Lo these many years ago, I worked for a company that used a Wang VS system. We were testing some voicemail thing
they were trying to sell us. As I recall, the Wang system wasn't smart about detecting when someone hung
up the phone and you were supposed to hit the "#" key on the keypad when you were done with it. We had a training
class where one of the women in the department was going over the functions from the phone keypad and she said "Always
pound off the Wang". I was snickering for the next week.
Actually, on the web UI there is an "Options" pull down when you're composing a message that allows you to toggle "Format as HTML" or "Format
as plain text", so you don't even have to hit preferences.
We've still got a number of DEC Venturis 133Mhz Pentium systems on our manufacturing floor. They are now running Thinstation, talking RDP to Windows terminal servers. The things are built like a tank and they still work great.
I don't know about calling the life of the vehicle 200k. I've got a Toyota Sienna with 305k on it and its still going strong. I'm also toying with picking up a hybrid, and the battery replacement is one thing that has me scratching my head a bit.
FWIW, ESX does in fact use FlexLM.
In this case, it's not the license server that has gone down, but the code in ESX that is interperting the what the license server is returning that is broke.
Same here. My (cheap) home office chair fell apart and I decided to get a serious one. The Mirra felt better to me than the Aeron or the Steelcase Leap I have at work and seems to be less fussy in terms of fit if more than one person will be using it.
Better yet, de-duplicate the data and then replicate it over a WAN connection to a remote site. No tapes to go missing or bad, no waiting for media to get driven around. To quote a Data Domain ad: "Tape Sucks".
Indeed. We use the Avamar backup software from (now) EMC that does the block level deduplication in software running on the client. It really does find just the modified chunks of a file to backup. It's amazing stuff. It makes remote backups and replication over modest bandwidth WANs really painless.
You don't mention the switches you're using, but from the fine Equallogic training class I went to a couple
of weeks back, a couple of the big things that can effect iSCSI performance are flow control on both the switch
and client's ethernet interfaces, disabling unicast storm control on the switch and turning on jumbo frames. The general drift was that iSCSI can pound the snot out of switches and cheap ones just don't work all that well. Stacked Cisco 3750s are apparently popular, and there were a couple comments that (ahem) Dell switches suck for iSCSI.
It's probably worth pointing out that using WPA-PSK with a key that can be found in a dictionary is, well, dumb.
Use a 64 digit random number from (for example):
"Microsoft has told all it's VARs not to sell volume licenses of Office 2003"
It's been several months since I went through the pain of attempting to decode the "Open License" minutia, so this may have changed, but all of the programs include the right to run previous versions, i.e. buy a MOLP licenses for Office 2007, and legally run Office XP. From a quick search, it looks to still be the case, see:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/A/A/7AA89 A8B-BF4D-446B-A50C-C9B00024DF33/open_license_progr amguide.pdf
They call it "Downgrade Rights"
From the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch:
"The prior Ohio contract price for the Diebold AccuVote-TS without a voter verified paper audit trail was $2,964.96 per unit."
IIRC, there are charges for "support" and "training" on top of the unit price.
It was. The network types thought the show was too cerebral for the audience, and didnt like Majel Barrett as a strong second in command character. They ended up asking for a second pilot (unusual) with more emphasis on the action (Wagontrain to the stars was how rodenberry pitched it IIRC).
I think I'm ashamed I know this:-)
Actually, No that is not the point of NTP. A big part of what NTP brings to the table is coordination and consistency checking. If a locally attached GPS is your only source of time, you have no way of knowing if it is sane or not. The NTP client software can be pointed at multiple servers and can make decisions about which ones are returning reasonable time.
fwiw, Tardis doesn't really do the full up NTP bag of tricks. If your'e really serious about timekeeping on Windows, get the Windows port of the standard NTP distribution. See:
http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Main/ExternalTimeRelat edLinks
The real NTP does a better job of disciplining the clock than Tardis and its free to boot.
We use the one by Terje Mathisen which is a straight port of the *ix versions, text config files and all. The Meinberg version IIRC has a GUI.
That's why the voter shouldn't be able to verify it, but the voting officials should be able to.
Just to clarify, these are "secret ballots", yes? No, the officials are *not* supposed to be able to tell how an individual votes. They *are* supposed to verify that the voter is registered, the voter is in fact that person, and that the ballots have not been tampered with. Then comes the correct counting
FWIW, we have the on site support on the Nortels and they havent impressed me with their promptness. We have not had an entire system blow up (knock on wood), but one of the voice mail pieces wacked out and it took them 2 days to get it back. Your'e much, much better off with the Asterisk box. I'm jealous:-)
So do the proprietary phone systems you mentioned include the redundancy your'e talking about with Asterisk? I'd expect not. We use Nortel (Norstar and BCM) systems and they dont even begin to think about redundant *anything*. Of course, that means that the cost difference should even be larger.
The big difference I see is reboots. With SUS/WSUS for distributing Windows updates, the update process grinds to a halt when one of the damned patches wants a reboot. Rebooting a production server is a major PITA. It seems like about half the updates want reboots. I use yum on the Linux side, and everything keeps on going until you can get a reboot in. The Windows update clients also have much more of a tendancy to just go wierd and not update. Again, the yum world just works.
Also in RF land, its a question of "who's talking loudest". Clone the MAC of a "official" network member, aim your high gain antenna at the access point, and your faked node should drown out the legit one.
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People forget that she also screwed up Lucent and thereby Bell Labs.
Lo these many years ago, I worked for a company that used a Wang VS system. We were testing some voicemail thing they were trying to sell us. As I recall, the Wang system wasn't smart about detecting when someone hung up the phone and you were supposed to hit the "#" key on the keypad when you were done with it. We had a training class where one of the women in the department was going over the functions from the phone keypad and she said "Always pound off the Wang". I was snickering for the next week.
Actually, on the web UI there is an "Options" pull down when you're composing a message that allows you to toggle "Format as HTML" or "Format as plain text", so you don't even have to hit preferences.
We've still got a number of DEC Venturis 133Mhz Pentium systems on our manufacturing floor. They are now running Thinstation, talking RDP to Windows terminal servers. The things are built like a tank and they still work great.
I don't know about calling the life of the vehicle 200k. I've got a Toyota Sienna with 305k on it and its still going strong. I'm also toying with picking up a hybrid, and the battery replacement is one thing that has me scratching my head a bit.
FWIW, ESX does in fact use FlexLM. In this case, it's not the license server that has gone down, but the code in ESX that is interperting the what the license server is returning that is broke.
Same here. My (cheap) home office chair fell apart and I decided to get a serious one. The Mirra felt better to me than the Aeron or the Steelcase Leap I have at work and seems to be less fussy in terms of fit if more than one person will be using it.
Better yet, de-duplicate the data and then replicate it over a WAN connection to a remote site. No tapes to go missing or bad, no waiting for media to get driven around. To quote a Data Domain ad: "Tape Sucks".
Indeed. We use the Avamar backup software from (now) EMC that does the block level deduplication in software running on the client. It really does find just the modified chunks of a file to backup. It's amazing stuff. It makes remote backups and replication over modest bandwidth WANs really painless.
You don't mention the switches you're using, but from the fine Equallogic training class I went to a couple of weeks back, a couple of the big things that can effect iSCSI performance are flow control on both the switch and client's ethernet interfaces, disabling unicast storm control on the switch and turning on jumbo frames. The general drift was that iSCSI can pound the snot out of switches and cheap ones just don't work all that well. Stacked Cisco 3750s are apparently popular, and there were a couple comments that (ahem) Dell switches suck for iSCSI.
It's probably worth pointing out that using WPA-PSK with a key that can be found in a dictionary is, well, dumb. Use a 64 digit random number from (for example):
dd if=/dev/random bs=1 count=32 2>/dev/null |xxd -ps -c 32
That should eliminate the (known) methods for hacking WPA.
"Microsoft has told all it's VARs not to sell volume licenses of Office 2003" It's been several months since I went through the pain of attempting to decode the "Open License" minutia, so this may have changed, but all of the programs include the right to run previous versions, i.e. buy a MOLP licenses for Office 2007, and legally run Office XP. From a quick search, it looks to still be the case, see: http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/A/A/7AA89 A8B-BF4D-446B-A50C-C9B00024DF33/open_license_progr amguide.pdf
They call it "Downgrade Rights"
From the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch: "The prior Ohio contract price for the Diebold AccuVote-TS without a voter verified paper audit trail was $2,964.96 per unit." IIRC, there are charges for "support" and "training" on top of the unit price.
It was. The network types thought the show was too cerebral for the audience, and didnt like Majel Barrett as a strong second in command character. They ended up asking for a second pilot (unusual) with more emphasis on the action (Wagontrain to the stars was how rodenberry pitched it IIRC). I think I'm ashamed I know this :-)
Actually, No that is not the point of NTP. A big part of what NTP brings to the table is coordination and consistency checking. If a locally attached GPS is your only source of time, you have no way of knowing if it is sane or not. The NTP client software can be pointed at multiple servers and can make decisions about which ones are returning reasonable time.
fwiw, Tardis doesn't really do the full up NTP bag of tricks. If your'e really serious about timekeeping on Windows, get the Windows port of the standard NTP distribution. See: http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Main/ExternalTimeRelat edLinks
The real NTP does a better job of disciplining the clock than Tardis and its free to boot.
We use the one by Terje Mathisen which is a straight port of the *ix versions, text config files and all. The Meinberg version IIRC has a GUI.
Your phone was not being tapped when you called from Ohio to Wisconsin to wish your grandmother a happy birthday.
And exactly how do you know that? And I, at least, do not find "Cuz Bush sez so" to be believeable.
That's why the voter shouldn't be able to verify it, but the voting officials should be able to.
Just to clarify, these are "secret ballots", yes? No, the officials are *not* supposed to be able to tell how an individual votes. They *are* supposed to verify that the voter is registered, the voter is in fact that person, and that the ballots have not been tampered with. Then comes the correct counting
FWIW, we have the on site support on the Nortels and they havent impressed me with their promptness. We have not had an entire system blow up (knock on wood), but one of the voice mail pieces wacked out and it took them 2 days to get it back. Your'e much, much better off with the Asterisk box. I'm jealous :-)
So do the proprietary phone systems you mentioned include the redundancy your'e talking about with Asterisk? I'd expect not. We use Nortel (Norstar and BCM) systems and they dont even begin to think about redundant *anything*. Of course, that means that the cost difference should even be larger.
Teach creationism too?
Actually, the Judge came to the conclusion that "Intelligent Design" *is* creationism.
The big difference I see is reboots. With SUS/WSUS for distributing Windows updates, the update process grinds to a halt when one of the damned patches wants a reboot. Rebooting a production server is a major PITA. It seems like about half the updates want reboots. I use yum on the Linux side, and everything keeps on going until you can get a reboot in. The Windows update clients also have much more of a tendancy to just go wierd and not update. Again, the yum world just works.
Pretty much the same here. FWIW, I seem to know a number of people that can afford cable, but dont have it due to lack of interest.
That looks to be a reseller. The real home for the Air Fortress products is http://www.fortresstech.com/
Also in RF land, its a question of "who's talking loudest". Clone the MAC of a "official" network member, aim your high gain antenna at the access point, and your faked node should drown out the legit one.