I'm not influenced by advertising, no really I'm not. When I buy pizza at the store (or anything for that matter) I look at what's the cheapest for the minimum quality I will accept. Coupons and store sales are often the deciding factor, not advertising. I wear clothes without company logos on them, and I buy the safest car that can haul my load and is in the "5 star crash test" category which is made in the US (Honda counts since they have quite a few plants here), etc. Then again I watched a whole two hours of tv this week and next week even that will be adless since I'm almost done with my home brew PVR.
Yes because obtaining a merchant account through a shell company is SO difficult. I mean Visa has less barriers to entry than Choicepoint and thieves who have yet to be found were able to make MANY false accounts with Choicepoint.
Hell, checking signatures is retarded, even so called "experts" can not reliably distinguish signatures with anything aproaching 100% accuracy. The real answer is to have all credit cards use smartcards and carry a picture of the person who the card was issued to. Then again I think this move shows what Visa et al are interested in, more convenience, not sucurity. I've had a Visa smart card for the last 5 years and other than using it for online signon I've used it in exactly TWO shops in those five years, both times the cashier was clueless as to how to use it despite the fact that the reader had a nice animated picture of the correct procedure on the LCD. Oh yeah, requesting ID is a GOOD thing because it raises the bar for using a stolen card to producing not just the card but matching false documents.
Then you weren't doing raised floor correctly. The correct way is to setup a number of cabling distribution points. Each of these consists of a half rack of cable management space and a half rack for networking equipment. From the normal racks to the cable distribution facility you run your cables and terminate them in a remote cabling boxes which sit above or below each rack. You then use patch cables from your servers to the cabling box, changing a server's wiring is easy. Use decent cabling (Cat6) and you will probably never need to change out the distribution cabling. Add some fibre runs and you should be all set. The great thing about RJ45 cabling like this is almost all gear can use it, remote KVM's, serial consoles, temperature probes, etc. If you get to such densities that the number of runs per rack gets out of hand then you simply use a switch per rack and use a high bandwidth uplink to the central network equipment.
Just means you will have to use a corp key which does not require activation. I know as a support tech I would never sit through a freaking queue every time I had to reactivate windows.
Well, a high end chip is one designed for throughput as well as number crunching on tiny data sets. In fact the biggest problem for most computational problems today is not cycles but memory bandwidth, and a Sparc system delivers memory bandwidth in spades for a large number of processors. The Sun machines are unfortunatly for Sun not needed by that many people as many classes of large jobs have had architectures designed that allow them to run on piles of comodity wintel/lintel servers. Sun realizes this and want to be the guy that supplies you with those comodity boxes as well as the big back end database server that feeds them all. Another fine example of a high end chip is the PA-RISC chip which does checksuming in every component and which runs all calculations through either two CPU's or two cores to make sure that hardware errors don't produce data errors. That's not something that tends to produce the fastest chip on a given process but there are companies willing to pay for it, which makes it a high end chip.
Because without exception the cable bundled DVR's suck ass, and the cable companies will never give you a feature like 30 second skip even though it's one of the things that people with third party products most rave about? Would I buy a DVR from Apple that costs around $500, does HDTV and allows download on demand? You betcha, and I can guarentee you that I'm not alone. The hardware should be doable, just add a tuner to the mini design and throw away the general PC functionality so as not to canabilze their own market, the content part is tricky, but Jobs has by far the best chance since he's already hooked into the media industry through his shopping for a distributor for Pixar when he had his spat with Eisener.
Single cable networks are present in the majority of areas, but not all. I personally live in a municipality that saw fit back in the 80's to demand a two provider network. So when Adelphia told me they wouldn't install without major electical upgrades (my house has knob and tube two-wire wiring with no grounds in the old part of the house) I simply went to the alternate provider who had me up and running in a couple days. Not only were they more responsive, but they were also about $7/month less expensive with a less congested IP network. I like competition, and you are correct that monopoly utilities is anti-capatalist.
While true today, it won't be for much longer Windows Server 2003 x64 is scheduled for a first half 2005 delivery (next couple months) and the big apps (Exchange and SQL) each have an update coming to support it (2003 SP2 for Exchange and SQL2005 for SQL Server). Linux gets around it by allowing 64bit equipment with 40bit physical addressing to act like what it actually is, 64bit. The kernal and libraries have been updated for a long time and some major apps have been 64bit clean for a long time due to running on other UNIX platforms where 64bit has been standard for some time, and others have been updated since the Opteron was launched and 64bit became cheaper. But you are partly correct that under a standard x86 kernel your processes are limited to 2GB, or 3-3.5GB with optional switches.
I don't think it's at all misleading, the FCC rule pertaining to this is:
Sec. 15.204 External radio frequency power amplifiers and antenna
modifications.
(a) Except as otherwise described in paragraph (b) of this section, no person shall use, manufacture, sell or lease, offer for sale or lease (including advertising for sale or lease), or import, ship, or distribute for the purpose of selling or leasing, any external radio frequency power amplifier or amplifier kit intended for use with a Part 15 intentional radiator.
(b) A transmission system consisting of an intentional radiator, an external radio frequency power amplifier, and an antenna, may be
authorized, marketed and used under this part. However, when a transmission system is authorized as a system, it must always be marketed as a complete system and must always be used in the
configuration in which it was authorized. An external radio frequency power amplifier shall be marketed only in the system configuration with
which the amplifier is authorized and shall not be marketed as a separate product.
Which as you noted makes exception for amplifiers that are sold as part of a certified system, but that otherwise no amplifiers can be sold for part 15 devices. So addon amplifiers are definitly a no-no and the exception is basically made for things like the amp stage in a wi-fi card, though it can technically be used to allow a large external amplifier as part of a system so long as it otherwise meets the guidlines for part 15.
Yes, in fact the law requires that the antenna interface be prioprietary, or at least non-standard and not easy for a random user to attach a non-tested antenna to.
No, a gigabit adapter can't saturate a PCI bus by itself, 32bit 33MHz PCI is 133MB/s, gigabit is 100MB/s. Then there is 32bit 66MHz PCI, and if you want you could run a 32bit card at 133MHz as the standard supports it (though I've never heard of such a card, if you need 133MHz you generally also need 64bit but I assume a ADC could use the faster speed but not need the wider word size. The fastest current implementation of the slot local bus is 16 channel PCI-express which could handle 4 10gigabit adapters. The problem would be coming up with enough data to keep those pipes full, no disk subsystem is fast enough, and any meaningfull SQL transactions are going to be CPU limited on even the bigest of servers, so why would you need a bus with more bandwidth than that? Add to this the fact that servers which actually need more throughput have long had the faster PCI slots and you realize that it's not a problem in the real world.
Yes, because it is almost impossible to create seals that completely stop hydrogen from leaking, when new. Once they've had some real world exposure I'm sure that most seals would leak hydrogen like a sieve.
There is no way that their support personell per employee went up six fold in two years! Hell if it doubled people would be fired left and right, you don't significantly increase the expense of your IT department without noticing it.
They obviously don't know their own department. I worked as a contractor for them a couple years ago. I was the only onsite tech support person for two sites with a total of 250 users, with 99% of those being windows. I was also part of the support teams initial Linux push, and I can tell you that the biggest driver from a customer (end user) perspective was the idea of using cheap Opteron workstations instead of uber expensive Sun stations. A Sun dual CPU workstation at the time with 12GB of ram was over $50k dollars, whereas an Opteron station with more cpu power and the same amount of ram was under $10K. That is a huge difference in price. The biggest factor stopping it from becoming a reality was the fact that at the time the Clearcase tool chain and support tools weren't fully functional under Linux. So I doubt the driver was so much lower desktop support costs as it was lower equipment costs.
Yeah, and it is a systemic problem. When Windows 2000 came out I worked at a very large network equipment manufacturer, and most of our engineers had dual headed windows machines. Well most engineers also run an X package to talk to their Unix workstation and/or the Unix servers. So we upgrade a couple dozen test users to 2000, and 3 of them are having really weird graphics problems with the X package. I get on the phone with tech support, and after going through first and second level support I get placed in contact with the developer. We eventually figure out is that windows sends incorrect screen geometry if the taskbar is anywhere but at the bottom of the left display with autohide disabled, if it's anywhere else, including on the right monitor, or at the top ala mac's then windows sends essentially garbage screen geometry data. He came out with a patch within a couple weeks and we tested it and everything was ok from then on, but man was he pissed at the MS code monkeys and test department that let that through =)
Wrong, the origional cluster used G5's, they just used dual G5 towers. Later the cluster was upgraded to dual G5 Xserver's running faster than publicly available G5 chips (as you noted).
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Yes, it was an attempt at geek humor, I guess the mod's didn't realize that this was the same group that broke MD5 a few months ago. I definitly wasn't trying to get flamed, oh well guess the joke was too obtuse.
/me Log into VPN Firewall Check VPN settings Notices SHA for authentication type Swears Checks other option, notices {none} and {md5} scratches head decides to go with MD5 until that too is broken/me wishes security were easier
You are wrong, the NSA's first goal is to break enemy cyphers, but a strong second goal is to keep our own cyphers secure. Witness the tweak to the DES sbox selection, it made DES more secure against a class of attacks that the civilian sector wouldn't reinvent for several decades. It makes sense to have your people that know the most about security and breaking into secure systems establish the practices for other agencies to follow, now having them actually enforce said policies is another matter. It might lead to hostility as well as turf wars between the NSA and other branches of the security sector.
Finally, from their own mission statement page.
The Information Assurance mission provides the solutions, products, and services, and conducts defensive information operations, to achieve information assurance for information infrastructures critical to U.S. national security interests.
actually by almost any definition my SIP phone is not a server, it does not accept incoming TCP connections (it initiates the conversation, so that it works through NAT), it does not provide an information service to third parties, etc. Besides my ISP allows non-commercial servers =)
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I'm not influenced by advertising, no really I'm not. When I buy pizza at the store (or anything for that matter) I look at what's the cheapest for the minimum quality I will accept. Coupons and store sales are often the deciding factor, not advertising. I wear clothes without company logos on them, and I buy the safest car that can haul my load and is in the "5 star crash test" category which is made in the US (Honda counts since they have quite a few plants here), etc. Then again I watched a whole two hours of tv this week and next week even that will be adless since I'm almost done with my home brew PVR.
Yes because obtaining a merchant account through a shell company is SO difficult. I mean Visa has less barriers to entry than Choicepoint and thieves who have yet to be found were able to make MANY false accounts with Choicepoint.
Hell, checking signatures is retarded, even so called "experts" can not reliably distinguish signatures with anything aproaching 100% accuracy. The real answer is to have all credit cards use smartcards and carry a picture of the person who the card was issued to. Then again I think this move shows what Visa et al are interested in, more convenience, not sucurity. I've had a Visa smart card for the last 5 years and other than using it for online signon I've used it in exactly TWO shops in those five years, both times the cashier was clueless as to how to use it despite the fact that the reader had a nice animated picture of the correct procedure on the LCD. Oh yeah, requesting ID is a GOOD thing because it raises the bar for using a stolen card to producing not just the card but matching false documents.
Then you weren't doing raised floor correctly. The correct way is to setup a number of cabling distribution points. Each of these consists of a half rack of cable management space and a half rack for networking equipment. From the normal racks to the cable distribution facility you run your cables and terminate them in a remote cabling boxes which sit above or below each rack. You then use patch cables from your servers to the cabling box, changing a server's wiring is easy. Use decent cabling (Cat6) and you will probably never need to change out the distribution cabling. Add some fibre runs and you should be all set. The great thing about RJ45 cabling like this is almost all gear can use it, remote KVM's, serial consoles, temperature probes, etc. If you get to such densities that the number of runs per rack gets out of hand then you simply use a switch per rack and use a high bandwidth uplink to the central network equipment.
Just means you will have to use a corp key which does not require activation. I know as a support tech I would never sit through a freaking queue every time I had to reactivate windows.
Well, a high end chip is one designed for throughput as well as number crunching on tiny data sets. In fact the biggest problem for most computational problems today is not cycles but memory bandwidth, and a Sparc system delivers memory bandwidth in spades for a large number of processors. The Sun machines are unfortunatly for Sun not needed by that many people as many classes of large jobs have had architectures designed that allow them to run on piles of comodity wintel/lintel servers. Sun realizes this and want to be the guy that supplies you with those comodity boxes as well as the big back end database server that feeds them all. Another fine example of a high end chip is the PA-RISC chip which does checksuming in every component and which runs all calculations through either two CPU's or two cores to make sure that hardware errors don't produce data errors. That's not something that tends to produce the fastest chip on a given process but there are companies willing to pay for it, which makes it a high end chip.
Uh, check your facts budy. Here's a link since you obviously can't use google.
Because without exception the cable bundled DVR's suck ass, and the cable companies will never give you a feature like 30 second skip even though it's one of the things that people with third party products most rave about? Would I buy a DVR from Apple that costs around $500, does HDTV and allows download on demand? You betcha, and I can guarentee you that I'm not alone. The hardware should be doable, just add a tuner to the mini design and throw away the general PC functionality so as not to canabilze their own market, the content part is tricky, but Jobs has by far the best chance since he's already hooked into the media industry through his shopping for a distributor for Pixar when he had his spat with Eisener.
Single cable networks are present in the majority of areas, but not all. I personally live in a municipality that saw fit back in the 80's to demand a two provider network. So when Adelphia told me they wouldn't install without major electical upgrades (my house has knob and tube two-wire wiring with no grounds in the old part of the house) I simply went to the alternate provider who had me up and running in a couple days. Not only were they more responsive, but they were also about $7/month less expensive with a less congested IP network. I like competition, and you are correct that monopoly utilities is anti-capatalist.
While true today, it won't be for much longer Windows Server 2003 x64 is scheduled for a first half 2005 delivery (next couple months) and the big apps (Exchange and SQL) each have an update coming to support it (2003 SP2 for Exchange and SQL2005 for SQL Server). Linux gets around it by allowing 64bit equipment with 40bit physical addressing to act like what it actually is, 64bit. The kernal and libraries have been updated for a long time and some major apps have been 64bit clean for a long time due to running on other UNIX platforms where 64bit has been standard for some time, and others have been updated since the Opteron was launched and 64bit became cheaper. But you are partly correct that under a standard x86 kernel your processes are limited to 2GB, or 3-3.5GB with optional switches.
In a real datacenter there are two sources of power to every rack so that stupid stuff like this doesn't kill an entire section =)
I don't think it's at all misleading, the FCC rule pertaining to this is:
Sec. 15.204 External radio frequency power amplifiers and antenna modifications.
(a) Except as otherwise described in paragraph (b) of this section, no person shall use, manufacture, sell or lease, offer for sale or lease (including advertising for sale or lease), or import, ship, or distribute for the purpose of selling or leasing, any external radio frequency power amplifier or amplifier kit intended for use with a Part 15 intentional radiator.
(b) A transmission system consisting of an intentional radiator, an external radio frequency power amplifier, and an antenna, may be authorized, marketed and used under this part. However, when a transmission system is authorized as a system, it must always be marketed as a complete system and must always be used in the configuration in which it was authorized. An external radio frequency power amplifier shall be marketed only in the system configuration with which the amplifier is authorized and shall not be marketed as a separate product.
Which as you noted makes exception for amplifiers that are sold as part of a certified system, but that otherwise no amplifiers can be sold for part 15 devices. So addon amplifiers are definitly a no-no and the exception is basically made for things like the amp stage in a wi-fi card, though it can technically be used to allow a large external amplifier as part of a system so long as it otherwise meets the guidlines for part 15.
Yes, in fact the law requires that the antenna interface be prioprietary, or at least non-standard and not easy for a random user to attach a non-tested antenna to.
Nope, it is required for all ISM band equipment, in fact the ISM band regulations specifically forbid any type of addon amplifier.
No, a gigabit adapter can't saturate a PCI bus by itself, 32bit 33MHz PCI is 133MB/s, gigabit is 100MB/s. Then there is 32bit 66MHz PCI, and if you want you could run a 32bit card at 133MHz as the standard supports it (though I've never heard of such a card, if you need 133MHz you generally also need 64bit but I assume a ADC could use the faster speed but not need the wider word size. The fastest current implementation of the slot local bus is 16 channel PCI-express which could handle 4 10gigabit adapters. The problem would be coming up with enough data to keep those pipes full, no disk subsystem is fast enough, and any meaningfull SQL transactions are going to be CPU limited on even the bigest of servers, so why would you need a bus with more bandwidth than that? Add to this the fact that servers which actually need more throughput have long had the faster PCI slots and you realize that it's not a problem in the real world.
Yes, because it is almost impossible to create seals that completely stop hydrogen from leaking, when new. Once they've had some real world exposure I'm sure that most seals would leak hydrogen like a sieve.
There is no way that their support personell per employee went up six fold in two years! Hell if it doubled people would be fired left and right, you don't significantly increase the expense of your IT department without noticing it.
They obviously don't know their own department. I worked as a contractor for them a couple years ago. I was the only onsite tech support person for two sites with a total of 250 users, with 99% of those being windows. I was also part of the support teams initial Linux push, and I can tell you that the biggest driver from a customer (end user) perspective was the idea of using cheap Opteron workstations instead of uber expensive Sun stations. A Sun dual CPU workstation at the time with 12GB of ram was over $50k dollars, whereas an Opteron station with more cpu power and the same amount of ram was under $10K. That is a huge difference in price. The biggest factor stopping it from becoming a reality was the fact that at the time the Clearcase tool chain and support tools weren't fully functional under Linux. So I doubt the driver was so much lower desktop support costs as it was lower equipment costs.
Yeah, and it is a systemic problem. When Windows 2000 came out I worked at a very large network equipment manufacturer, and most of our engineers had dual headed windows machines. Well most engineers also run an X package to talk to their Unix workstation and/or the Unix servers. So we upgrade a couple dozen test users to 2000, and 3 of them are having really weird graphics problems with the X package. I get on the phone with tech support, and after going through first and second level support I get placed in contact with the developer. We eventually figure out is that windows sends incorrect screen geometry if the taskbar is anywhere but at the bottom of the left display with autohide disabled, if it's anywhere else, including on the right monitor, or at the top ala mac's then windows sends essentially garbage screen geometry data. He came out with a patch within a couple weeks and we tested it and everything was ok from then on, but man was he pissed at the MS code monkeys and test department that let that through =)
Or, for even faster switching hit and select a user who is already logged in, nearly instantaneous!
Wrong, the origional cluster used G5's, they just used dual G5 towers. Later the cluster was upgraded to dual G5 Xserver's running faster than publicly available G5 chips (as you noted).
Yes, it was an attempt at geek humor, I guess the mod's didn't realize that this was the same group that broke MD5 a few months ago. I definitly wasn't trying to get flamed, oh well guess the joke was too obtuse.
/me /me wishes security were easier
Log into VPN Firewall
Check VPN settings
Notices SHA for authentication type
Swears
Checks other option, notices {none} and {md5}
scratches head
decides to go with MD5 until that too is broken
You are wrong, the NSA's first goal is to break enemy cyphers, but a strong second goal is to keep our own cyphers secure. Witness the tweak to the DES sbox selection, it made DES more secure against a class of attacks that the civilian sector wouldn't reinvent for several decades. It makes sense to have your people that know the most about security and breaking into secure systems establish the practices for other agencies to follow, now having them actually enforce said policies is another matter. It might lead to hostility as well as turf wars between the NSA and other branches of the security sector.
Finally, from their own mission statement page.
The Information Assurance mission provides the solutions, products, and services, and conducts defensive information operations, to achieve information assurance for information infrastructures critical to U.S. national security interests.
actually by almost any definition my SIP phone is not a server, it does not accept incoming TCP connections (it initiates the conversation, so that it works through NAT), it does not provide an information service to third parties, etc. Besides my ISP allows non-commercial servers =)