Try a sales droid/manager or customer retention department if they have one. It costs companies a LOT of money to get new customers so if there is something cheap/free they can do to retain one they often will. If you are really happy with the service it might be worth it to spend 30 minutes or less on the phone trying to get satisfaction. I got double peak airtime minutes and free nights and weekends just by calling AT&T customer retention and telling them I was switching to Verizon if they couldn't get me a better deal.
Have you called/emailed Packet8 to ask them if they would provide you the SIP username/password? If you let them know that the reason you are going to leave is lack of access to this info you may find that they will be accomodating.
Dude get your facts straight, VoIP has ZERO impact on the ability to get a correct 911 entry. Also there is nothing inherint in VoIP->POTS gateways that makes call accounting less usefull, hell it's definitly in the VoIP providers interest to have accurate records so they can bill you so why wouldn't they have good call logging? Come up with some good arguments like more pieces make for inherintly less stable networks, or that voice quality can suck without QoS, etc and I might be with you but putting up straw men is just stupid.
Um, last time I worked on it IOS was built using the Sun compiler chain on Solaris servers. Our local IOS repository was a 16 way SunFire running Rational Clear Case and the compile machine was a 4 way SunFire with faster CPU's running a glued together compile chain. They were working towards supporting GNU toolchain two years ago but it was slow going since the IOS toolchain had always been Solaris based.
Re:Reuters: source code lifted from Cisco corp net
on
Arrest in Cisco Code Theft
·
· Score: 4, Interesting
Wouldn't be hard if you had a way to get past the firewall of doom (the nickname for the main gateway firewalls at Cisco). Once internal you basically have your typicall soft centered network. The source code is available via NFSv3 mount points that are protected by simple host authnetication with username/password authentication being bypassable. Only the export restricted stuff is really all that locked down and even that wouldn't be that hard to get to for a determined hacker.
This knowledge is now 3 years out of date but I really doubt Cisco has taken major leaps to improve internal security.
Considering that the Fall equinox isn't until Wed Sept 22nd I think that in store by fall is going to be pretty damn accurate. It would have been out some time ago if they hadn't been forced to change significant amounts of security related code due to the code theft.
Nah, our smallest client with one has less than 25 employees, biggest a couple hundred. The hardware and software can handle crazy large volume but they aren't really that expensive and work wonders. They can pay for themselves pretty quickly if you have say 50 people wasting a couple minutes a day on spam. And of course for my clients having to not fix just a couple computers with spyware saves them enough on consulting fees that again the unit has paid for itself.
Barracuda Spam Firewalls are so effective that they literally sell themselves. Whenever we have a client who is having spam problems we recomend they do a trial period with a Barracuda, when the trial period is over and we tell them they need to buy it or return it they ALWAYS buy, without exception. It's that good.
Actually MS just releases a new valid license to that company and gives them a tool that allows them to reset the license on all of their PC's via login scripts or group policies. If the second key gets leaked that might cause some problems but generally if you have MS come to you and explain the situation the director of IT will lay down the law and make sure it isn't leaked again. Most people won't risk their job to help out some anonymous copyright violator on the net.
That's why you have an MSDN subscription and have access to the disk images for all of the versions of windows ever made. It's part of the cost of support MS software as a professional.
Huh, a Sony Trinitron 21" Trinitron display goes for around $800 retail, about 1/3rd the price of this display. It's probably twice as bright and has about 10x the contrast ratio. LCD's are great where space is limited or weight is a problem but there's still no way for LCD or plasma to beat a big piece of glass =) Besides the Apple 23" Cinema display supports full native resolution using digital DVI if you have a Dual link card so this unit is not best in class.
That's because the Apple Cinema Display 23" has Dual link, which requires a compatible video card. Without dual link DVI maxes at 1600*1200 digital because that's all the bandwidth there is. Overall I'd say the Apple display is a better bet since it's cheaper and supports Dual link, use it with real speakers and controll the inputs with remotes.
I actually ran a Pentium 133 underclocked to 120 without a heat sink (just bare package) because I couldn't remove the fan from the heatsink it came with and I was building a firewall for a friend when we both had zero cash. The only real power draw was the Bigfoot HDD.
Ironically: SPF is also a good counter to one objection to IM2000 Internet mail, namely that it involves changing the structure of the mail system. If people sending mail and mail hosting companies are clearly willing to accept the massive structural changes that SPF will entail, they will be willing to accept the smaller structural changes that IM2000 Internet mail will entail.
For the VAST majority of sites there is NO structural change to the way they do email. For small companies (those most likely to have problems implmenting a new system) SPF is as simple as entering "v=spf1 mx -all" in a TXT record for their domain, that's IT! Even for a mid sized companie with multiple divisions with a couple mail servers and a couple domains implementing SPF was a 10 minute endevor, hell getting proper reverse DNS setup usually takes me several times that long due to the necessity of beating it into yet another ISP's head that yes the customer should get a valid reverse DNS entry and reverse DNS is MUCH less usefull for fighting spam and viruses.
Well if they controll the DNS for the origional sending domain it is extremely easy to allow the forwarding server to be authenticated for the origional domain. If not then they are doing something which due to spammers is unfortunatly no longer acceptable to most users. As far as changing recieving behavior, no. But I expect that tools like I Hate Spam and Barricuda which many of my clients use will soon support SPF. The best way to use SPF is to just give messages without an SPF record a high starting score on your spam scoring. The main reason I have setup SPF for my clients is that AOL and Yahoo will probably start dropping all email without a valid SPF record soon.
SPF is just as effective as Sender-ID for the general internet and is MUCH easier to implement. I am a consultant for quite a few small non-profits and so far I haven't charged any of them for setting up SPF records since it's generally a 2 minute process to create the record (at the most), and an email or a 2 minute phone call to their DNS provider. Sender-ID would force me to do some actual work which would in turn cost my customers money.
Office XP and Office 2003 ask for the disk (MSI file really) during certain updates (SP's mostly) even if you did a complete install. The answer is to copy the MSI files to the HDD or use a program like Alchohol 120% to mount images of the CD's.
Ah Grashopper, but the house does not need "Broadband Internet" to get digital distribution. All they need is a cable or satelite connection, a digital cable box with HDD, and a little bit of glue to make video on demand the distribution channel of choice. If the cable/satelite companies get wise they will broker deals to allow you to download and keep a digital copy of a movie. The biggest problem is the studios are probably leary to try cutting out the current middle men without there being a proven market for the new technology as such a switch would probably really honk off companies like BlockBuster and Hollywood Video.
Unless they can live with significantly less AC by using the pool when they get hot. Then they are saving so much electricity that they are making the better investment (I know that's probably the minority of the people with pools).
Depends on the kind of switch, a Cisco Layer-3 switch both switches and routes. And on something like a 6509 there is no way you are going to overflow the ARP cache, people run real world networks with ARP tables over 70K entries on a 6509 with no problems. Now a little Linksys switch is easy to overflow, they generally can't learn more than 254 devices before overflowing.
None of them offer a 2 way server with RAID5 which is what we almost always use for our clients. The Dell 2850 with dual Xeon EM64T and RAID-5 is much more capable for general server use than any of the 1-2U systems from those vendors. For some reason the Opteron offerings have either been rack optomized systems or four way monstrosities, they don't hit the midrange where all of our SMB client's needs lie.
Doesn't work all the time, it doesn't fix the fundamental problem, and it shouldn't be necessary. I was really, really pissed when I found out what the problem was. I had thought it was something wrong on the other equipment since I only ever recorded at live gigs with questionable setups (throwing warehouse parties leads to interesting audio setups). I had about 10 live shows recording get screwed up by this stupid bug. Like I said I will never build or own another Via based system.
Exactly, this is a lot like windows roaming profiles and network mounted home directories. All the user settings and files move with the user without the drawbacks of terminal servers (of course it also comes with a lot of the drawbacks of disperse workstations). Combine this with network mounted application directories and you have almost as low of a TCO as terminal servers with the power of individual workstations.
Re:Who would buy intel? Who would use onboard...
on
AMD Desktops Outsell Intel
·
· Score: 3, Interesting
Uh, this is a VERY well known problem with Via 686B Southbridges (among others) and Creative labs soundcards. Neither company knows how to follow the PCI 2.0 or 2.1 spec and so burst data transfers done by the sound card are corrupted. Some Firewire cards also have problems transfering to the iPod for the same reason. The problems were enough to put me off VIA permenantly. I now use SiS chipsets for my AMD systems and have had no problems (I don't need any of the expensive integrated stuff from a NForce board).
Except that the person buying the 3.8Ghz Xeon is buying it for a $5000+ server with a couple gigs of ram and a RAID5 subsystem. They don't care about saving 12% of the system price on a pair of CPU's, if it runs the risk of causing them downtime. Hell I pay a lot more than 12% of the purchase price to upgrade the basic waranty to 24x7 4 hour support to avoid downtime! Now if Dell or HP offered a fully backed AMD system for significantly less than an equivilantly configured Intel one then I would care (HP only offers 2-way systems with 2 drive bays of 4-way with 4 drive bays, neither is apropriate for my clients).
Slashdot Mirror
Try a sales droid/manager or customer retention department if they have one. It costs companies a LOT of money to get new customers so if there is something cheap/free they can do to retain one they often will. If you are really happy with the service it might be worth it to spend 30 minutes or less on the phone trying to get satisfaction. I got double peak airtime minutes and free nights and weekends just by calling AT&T customer retention and telling them I was switching to Verizon if they couldn't get me a better deal.
Have you called/emailed Packet8 to ask them if they would provide you the SIP username/password? If you let them know that the reason you are going to leave is lack of access to this info you may find that they will be accomodating.
Dude get your facts straight, VoIP has ZERO impact on the ability to get a correct 911 entry. Also there is nothing inherint in VoIP->POTS gateways that makes call accounting less usefull, hell it's definitly in the VoIP providers interest to have accurate records so they can bill you so why wouldn't they have good call logging? Come up with some good arguments like more pieces make for inherintly less stable networks, or that voice quality can suck without QoS, etc and I might be with you but putting up straw men is just stupid.
Um, last time I worked on it IOS was built using the Sun compiler chain on Solaris servers. Our local IOS repository was a 16 way SunFire running Rational Clear Case and the compile machine was a 4 way SunFire with faster CPU's running a glued together compile chain. They were working towards supporting GNU toolchain two years ago but it was slow going since the IOS toolchain had always been Solaris based.
Wouldn't be hard if you had a way to get past the firewall of doom (the nickname for the main gateway firewalls at Cisco). Once internal you basically have your typicall soft centered network. The source code is available via NFSv3 mount points that are protected by simple host authnetication with username/password authentication being bypassable. Only the export restricted stuff is really all that locked down and even that wouldn't be that hard to get to for a determined hacker.
This knowledge is now 3 years out of date but I really doubt Cisco has taken major leaps to improve internal security.
Considering that the Fall equinox isn't until Wed Sept 22nd I think that in store by fall is going to be pretty damn accurate. It would have been out some time ago if they hadn't been forced to change significant amounts of security related code due to the code theft.
Nah, our smallest client with one has less than 25 employees, biggest a couple hundred. The hardware and software can handle crazy large volume but they aren't really that expensive and work wonders. They can pay for themselves pretty quickly if you have say 50 people wasting a couple minutes a day on spam. And of course for my clients having to not fix just a couple computers with spyware saves them enough on consulting fees that again the unit has paid for itself.
Barracuda Spam Firewalls are so effective that they literally sell themselves. Whenever we have a client who is having spam problems we recomend they do a trial period with a Barracuda, when the trial period is over and we tell them they need to buy it or return it they ALWAYS buy, without exception. It's that good.
Actually MS just releases a new valid license to that company and gives them a tool that allows them to reset the license on all of their PC's via login scripts or group policies. If the second key gets leaked that might cause some problems but generally if you have MS come to you and explain the situation the director of IT will lay down the law and make sure it isn't leaked again. Most people won't risk their job to help out some anonymous copyright violator on the net.
That's why you have an MSDN subscription and have access to the disk images for all of the versions of windows ever made. It's part of the cost of support MS software as a professional.
Huh, a Sony Trinitron 21" Trinitron display goes for around $800 retail, about 1/3rd the price of this display. It's probably twice as bright and has about 10x the contrast ratio. LCD's are great where space is limited or weight is a problem but there's still no way for LCD or plasma to beat a big piece of glass =) Besides the Apple 23" Cinema display supports full native resolution using digital DVI if you have a Dual link card so this unit is not best in class.
That's because the Apple Cinema Display 23" has Dual link, which requires a compatible video card. Without dual link DVI maxes at 1600*1200 digital because that's all the bandwidth there is. Overall I'd say the Apple display is a better bet since it's cheaper and supports Dual link, use it with real speakers and controll the inputs with remotes.
I actually ran a Pentium 133 underclocked to 120 without a heat sink (just bare package) because I couldn't remove the fan from the heatsink it came with and I was building a firewall for a friend when we both had zero cash. The only real power draw was the Bigfoot HDD.
His first major premise is pure BS.
Ironically: SPF is also a good counter to one objection to IM2000 Internet mail, namely that it involves changing the structure of the mail system. If people sending mail and mail hosting companies are clearly willing to accept the massive structural changes that SPF will entail, they will be willing to accept the smaller structural changes that IM2000 Internet mail will entail.
For the VAST majority of sites there is NO structural change to the way they do email. For small companies (those most likely to have problems implmenting a new system) SPF is as simple as entering "v=spf1 mx -all" in a TXT record for their domain, that's IT! Even for a mid sized companie with multiple divisions with a couple mail servers and a couple domains implementing SPF was a 10 minute endevor, hell getting proper reverse DNS setup usually takes me several times that long due to the necessity of beating it into yet another ISP's head that yes the customer should get a valid reverse DNS entry and reverse DNS is MUCH less usefull for fighting spam and viruses.
Well if they controll the DNS for the origional sending domain it is extremely easy to allow the forwarding server to be authenticated for the origional domain. If not then they are doing something which due to spammers is unfortunatly no longer acceptable to most users. As far as changing recieving behavior, no. But I expect that tools like I Hate Spam and Barricuda which many of my clients use will soon support SPF. The best way to use SPF is to just give messages without an SPF record a high starting score on your spam scoring. The main reason I have setup SPF for my clients is that AOL and Yahoo will probably start dropping all email without a valid SPF record soon.
SPF is just as effective as Sender-ID for the general internet and is MUCH easier to implement. I am a consultant for quite a few small non-profits and so far I haven't charged any of them for setting up SPF records since it's generally a 2 minute process to create the record (at the most), and an email or a 2 minute phone call to their DNS provider. Sender-ID would force me to do some actual work which would in turn cost my customers money.
Office XP and Office 2003 ask for the disk (MSI file really) during certain updates (SP's mostly) even if you did a complete install. The answer is to copy the MSI files to the HDD or use a program like Alchohol 120% to mount images of the CD's.
Ah Grashopper, but the house does not need "Broadband Internet" to get digital distribution. All they need is a cable or satelite connection, a digital cable box with HDD, and a little bit of glue to make video on demand the distribution channel of choice. If the cable/satelite companies get wise they will broker deals to allow you to download and keep a digital copy of a movie. The biggest problem is the studios are probably leary to try cutting out the current middle men without there being a proven market for the new technology as such a switch would probably really honk off companies like BlockBuster and Hollywood Video.
Unless they can live with significantly less AC by using the pool when they get hot. Then they are saving so much electricity that they are making the better investment (I know that's probably the minority of the people with pools).
Depends on the kind of switch, a Cisco Layer-3 switch both switches and routes. And on something like a 6509 there is no way you are going to overflow the ARP cache, people run real world networks with ARP tables over 70K entries on a 6509 with no problems. Now a little Linksys switch is easy to overflow, they generally can't learn more than 254 devices before overflowing.
None of them offer a 2 way server with RAID5 which is what we almost always use for our clients. The Dell 2850 with dual Xeon EM64T and RAID-5 is much more capable for general server use than any of the 1-2U systems from those vendors. For some reason the Opteron offerings have either been rack optomized systems or four way monstrosities, they don't hit the midrange where all of our SMB client's needs lie.
Doesn't work all the time, it doesn't fix the fundamental problem, and it shouldn't be necessary. I was really, really pissed when I found out what the problem was. I had thought it was something wrong on the other equipment since I only ever recorded at live gigs with questionable setups (throwing warehouse parties leads to interesting audio setups). I had about 10 live shows recording get screwed up by this stupid bug. Like I said I will never build or own another Via based system.
Exactly, this is a lot like windows roaming profiles and network mounted home directories. All the user settings and files move with the user without the drawbacks of terminal servers (of course it also comes with a lot of the drawbacks of disperse workstations). Combine this with network mounted application directories and you have almost as low of a TCO as terminal servers with the power of individual workstations.
Uh, this is a VERY well known problem with Via 686B Southbridges (among others) and Creative labs soundcards. Neither company knows how to follow the PCI 2.0 or 2.1 spec and so burst data transfers done by the sound card are corrupted. Some Firewire cards also have problems transfering to the iPod for the same reason. The problems were enough to put me off VIA permenantly. I now use SiS chipsets for my AMD systems and have had no problems (I don't need any of the expensive integrated stuff from a NForce board).
Except that the person buying the 3.8Ghz Xeon is buying it for a $5000+ server with a couple gigs of ram and a RAID5 subsystem. They don't care about saving 12% of the system price on a pair of CPU's, if it runs the risk of causing them downtime. Hell I pay a lot more than 12% of the purchase price to upgrade the basic waranty to 24x7 4 hour support to avoid downtime! Now if Dell or HP offered a fully backed AMD system for significantly less than an equivilantly configured Intel one then I would care (HP only offers 2-way systems with 2 drive bays of 4-way with 4 drive bays, neither is apropriate for my clients).