We had always worried about this on University housing networks. You're pretty much guaranteed that every user is a Myspace user. Better yet once you main in the middle the myspace login / pw chances are it just gave away their e-mail login too. Login: bob@gmail.com PW: bob420 probably goes to that gmail account too. From there you can reset any account you see in his Gmail account. Myspace really turns into a giant weakness of the Internet.
ATT you want to see what will make me pay $50 a month for my Internet from the cable company? Start filtering and I'll drop your crappy $20 DSL that day.
I'm sure there's many thousands of businesses out there that have upgraded their 4500/6500 series with new modules. Say you have a 6509 with a Supervisor 1A (insert any other supervisor here) and a bunch of 48 port 10/100 modules. You need a really high end switch now capable of a lot more in the way of packets per second routed between VLANs and you want 10/100/1000 and POE for capable clients. What are you to do? Throw away your 6509? All you're going to do is buy another 6509, but this time it'll have the modules you need. If you need gig you buy gig modules. If you need more routing capacity your go buy a Sup720 or whatever else you want.
There's a lot new in the 1250. A lot more than 802.11n. First off because it's 802.11n you're getting MIMO which is going to benefit your existing B and G users. You're also getting a gig uplink port, which you're going to need now. You also get modular wifi cards. That last one is the important part. My university just deployed about 100 access points, and to replace them now we have to go swap the entire units. It would be a lot simpler and cheaper to just swap the radios. Beyond just saving money not having to replace the entire unit you save no having to pay someone to take the time to swap the entire unit our including the mounting hardware and then reconfigure the unit. If Cisco follows through and uses the 1250 as a real platform similar to the catalyst line, then customers have a lot to gain.
You're saying that people shouldn't buy Macs in the corporate arena because they have non-standard hardware that isn't playing nicely with Ubuntu. I'm subscribed to the laptop related Ubuntu bugs. The bugs I see the most are related to the last few generations of IBM laptops. These are classic corporate laptops, yet they don't have that great of support in Linux at the moment. Doesn't seem to be stopping anyone.
As a student of Humboldt State (where you pulled that link from): Most students and staff thought Blackboard was a giant pile of dog shit (which is really is). Looks like crap, runs like crap, and has pretty poor compatibility. We've been migrated over to Moodle (open source) for the last few years and are finally ditching Blackboard at the end of this semester. I doubt anyone will miss it. Certainly not the people the cut the yearly check for the app.
Norton has (particularly Internet Security from around 2004/2005) have a really hard time removing themselves. It seems like LiveUpdate changes the files and doesn't update the uninstaller. It's pretty pathetic of such a major company. The problem is so widespread that Symantec developed a removal too available on their website that searches for all of their recent products and wipes them off your hard drive. I like to run it after any Norton uninstall because they never go smoothly. I've worked at a University help desk for the last few years and the #1 thing I do is take Norton off computers. The stuff is just garbage. AVG always seems to find viruses on machines that have been protected and checked out fine with Norton and it doesn't slow a brand new machine to a crawl. I'd say I'm at about 500-700 Norton / McAfee removals so far. Perhaps more.
LiveUpdate only updates the defs for Corporate, but you can easily deploy updates via Active Directory. Corporate is the only good product that Symantec makes. I admined 300+ seats of it. Granted Turner has more than 300 seats, but it took me about 10 minutes to get my 300 seats updated. They have no excuse. Someone wasn't on top of this.
That's funny because last time I went to the Home Depot 1/3 of the bulbs have covers to make them look like standard lights. They even have ones that fit into the very small outlets in some bathroom vanity lights. I have about a dozen of these covered lights in my house so they don't show in the fancier lights. They look fine.
The VX was tiny and was gutless. You can't compare a car from that era to a new car complete with side airbags and the rest of the amenities (did you even pay extra for the air conditioning on the VX?)
You're assuming you can wire for Gig Ethernet. Many people out there have extensive installations that barely work with 100mbit. For instance the building I'm in was built in 1992 and wired for Ethernet EXCEPT (a big except) the installers stables the cabling the studs. Won't make it above 10meg and even 10 meg has errors left and right. The building had to be rewired so we could go 100Mbit, but that's 500 drops in 4 different structures with 4 wiring closets to pull back to. Stuff like this is a big deal for colleges. There's plenty of colleges that only have their internal phone lines the the rooms and are delivering internet connections via DSL technology from their closets. Schools with 2000 students on campus and sometimes in buildings on the historic registry. They REALLY want to be able to use that existing infrastructure to deliver a high speed connection.
I'm really impressed by 6 year old blurry black and white photos where Google gives me fairly recent photos at about 3X the resolution in color. I live in the cuts, but it's not that bad.
Arcata, CA
It's not backwards compatible and this breaks a lot of Intranet sites. My Univerity (shitty Humboldt State University in CA) uses a system (being phases out) called Banner for managing class registration, payments and just about everything else you could imagine. There's been lots of problems in the latest and greatest banner with IE 7. It's going to be very interesting to see if these problems cause any large scale issues come registration time. There's also been issues with Universities not using the latest and greatest version of Cisco's Clean Access network management software. Any student with IE 7 installed are unable to gain access to the Internet at school's employing those version of Clean Access. That's been lots of fun as admins at those schools are creating exceptions left and right and at this point are probably just turning Clean Access off until they can deploy the latest version. Wells Fargo isn't working with IE 7. I had a wonderful conversation with a buddy of mine that works at their online banking call center. She wants to kill Microsoft right now. There are plenty of problems all over the place.
Deep freeze is the greatest program ever. You will stop spending hours reimaging machines as they die. Set the machines to logout and re-image on a time schedule and they'll always be fresh. We use it at my University and we never touch the machines. If it wasn't for security updates we could reimage every few years.
You really get a nice band for your buck with A in a crowded area. Dorms or big cities are full of B/G devices hogging up the spectrum. Switch to A and watch your real world speeds jump up quite a bit. It works like a charm in my apartment.
That would work except nuclear power costs more per kilowatt than any other power source except small scale solar once you factor in state and federal subsidies on the industry including cleanup and research dollars. If you build more power plants you're just moving the bill from your electrical bill to your tax bill.
I hope you understand what a lot of those chips really are. They're just "better" fuel maps where better means more gas. More gas means more unburnt gas. I've chipped my car before and made the mistake of smogging it with the pattern on. It won't pass. They're illegal for a reason. If Ford GM Honda Toyota could give you 20+ more HP without any side effect they would do it. The side effect is shitty mpg and increased emissions.
A) It's really not based on Knoppix. Cecil (the maintainer) uses the Knoppix scripts a bit for hardware detection, but the whole thing is custom. It's Knoppix in name only as he says. It's really just a custom Debian Sid distro.
B)The next major stable release of Knoppmyth is going to be based on Ubuntu so that it will have better hardware support and be easier to maintain.
Get a knoppmyth CD and install the second box as a front end. Once you comment out the "skip networking" line in mysql it will allow outside connections to your box. From there the front end just connects and does it's business.
http://www.mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html
ivtv is evil to get working on your box. As is lirc and the other 7000 packages you need for a good MythTV box. I tried building a box based on Ubuntu and gave up a few days later. Get KnoppMyth. It automates the entire process.
http://www.mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html
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We had always worried about this on University housing networks. You're pretty much guaranteed that every user is a Myspace user. Better yet once you main in the middle the myspace login / pw chances are it just gave away their e-mail login too. Login: bob@gmail.com PW: bob420 probably goes to that gmail account too. From there you can reset any account you see in his Gmail account. Myspace really turns into a giant weakness of the Internet.
ATT you want to see what will make me pay $50 a month for my Internet from the cable company? Start filtering and I'll drop your crappy $20 DSL that day.
I'm sure there's many thousands of businesses out there that have upgraded their 4500/6500 series with new modules. Say you have a 6509 with a Supervisor 1A (insert any other supervisor here) and a bunch of 48 port 10/100 modules. You need a really high end switch now capable of a lot more in the way of packets per second routed between VLANs and you want 10/100/1000 and POE for capable clients. What are you to do? Throw away your 6509? All you're going to do is buy another 6509, but this time it'll have the modules you need. If you need gig you buy gig modules. If you need more routing capacity your go buy a Sup720 or whatever else you want.
There's a lot new in the 1250. A lot more than 802.11n. First off because it's 802.11n you're getting MIMO which is going to benefit your existing B and G users. You're also getting a gig uplink port, which you're going to need now. You also get modular wifi cards. That last one is the important part. My university just deployed about 100 access points, and to replace them now we have to go swap the entire units. It would be a lot simpler and cheaper to just swap the radios. Beyond just saving money not having to replace the entire unit you save no having to pay someone to take the time to swap the entire unit our including the mounting hardware and then reconfigure the unit. If Cisco follows through and uses the 1250 as a real platform similar to the catalyst line, then customers have a lot to gain.
You're saying that people shouldn't buy Macs in the corporate arena because they have non-standard hardware that isn't playing nicely with Ubuntu. I'm subscribed to the laptop related Ubuntu bugs. The bugs I see the most are related to the last few generations of IBM laptops. These are classic corporate laptops, yet they don't have that great of support in Linux at the moment. Doesn't seem to be stopping anyone.
As a student of Humboldt State (where you pulled that link from): Most students and staff thought Blackboard was a giant pile of dog shit (which is really is). Looks like crap, runs like crap, and has pretty poor compatibility. We've been migrated over to Moodle (open source) for the last few years and are finally ditching Blackboard at the end of this semester. I doubt anyone will miss it. Certainly not the people the cut the yearly check for the app.
Pay the 1.825 million a year fine or just drop Connecticut?
Norton has (particularly Internet Security from around 2004/2005) have a really hard time removing themselves. It seems like LiveUpdate changes the files and doesn't update the uninstaller. It's pretty pathetic of such a major company. The problem is so widespread that Symantec developed a removal too available on their website that searches for all of their recent products and wipes them off your hard drive. I like to run it after any Norton uninstall because they never go smoothly. I've worked at a University help desk for the last few years and the #1 thing I do is take Norton off computers. The stuff is just garbage. AVG always seems to find viruses on machines that have been protected and checked out fine with Norton and it doesn't slow a brand new machine to a crawl. I'd say I'm at about 500-700 Norton / McAfee removals so far. Perhaps more.
LiveUpdate only updates the defs for Corporate, but you can easily deploy updates via Active Directory. Corporate is the only good product that Symantec makes. I admined 300+ seats of it. Granted Turner has more than 300 seats, but it took me about 10 minutes to get my 300 seats updated. They have no excuse. Someone wasn't on top of this.
That's funny because last time I went to the Home Depot 1/3 of the bulbs have covers to make them look like standard lights. They even have ones that fit into the very small outlets in some bathroom vanity lights. I have about a dozen of these covered lights in my house so they don't show in the fancier lights. They look fine.
The VX was tiny and was gutless. You can't compare a car from that era to a new car complete with side airbags and the rest of the amenities (did you even pay extra for the air conditioning on the VX?)
The standard branch is still at .19 with fixes. Tester branch is .20. Sign up to be a tester.
It seems a like a lot of what this NIC claims to do (offloading TCP work such as checksumming and segmentation) can be done by an Intel NIC on Windows and Linux (2.6.19 and up at least). So go get a gig Intel NIC for the $35 and invest the rest in a new mouse pad or something that might actually impact your gaming a bit more than that silly nic. http://shopping.yahoo.com/p:Intel%20PRO%2F1000%20P T%20Desktop%20Adapter:1993037566;_ylt=Apu.Yd0SJ9f3 4z.56feYYLIbFt0A;_ylu=X3oDMTBic2hxMGNhBGx0AzQEc2Vj A3Ny?clink=dmps/intel_pro.2f.1000_pt/ctx=mid:5,pid :1993037566,pdid:5,pos:2,spc:14489115,date:2006120 9,srch:kw,x:
You're assuming you can wire for Gig Ethernet. Many people out there have extensive installations that barely work with 100mbit. For instance the building I'm in was built in 1992 and wired for Ethernet EXCEPT (a big except) the installers stables the cabling the studs. Won't make it above 10meg and even 10 meg has errors left and right. The building had to be rewired so we could go 100Mbit, but that's 500 drops in 4 different structures with 4 wiring closets to pull back to. Stuff like this is a big deal for colleges. There's plenty of colleges that only have their internal phone lines the the rooms and are delivering internet connections via DSL technology from their closets. Schools with 2000 students on campus and sometimes in buildings on the historic registry. They REALLY want to be able to use that existing infrastructure to deliver a high speed connection.
I'm really impressed by 6 year old blurry black and white photos where Google gives me fairly recent photos at about 3X the resolution in color. I live in the cuts, but it's not that bad. Arcata, CA
It's not backwards compatible and this breaks a lot of Intranet sites. My Univerity (shitty Humboldt State University in CA) uses a system (being phases out) called Banner for managing class registration, payments and just about everything else you could imagine. There's been lots of problems in the latest and greatest banner with IE 7. It's going to be very interesting to see if these problems cause any large scale issues come registration time. There's also been issues with Universities not using the latest and greatest version of Cisco's Clean Access network management software. Any student with IE 7 installed are unable to gain access to the Internet at school's employing those version of Clean Access. That's been lots of fun as admins at those schools are creating exceptions left and right and at this point are probably just turning Clean Access off until they can deploy the latest version. Wells Fargo isn't working with IE 7. I had a wonderful conversation with a buddy of mine that works at their online banking call center. She wants to kill Microsoft right now. There are plenty of problems all over the place.
Deep freeze is the greatest program ever. You will stop spending hours reimaging machines as they die. Set the machines to logout and re-image on a time schedule and they'll always be fresh. We use it at my University and we never touch the machines. If it wasn't for security updates we could reimage every few years.
It'll be out in the November patch day even though IE 7 comes out in October. That's where all this confusion is coming from.
You really get a nice band for your buck with A in a crowded area. Dorms or big cities are full of B/G devices hogging up the spectrum. Switch to A and watch your real world speeds jump up quite a bit. It works like a charm in my apartment.
That would work except nuclear power costs more per kilowatt than any other power source except small scale solar once you factor in state and federal subsidies on the industry including cleanup and research dollars. If you build more power plants you're just moving the bill from your electrical bill to your tax bill.
I hope you understand what a lot of those chips really are. They're just "better" fuel maps where better means more gas. More gas means more unburnt gas. I've chipped my car before and made the mistake of smogging it with the pattern on. It won't pass. They're illegal for a reason. If Ford GM Honda Toyota could give you 20+ more HP without any side effect they would do it. The side effect is shitty mpg and increased emissions.
A) It's really not based on Knoppix. Cecil (the maintainer) uses the Knoppix scripts a bit for hardware detection, but the whole thing is custom. It's Knoppix in name only as he says. It's really just a custom Debian Sid distro. B)The next major stable release of Knoppmyth is going to be based on Ubuntu so that it will have better hardware support and be easier to maintain.
Get a knoppmyth CD and install the second box as a front end. Once you comment out the "skip networking" line in mysql it will allow outside connections to your box. From there the front end just connects and does it's business. http://www.mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html
There are a few companies out there offering solutions on a small scale. Not the best deal, but if you want support you pay for support. https://monolithmc.com/catalog.php http://mythic.tv/product_info.php?cPath=21_29&prod ucts_id=44&osCsid=1adfce851bdfddf0bd199eded2ddf5eb
Personally I'd just build my own on KnoppMyth and be done with it, but whatever floats your boat.
ivtv is evil to get working on your box. As is lirc and the other 7000 packages you need for a good MythTV box. I tried building a box based on Ubuntu and gave up a few days later. Get KnoppMyth. It automates the entire process. http://www.mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html