirus (their latest corporate versions are really quite good.. and the costs are very reasonable) and it does the job very well..
Secondly.. it sounds like the guy has no knowledge of anything other than Windows anyway.. so how would a Mac virus (assuming you contracted one) cause a problem with his Windows systems?
Pfft.. we generally dont have a problem with people bringing in their laptops in from home. The only problem is when they come to us to configure it for our network.. "What do you mean.. I need a 'PCM..er..PMCCI.. er, whats a network card?'"
Hm.. well you have to bear in mind that on challenges such as basic games and 'the 100m sprint' there only needs to exist a certain number of rules for a machine to compete / win. But when you talk about things like AI and speech interfaces.. well thats a whole new ballgame. Speech took mankind thousands of years to develop - and even now I would say we dont use it as effectively as we could.
And the less said about AI the better.. I dont think you can really apply rules and reasons to intelligence!
I thought the exact same thing.. we have a Catalyst 6509 and I know after we loaded that thing up with a bunch of blades, it had eaten up a fair chunk of the years IT budget. As you say, must be a rich business!
Try out FreeSSL.com - they used to give fully signed SSL certificates away that lasted for three months.. I read that they were planning to offer free 'year' certificates.
They also currently offer a ChainedSSL certificate at a cost of $25 per year...
I completely agree.. this is a very good example of what is wrong with the patent process these days.
This should have been bought out into the open long before eBay became they company that they are.. and sheesh, I cant see him making up some bullshit story about having never heard of eBay until recently or something. eBay are in so many films, on so many advert banners.. everyone knows about eBay.
..in a previous post.. I think its time to take that back! I hope N1 flops! I value my job :)
If this is the advert that I *think* it is, then this kind of marketing is doing them no favours. Trying to take cheap shots at Microsoft by using stupid adverts would not convince me that their product is better.. why the hell is it that companies insist on this marketing strategy? I personally would be embarrased to see this advert running on television.
I posted a similar rant about the more 'extreme' Linux users who go on free software marches, claim Microsoft are evil, and berate all Windows users are not doing Linux's image any favours - serious marketing is what you need to push the product.
Just so you know.. maybe I didn't phrase what I wrote exactly how I wanted it.
;)
I already know that Linux is a great solution - I use it for every server I setup where I work.. I just mean that it would be nice to see some official figures of Windows getting a beating
As many other people have pointed out, the system configuration was vastly different despite being 'similar' - yes, I want to see Linux out perform Windows but I would rather see it run on identical systems! When benchmarks are weighted like this, it just makes Linux look like the inferior product which is not the kind of image it should be getting for itself!
Even though I build my own PC's and download Linux, I support what Sun has done. If I was looking to buy a 2nd system to run Linux on I would buy one of these for a number of reasons :
a) Sun cases look cool.. and trying to find decent looking and inexpensive cases in the UK seems to be fruitless.
b) The quality of the kit should be pretty good.. I have a Sun Blade 100 and that system is very well built and reliable.
c) Even though Sun are a big company I still appreciate what they do for individual users - so I'd feel like I was helping a bit to keep them afloat.
..hell, at that price, I'll launch 3! :)
A very good idea.. either that, or if a company like Amazon had a label which worked in a similar way and the CD's were sold through Amazon's site - probably much bigger profits for both Amazon AND the artist, and lower prices for the consumer.
Dont quite know where you get your hardware from.. but looking at Overclockers UK - an Athlon XP2200+ Thoroughbred cpu is the same price as a Pentium 4 1.8GHz..
Yes, AMD/VIA type combo's were flaky in the past.. especially when Athlon first hit the streets. But stability is no longer an issue - even my old KT7/1.2GHz Athlon run perfectly. No lockups.
And some of the latest VIA based boards offer some stunning features.. the legacy free AT7 for example.
Well if I was going to put together a fast desktop system, I can tell you it wouldn't be built around an Intel Pentium 4 Processor (insert jingle here) - as far as I am concered, Intel price their CPU's so far off the scale it isn't true. Add to that the fact that AMD's processors no longer have issues with stability or floating point speed (like the old K6/K6-2) - I cant see any reason to buy such a top of the line Intel chip unless you were absolutely *desperate* to eek every last drip of performance out of a system. But at 2.6GHz and beyond, people aren't really counting - right?
The thing that bugs me is still the stigma attached to AMD.. its similar to the old 'No one got fired for buying IBM' - it is the same with Microsoft, and the same with Intel. People still avoid AMD because they consider them to be inferior..
I think the internet has become quite an interesting beast today.. it certainly looks a lot different to the internet I used for the first time in 1996.
The best thing for me about the internet as it is today, is that it has matured a little. It has given the chance for the big companies with a great product (Google for example), and companies with great business models and online stores the chance to get going and become popular. I was really surprised on a recent visit to Yahoo auctions to discover they had shut up shop and advised former Yahoo auctioneers to visit eBay.
Of course the downside to the internet.. now that the technology has matured it has made higher power technology available to people who only want to abuse it. Carding, hacking, and DoSing all seem to be pretty rife today. And not to mention the spam.. thankfully I only get a small amount to my few different email addresses, but I would much rather get none - I *hate* spam!
My other hate about the internet are huge corporations who feel they can get in and police the internet according to their own standards. Companies like Disney who have forged 'relationships' with government members, who barely have any grasp on the technology they want to censor.
I dunno.. I think the net needs some kind of revival. I think I am ready for the next big thing.
Well this really is quite a cool piece of technology - the only problem is, as they state later in the article, its a solution to a single problem. This armour will only prevent against RPG's and bullets.. you hit a mine or go against something a little nastier, and it will not be able to protect you.
You would have to be pretty certain of the battle you were about to go into before you delployed vehicles carrying this specific type of armour?