I have been using Vonage over a cable modem for about 4 months now. I definitely must say that people's voices are louder and clearer than they were with SBC. It's even made it so my crap ass Uniden phone is worth talking on again. The only time I've dropped a call in that time was when I tried to hard code my IP address (I'm on the DHCP plan but thought if they ping before offering I could keep my address forever) and Comcast decided to change my entire subnet. Bastards. But Vonage has been excellent.
Are you familiar with the term editorial ? I don't think it really matters if his opinion shows up at the top or down with the rest of the comments - either way we know it's his opinion, right?
There's a big difference between companies putting backdoors in their products and a virus opening one up (you expect a company to treat you with a certain amount of respect being their customer and the virus you expect to screw you). Could this be used for harm? Well yeah that's what the virus coder was already intending. I don't think this is a huge issue since the infected machines are retrieving this file and it is only cleaning the virus, nothing else (or so I assume).
If they were actively probing for machines or collecting and data then they should be shot. Otherwise this is a good way to handle it.
For those of us that run web servers you'll notice that Code Red is still alive and well. Something like this would have been great for cleaning that up.
Sun went after IBM because it is pushing Linux harder than any other major player. Sun has lost big sales due to companies moving to Linux. They know this and know that IBM's Linux servers big and small are sucking up their market share.
My company recently benchmarked an IBM x330 (I know completely different servers than this aricle) against a Sunfire 3800 running ASIC design jobs. The Linux machines were 200% faster and we could buy 60 for the price of 1 Sunfire fully loaded. Sun's top engineers came in to tweak things for us to make it competitive. They couldn't. That's a half million dollar deal that they know that IBM won and they lost.
I'm sure were many other customers are seeing the bang for the buck advantage of Linux servers.
But what does this matter to the z class? Now we are more likely to puchase a z class for high end since most code devoloped on the x class machines will compile easily on the z. More money out of Sun's pocket.
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I have been using Vonage over a cable modem for about 4 months now. I definitely must say that people's voices are louder and clearer than they were with SBC. It's even made it so my crap ass Uniden phone is worth talking on again. The only time I've dropped a call in that time was when I tried to hard code my IP address (I'm on the DHCP plan but thought if they ping before offering I could keep my address forever) and Comcast decided to change my entire subnet. Bastards. But Vonage has been excellent.
Are you familiar with the term editorial ? I don't think it really matters if his opinion shows up at the top or down with the rest of the comments - either way we know it's his opinion, right?
If they were actively probing for machines or collecting and data then they should be shot. Otherwise this is a good way to handle it. For those of us that run web servers you'll notice that Code Red is still alive and well. Something like this would have been great for cleaning that up.
My company recently benchmarked an IBM x330 (I know completely different servers than this aricle) against a Sunfire 3800 running ASIC design jobs. The Linux machines were 200% faster and we could buy 60 for the price of 1 Sunfire fully loaded. Sun's top engineers came in to tweak things for us to make it competitive. They couldn't. That's a half million dollar deal that they know that IBM won and they lost.
I'm sure were many other customers are seeing the bang for the buck advantage of Linux servers.
But what does this matter to the z class? Now we are more likely to puchase a z class for high end since most code devoloped on the x class machines will compile easily on the z. More money out of Sun's pocket.