Used FedEx to ship it from Philly to Chicago... Long story short, the entire side got dented in, 1 power supply + 4 linecards ruined, as well as the chassis.
We shipped it in the Cisco original packing (pallet + box)... When we put in a claim with FedEx, they told us "The packaging was insufficient - it's your fault"... So, our legal dept called FedEx as if they were a customer and asked "What would be the appropriate way to ship a Cisco Catalyst 6500 switch?" - after they consulted their little guide, they said "In the manufacturers original packaging".
Well, as much as lawyers suck, Elana does have a point...
Sure, a lawyer may register "ISueForYou.pro", but John Smith, Attorney at Law is smart enough not to register JohnStevensLaw.pro with the hope that someone will buy it - they'd know it wouldn't be worth the litigation to lose to someone who owned the trademark.
You're correct, there is no such thing as "I agree to agree", there is however "I agree to abide by the terms of the EULA (as similar printed on software packages), and when I read that EULA if I don't agree, I can return it"... A hassle, yes (I'm not defending EULA's or software manufacturers *at all*, but legally possible.
In many states a verbal contract is just as binding as a signed one... I'm sure some screwy lawyer somewhere would be able to apply that to, say, a credit card purchase?
Especially since most software warns of licensing agreements somewhere on the outside of the package (Win2K, for one).
Does anyone else think that article is written like one of those "Everyone hates the Mayor" newspaper articles in Sim City?:-) "Betty Stevens says it took her over 8 hours to get to work today! She might as well not work at all!"
Verizon in PA (and I know they've had this for awhile in TX..) has "Call Intercept" now, where if the caller ID is blocked or Out Of Area, it rings straight to this automated-attendant type thing..
They can either hit a 4 digit PIN (say it's a family member...) and it will ring straight through to your phone... Or, they can record their name and you will get a stuttered ring on your phone and when you answer, the persons name plays and you can either accept the call, reject it with a "Remove me from your list, I don't like telemarketers", or send it to your home voicemail service (if you subscribe)...
If it's a predictive/autodialer, they never get through because it requires at least one touch-tone be pressed and the caller actually say something.
Where I used to get 3-5 telemarketing or dead air calls a day, I now get none... Nifty, and well worth the $4.00. Works better than the Telezapper IMO.
Yeah, we also got a pretty letter from the inside wiring contractor in one of our buildings telling us that they're filing a mechanics lien against Yipes for not paying them the ~$10k they owe them for inside wiring work...
They also threatened to pull the fiber that runs between their cabinet and our data center if we didn't pay for the crossconnect that Yipes was supposed to pay for...
We're hoping they dig themselves out of this one, and the excuse we've gotten from them seems plausible - and we have sufficient backup connectivity (both internet and MAN) anyways.
We have no customers that come to the office (except on extremely rare occasions, say, ~2 times a year)... There's no reason to dress up except to see each other looking pretty.
Last thing I want to do is worry about fucking up my suit while I'm trying to pull a cable through the data center raised floor.
In light of the (company name erased) successful efforts to expandthe customer business, effective, April 15, 2002, (company name erased) dress code will go from business casual attire to business formal. This change in policy is attributed to the increased number of customers (both current and potential) who will be guests in (company name erased) offices around the world. Formal business attire will include business suits, appropriate footwear and ties for men. Jeans and khakis will no longer be considered appropriate attire. We understand that this is a drastic change in our current policy, but appreciate your cooperation and understanding as (company name erased) continues to adapt to the changing business environment.
Not so much as the nameplate. When that laptop's screen fries prematurely, if I buy my laptop from Joe Schmoe's laptop company, there's no guarantee that he's going to be around to fix it - and they aren't very cheap (or practical) to replace yourself, unlike desktop PC's.
You are, however, paying for the nameplate if you're buying a basic PC and can buy the same (warranted) parts elsewhere... But sometimes it's cheaper to just let Dell worry about the individual part warranties and be able to just get an entire system overnighted to you in the event of a failure.
It looked kinda cool, but I was very concerned when I walked into a near-empty theater on a Saturday night. I went about brushing that off, realizing that the main-stream America isn't into Sci-Fi films.
Turns out main stream America just isn't into films that stink. They took a long sordid tale and jammed it into almost exactly an hour and a half, and left the parts that should have been in there out and vice versa... Even for a Sci-Fi movie, the plot made absolutely no sense into the second half of the movie.
The acting was pretty good, Guy Pearce seemed like he might've been a little out of his league (I kept on having Memento flashbacks the entire movie - that's how bored I was).
All in all, at the end, I just wished that his time machine could somehow get that hour and a half of my life back, but no such luck.
Well, in all fairness, think of something like September 11th.... Everyone and their grandmother wants to go to cnn.com and see what's going on - Comcast is just trying to optimize the bandwidth they use going upstream, and in the process it also ensures that everyone can see the webpage (instead of having the lovely Slashdot effect..)
Still, Comcast's actions are inexcusable, and not really for technical reasons (@Home had caching transparent proxies for years..)
If I'm forced to use Windows at work, (which has never happened), I will use Putty to make an SSH connection to my box.
Unfortunately it's not always that easy... Last company I worked at I actually did that on a regular basis, till someone in security realized "Hey, he could be funneling sensitive company data through there or port forwarding stuff", and they shut it down. Most larger corporations don't allow telnet/ssh access outbound period, let alone what a previous poster reccomended (telnetting to port 25 on the remote SMTP server).
Yes. It's true that I run a mailing list that does not allow
posting from Windows users. Many people complain about this, but in
my mind I see it as no different than a restaurant or dance hall
having a dress code. It raises the bar for entry to the list, and
ensures that users really want to be there.
Unfortunately some of us aren't graced by employers that let us use *nix variants for everything at work. Sometimes it's Exchange and IE and that's it... Sure, I may run Linux at home on most of my machines, but I certainly do send email from work! Blocking me because I'm sending email from a Microsoft client is immature and ill-conceived.
More like no more catered lunches consisting of gourmet food (go to the deli and get yourself a sandwich)., and no more $800 Aeron chairs. Nothing too outrageous if you ask me......
But as it dragged on more and more, oddly enough, it had given me the opposite feeling that it probably should have - I felt ashamed of being an American - of watching us try to fight someone else's war, genocide or not. I'm sure there's some truth that was missing from the movie, but it has to make you wonder...
It definitely did make me sit down and think later on as to why so many other countries in the world dislike us. If this movie was propoganda, it was certainly not pulled off correctly.
The problem with the way CIDR is implemented is putting people in the situation where they're wasting huge amounts of address blocks. The company that I work for has an entire/16 (class B), yet all we use on our internet-facing networks is a couple of/24's... However, to maintain provider independance and not renumber our entire network, we have to keep the entire/16... We can't, for example, split it in half and give half to another company - ISP's like Verio and the like won't allow that because the network is a "Natural" class B and they won't allow any prefixes smaller than a/16 into their routing tables..
A few months ago I tried to split it in half between two sites of ours, and boy, was that ugly...
Not to nitpick, but USR's external ISDN Terminal Adapters have done this for years... Seamless ISDN and V.90 integration... I'm sure there are other vendors who have done the same (to compete)... Zyxel comes to mind.
1) It increases the number of wires by 4 per 48. It however lessens the trouble involved if a module fails - apparently you've never had the joy of unplugging, keeping track of, and re-plugging in 48 Cat-5 cables in a hurry. It's not fun. An increase of time in the beginning far outweighs the risks of the increase of time in an outage. I can show you pictures of rats nests and tell you horror stories all day about this.
2) The standard Cat-5e configuration still only uses 4 wires. The Telco panels are wired as such. For each Telco harmonica you get 12 ports - quite dense enough.
3) There's nothing that says that gig won't be supported over telco, just like there's still no set-in-stone standard for gig over cat-5. Nothing even says that cat-5e is going to be required.
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Used FedEx to ship it from Philly to Chicago... Long story short, the entire side got dented in, 1 power supply + 4 linecards ruined, as well as the chassis.
:)
We shipped it in the Cisco original packing (pallet + box)... When we put in a claim with FedEx, they told us "The packaging was insufficient - it's your fault"... So, our legal dept called FedEx as if they were a customer and asked "What would be the appropriate way to ship a Cisco Catalyst 6500 switch?" - after they consulted their little guide, they said "In the manufacturers original packaging".
I think you know the end of this story
Well, as much as lawyers suck, Elana does have a point...
Sure, a lawyer may register "ISueForYou.pro", but John Smith, Attorney at Law is smart enough not to register JohnStevensLaw.pro with the hope that someone will buy it - they'd know it wouldn't be worth the litigation to lose to someone who owned the trademark.
No way... What happens when I change my PIN? (something trivial to do with most banks...) They surely don't send me out a new card.
As well, a lot of credit card companies allow you to pick your PIN long after you've received the card...
You're correct, there is no such thing as "I agree to agree", there is however "I agree to abide by the terms of the EULA (as similar printed on software packages), and when I read that EULA if I don't agree, I can return it"... A hassle, yes (I'm not defending EULA's or software manufacturers *at all*, but legally possible.
You give me proof of insurance and proof of a current drivers license, I have you sign the title and registration...
This is in a legit car sale, just the same as the topic is discussing a legit software sale.
In many states a verbal contract is just as binding as a signed one... I'm sure some screwy lawyer somewhere would be able to apply that to, say, a credit card purchase?
Especially since most software warns of licensing agreements somewhere on the outside of the package (Win2K, for one).
You're also violating contract law... Chances are somewhere on the package or CD it informs you that you agree to accept the EULA...
It's akin to paying someone for a car and driving it off the lot without all the paperwork signed.
There's nothing that says that this disclaimer wasn't posted the day after they found out about the problem to CTA.
Anyone able to find an older version from WayBack or the Google cache? I can't.
Does anyone else think that article is written like one of those "Everyone hates the Mayor" newspaper articles in Sim City? :-)
"Betty Stevens says it took her over 8 hours to get to work today! She might as well not work at all!"
Just a stupid observation.
Unless of course you're Somalian or Iraqi... Then, your actions against someone else tend to "wake us up"
Verizon in PA (and I know they've had this for awhile in TX..) has "Call Intercept" now, where if the caller ID is blocked or Out Of Area, it rings straight to this automated-attendant type thing..
They can either hit a 4 digit PIN (say it's a family member...) and it will ring straight through to your phone... Or, they can record their name and you will get a stuttered ring on your phone and when you answer, the persons name plays and you can either accept the call, reject it with a "Remove me from your list, I don't like telemarketers", or send it to your home voicemail service (if you subscribe)...
If it's a predictive/autodialer, they never get through because it requires at least one touch-tone be pressed and the caller actually say something.
Where I used to get 3-5 telemarketing or dead air calls a day, I now get none... Nifty, and well worth the $4.00. Works better than the Telezapper IMO.
Yeah, we also got a pretty letter from the inside wiring contractor in one of our buildings telling us that they're filing a mechanics lien against Yipes for not paying them the ~$10k they owe them for inside wiring work...
They also threatened to pull the fiber that runs between their cabinet and our data center if we didn't pay for the crossconnect that Yipes was supposed to pay for...
We're hoping they dig themselves out of this one, and the excuse we've gotten from them seems plausible - and we have sufficient backup connectivity (both internet and MAN) anyways.
We have no customers that come to the office (except on extremely rare occasions, say, ~2 times a year)... There's no reason to dress up except to see each other looking pretty.
Last thing I want to do is worry about fucking up my suit while I'm trying to pull a cable through the data center raised floor.
We got this in our email this morning:
In light of the (company name erased) successful efforts to expandthe customer business, effective, April 15, 2002, (company name erased) dress code will go from business casual attire to business formal. This change in policy is attributed to the increased number of customers (both current and potential) who will be guests in (company name erased) offices around the world. Formal business attire will include business suits, appropriate footwear and ties for men. Jeans and khakis will no longer be considered appropriate attire. We understand that this is a drastic change in our current policy, but appreciate your cooperation and understanding as (company name erased) continues to adapt to the changing business environment.
Not so much as the nameplate. When that laptop's screen fries prematurely, if I buy my laptop from Joe Schmoe's laptop company, there's no guarantee that he's going to be around to fix it - and they aren't very cheap (or practical) to replace yourself, unlike desktop PC's.
You are, however, paying for the nameplate if you're buying a basic PC and can buy the same (warranted) parts elsewhere... But sometimes it's cheaper to just let Dell worry about the individual part warranties and be able to just get an entire system overnighted to you in the event of a failure.
It looked kinda cool, but I was very concerned when I walked into a near-empty theater on a Saturday night. I went about brushing that off, realizing that the main-stream America isn't into Sci-Fi films.
Turns out main stream America just isn't into films that stink. They took a long sordid tale and jammed it into almost exactly an hour and a half, and left the parts that should have been in there out and vice versa... Even for a Sci-Fi movie, the plot made absolutely no sense into the second half of the movie.
The acting was pretty good, Guy Pearce seemed like he might've been a little out of his league (I kept on having Memento flashbacks the entire movie - that's how bored I was).
All in all, at the end, I just wished that his time machine could somehow get that hour and a half of my life back, but no such luck.
Well, in all fairness, think of something like September 11th.... Everyone and their grandmother wants to go to cnn.com and see what's going on - Comcast is just trying to optimize the bandwidth they use going upstream, and in the process it also ensures that everyone can see the webpage (instead of having the lovely Slashdot effect..)
Still, Comcast's actions are inexcusable, and not really for technical reasons (@Home had caching transparent proxies for years..)
If I'm forced to use Windows at work, (which has never happened), I will use Putty to make an SSH connection to my box.
Unfortunately it's not always that easy... Last company I worked at I actually did that on a regular basis, till someone in security realized "Hey, he could be funneling sensitive company data through there or port forwarding stuff", and they shut it down. Most larger corporations don't allow telnet/ssh access outbound period, let alone what a previous poster reccomended (telnetting to port 25 on the remote SMTP server).
Yes. It's true that I run a mailing list that does not allow
posting from Windows users. Many people complain about this, but in
my mind I see it as no different than a restaurant or dance hall
having a dress code. It raises the bar for entry to the list, and
ensures that users really want to be there.
Unfortunately some of us aren't graced by employers that let us use *nix variants for everything at work. Sometimes it's Exchange and IE and that's it... Sure, I may run Linux at home on most of my machines, but I certainly do send email from work! Blocking me because I'm sending email from a Microsoft client is immature and ill-conceived.
More like no more catered lunches consisting of gourmet food (go to the deli and get yourself a sandwich)., and no more $800 Aeron chairs. Nothing too outrageous if you ask me......
But as it dragged on more and more, oddly enough, it had given me the opposite feeling that it probably should have - I felt ashamed of being an American - of watching us try to fight someone else's war, genocide or not. I'm sure there's some truth that was missing from the movie, but it has to make you wonder...
It definitely did make me sit down and think later on as to why so many other countries in the world dislike us. If this movie was propoganda, it was certainly not pulled off correctly.
Actually, funny enough, the Cisco c3660 does... Just gotta make sure they're parity :-)
:)
Quick, easy, dirt cheap way to add 256mb to those boxen
The problem with the way CIDR is implemented is putting people in the situation where they're wasting huge amounts of address blocks. The company that I work for has an entire /16 (class B), yet all we use on our internet-facing networks is a couple of /24's... However, to maintain provider independance and not renumber our entire network, we have to keep the entire /16... We can't, for example, split it in half and give half to another company - ISP's like Verio and the like won't allow that because the network is a "Natural" class B and they won't allow any prefixes smaller than a /16 into their routing tables..
A few months ago I tried to split it in half between two sites of ours, and boy, was that ugly...
Not to nitpick, but USR's external ISDN Terminal Adapters have done this for years... Seamless ISDN and V.90 integration... I'm sure there are other vendors who have done the same (to compete)... Zyxel comes to mind.
-DT
Not especially.... To answer in order:
1) It increases the number of wires by 4 per 48. It however lessens the trouble involved if a module fails - apparently you've never had the joy of unplugging, keeping track of, and re-plugging in 48 Cat-5 cables in a hurry. It's not fun. An increase of time in the beginning far outweighs the risks of the increase of time in an outage. I can show you pictures of rats nests and tell you horror stories all day about this.
2) The standard Cat-5e configuration still only uses 4 wires. The Telco panels are wired as such. For each Telco harmonica you get 12 ports - quite dense enough.
3) There's nothing that says that gig won't be supported over telco, just like there's still no set-in-stone standard for gig over cat-5. Nothing even says that cat-5e is going to be required.