There's Openswitch: http://www.openswitch.net/ but I don't think the hardware is open. The example at LinuxCon was an Accton switch, controlled by OpenSwitch running on an embedded board.
I surely hope the average American has at least 1.0195 testicle more than you say. 1.9995 testicle seems a good number even though a lady friend of mine says the real value is 1.982142 based upon a spot check.
And by "Exchange" I mean software that provides all the functionality of Exchange beyond simple email. Calendar and contact management; synchronization of mailbox folders, calendar, contacts with mobile devices; user specific server side email processing rules; replication of mailboxes (email databases) for high availability; security model that allows administrative assistant and other delegations; etc.
That would be Zimbra. It has all of that except *maybe* "mailbox replication for HA", which is either useless (run it off DR-enabled VMs running on a replicated SAN) or in the future "cloud" version.
Once you've set up all your kids and family and (other) loved ones and ensured yourself a permanent comfortable income, invest where you want to make a difference : computing, politics, health. Your health... if I had so much money that I have to ask for ways to spend it, my second question would be how to make reasonably ensure I get a lot of time to spend it in. Money can't buy time, but maybe *lots* of money could? Peter F Hamilton, here I come!
If I had the capital, I'd likely set up a small company to do software development that interested me, and which would also be either useful to others (purely philanthropic) or would have some commercial demand too.
I seriously feel that one could revolutionize computing by applying capability theory to it (think KeyKOS / EROS / Coyotos / CapROS). I know that if I sometime needed or just wanted a computer in my eye or ear or something, something I had to trust, then that would be it.
I dunno, I make [100k] in NYC. I have an awesome decently spaced (700 sqft) 1br apartment [...] Anyone who doesn't think 100k in NYC is not only doing well but is damn well luxury has a lack of perspective and is completely, 100% out of fucking touch.
Hmmm. 100k. Add in wife and two or even three kids (2br, 3br, 4br apt?) Suddenly maybe 100k seems a bit low... it's all about your expectations! Personally, I've run the numbers and decided that 100k would be enough to make me move the family to NYC, but maybe I'm optimistic.
Seeing what you want from life, I'd recommend simply moving to a country with a permissive view on prostitution. It would probably be much less expensive than rolling your own (recommend firing those unworthy instead of "destroying" them, though).
My wife and I have unlimited phone/4G Data/texting, plus 5gb hotspot data apiece, for a total of $100/month through T-Mobile. If US was really that bad, why the need to make shit up?
Assuming that's a total of $100/month for two people, it still seems three times as expensive as (the cheapest and best provider) in France, 16 or 20 €/month for unlimited everything (you get 4€ off if you're also a broadband client). What's with the 5GB hotspot data if you have unlimited 4G data, does that mean you only have unlimited if it's 4G and not if it's 3G or Edge?
Not 1950's, but in my office there is a box of punch cards. On their edges[1] are written the monikers of different computer programs that still run today.
[1] You may know, or might like to know, that people used to write literally on the edges of the cards, like you would if you closed a book and wrote on the side opposite the binding. Not only did it make it easy to identify the dozen(s) of cards of your program in the box of hundreds, but also made it easy (easier) to sort them if you happened to spill them on the floor -- or if the car transporting your code to another site happened to roll over in a highway ditch, which allegedly did happen.
Working on Cisco command line, I was in the habit of typing "no " and doing a double-click-middle-click on the line I wanted to delete. Worked very well except for (IIRC)
In this specific copying the entire line after "no " does not remove the line, it just removes the route-map limitation, and hey presto I was redistributing our full BGP into OSP. Clincher was that it took some 20 minutes for the network to actually stop working, so bu that time I had totally forgotten about it. It took an hour to find out what the problem was and to correct it, during which my ISP was basically of the network.
Also turn off your antivirus software. Sometimes it gets in the way of the Internet.
</sarcasm>
Uhhhhh . . . I thought the same way you do. That's the only time I was wrong calling ISP tech support. I called to say that the new WiFi USB key (this was a few years ago) that I'd bought for my mother would get recognized, would connect and get DHCP but nothing more, so the problem was obviously on the router end. The first thing the tech asked was for me to turn off the antivirus. I fudged and said sure, ok... it's off... still doesn't work. The tech then quickly walked me through a series of lengthy MS-prefixed DOS-mode commands, and hey presto, no more problem. I asked what he'd done. He said he'd turned off my anti-virus. The driver for the big-name USB WiFi key wasn't signed, so Norton interfered with it. I told my Ma to buy another antivirus. The tech support was good (this was the guy who first picked up the phone), but sorry for most of you, it wasn't in the U.S. (it was French Orange). They'd got better since the day they told a friend of mine to restart Internet Explorer after he told them he'd diagnosed a failed route in their peering exchange.
And that is not the time when I installed a totally clean computer for my aunt who'd provided me with original CDs of Windows, Norton, et al., connected it to the Net, and the first popup was "Norton has detected that your system is trying to access the Internet, recommend Accept". I wondered what it could be, so I clicked for the details, and the packet in question was "incoming to port 135" from an IP somewhere in Africa.
I noticed there is a bit more perceived hostility when dealing with "text chat" support than over the phone.
Depends on if it is a real person. I've tried to use chat support on several occasions with different companies, and each time I've started out writing four or five sentences that outline my problem, what I've done to resolve it, what happened. I've *been* T3 support, after all. Every single time, the descendant of Eliza chatting with me started out asking me to confirm the nature of my problem, and continued asking me one by one the exact questions which I'd already addressed the very first time I hit Send. It is only when they have arrived at wit's end that a human (sometimes) steps in.
told me that his job was only partially to tell me what to do (because I should know most of it) and mostly to shield me from the bureaucrap so that I could concentrate on doing it. I try to emulate that.
Two other nuggets I aim for:
- a good manager tells his people what *his* objectives are, and explains to them how that translates into the objectives he's giving them.
- there are different kinds of management for different people, and a good manager must adapt. A newbie or an incompetent *needs* micromanaging (but beware of giving the impression of thinking either one is incompetent). As they get older/wiser/more experienced the manager can go more and more hands-off, until with a senior engineer/whatever the manager should be able to just discuss strategy and budget and priorities and such.
Terminate half the wires to one jack and half to the other.
You shouldn't even need to do that. I set up a simple patch panel of female ethernet connectors in my wiring closet, each connected to the female ethernet connectors all over the house. My POTS line comes into that wiring closet (well, my DSL line does, and my box has an RJ11 POTS connector). Plug the phone's RJ11 into the RJ45 where you want the telephone (yes, male RJ11 plugs into female RJ45 by design), find a male-male RJ11 to connect the corresponding patch panel RJ45 to the RJ11 POTS line, and bingo you can have your POTS telephone wherever you thought to place an ethernet outlet.
You probably want to avoid messing up connections between ethernet and POTS though. I've done it without ill effects, but no one phoned me during the time it was misplugged.
Now that I've wasted the mod point I awarded here before posting, some other tips, not all cool new tech:
- some place with ethernet that you can have a noisy server. Servers aren't that noisy any more, but I've had to junk one supposedly silent server because the power unit emitted a very annoying high-pitched whine, and cheap hard disks still make noise. This could be the wiring closet, but not necessarily.
- there's a (maybe European) quality of cable called "grade 3" that is better than cat6 (cat6e?) in that you can wire a satellite (coax) signal directly to it.
- if you use contractors, watch them. Every day. Get them used to the idea that they can ask you things. I put double RJ45 outlets in a lot of places, but the only place I really wanted two was where I was putting the television. Guess where the cabling guy decided on his own to only put a single because the patch panel had one hole less than needed?
- if you use contractors, watch them even more than that. I have a friend who used to change out of business work clothes into worker's coveralls in order to walk around his future house every evening. One evening he sees something bad (ISTR isolation) and calls it to the attention of the guy working nearby. The reply was "Oh yeah I know I messed up but it's too much work to correct, it'll be covered by drywall, the owner will never know".
- why not run cable to the fridge? To somewhere you might want a (PoE) surveillance camera? Wifi repeater?
- battery-powered doorbells suck.
- easily accessible storage space for things like vacuum cleaner, mop, dry food, clothes
- BTW, central vacuum cleaning, but storage is good anyway.
- I put washing and drying machines on the bedroom floor instead of basement or kitchen. No more carrying dirty clothing up and down stairs, but YMMV if your sleep patterns might clash with the noise. BTW, drying machines are better and cheaper if they have a hole to the outside.
- depending on your local weather, DFV (double-flow ventilation) with heat exchange so you don't lose heat, and cheaper electricity and heating mentioned by others
- Kitchen: granite desktop. Draw-out trash can just underneath so you can just sweep peelings from the working area directly into the trash can. Dishwasher a foot or two above the usual level so you don't have to bend (you put your hand in the dishwasher a lot more often than in the oven, and kids can fall on the upwards-pointing knives in a dishwasher just like they can burn their hands on an oven). Power plugs for kitchen appliances of course, maybe ethernet?
- going to have animals? Where are you putting their food, will you shut up the dog during the night and if so where, do you need a cat door, etc.
Lots more of course, I have often heard that that the house you get perfect is the third one you build!
I'm only wasting one mod point here: OK, separate the toilet from the bathroom, perfect, but don't forget to put in a a sink for washing hands beside the toilet. It costs next to nothing and there are slim models that do not take up much space. I have two bathrooms with sink, two toilets with sink. Even with a family of four, I find it's a minimum.
Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR, in other words "Space War") had a problem fulfilling The Next Generation Enterprise Network (NGEN) contract? I think the Navy Trekkies are in control of the acronym office!
Their products are uniformly flimsy, ugly and poorly constructed. It's truly more expensive to support these cheap things than to pay the difference for something of average or good quality.
THIS THIS THIS. I'm typing on an Acer laptop right now. The price was good, the specs were good, and it sure looks nice... But the touchpad is way too sensitive, the keyboard is flimsy, and the screws holding it together started falling out the moment I took it out of the box.
I've got a mobile phone too, same thing, the engineering and quality control is quite simply bad.
The tablet is doubtless cool! Restricting oneself to available hardware, the doctor could have a mike inside the suit, and the assistant could then easily take dictation outside.
I've run without AdBlock since forever, because hey the guys running the content get money that way, and sometimes the ads are useful, sometimes I click, and sometimes I've even bought... but just this week I encountered an ad by Essilor that just wouldn't shut up, with the useless AdChoices button but without the X to get rid of it. I closed the page, installed Adblock, went back to finish the page. Three days later I am definitely not missing all those ads!
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There's Openswitch: http://www.openswitch.net/ but I don't think the hardware is open. The example at LinuxCon was an Accton switch, controlled by OpenSwitch running on an embedded board.
The average American has 0.98 Testicles.
I surely hope the average American has at least 1.0195 testicle more than you say. 1.9995 testicle seems a good number even though a lady friend of mine says the real value is 1.982142 based upon a spot check.
And by "Exchange" I mean software that provides all the functionality of Exchange beyond simple email. Calendar and contact management; synchronization of mailbox folders, calendar, contacts with mobile devices; user specific server side email processing rules; replication of mailboxes (email databases) for high availability; security model that allows administrative assistant and other delegations; etc.
That would be Zimbra. It has all of that except *maybe* "mailbox replication for HA", which is either useless (run it off DR-enabled VMs running on a replicated SAN) or in the future "cloud" version.
Once you've set up all your kids and family and (other) loved ones and ensured yourself a permanent comfortable income, invest where you want to make a difference : computing, politics, health. Your health... if I had so much money that I have to ask for ways to spend it, my second question would be how to make reasonably ensure I get a lot of time to spend it in. Money can't buy time, but maybe *lots* of money could? Peter F Hamilton, here I come!
If I had the capital, I'd likely set up a small company to do software development that interested me, and which would also be either useful to others (purely philanthropic) or would have some commercial demand too.
I seriously feel that one could revolutionize computing by applying capability theory to it (think KeyKOS / EROS / Coyotos / CapROS). I know that if I sometime needed or just wanted a computer in my eye or ear or something, something I had to trust, then that would be it.
I dunno, I make [100k] in NYC. I have an awesome decently spaced (700 sqft) 1br apartment [...] Anyone who doesn't think 100k in NYC is not only doing well but is damn well luxury has a lack of perspective and is completely, 100% out of fucking touch.
Hmmm. 100k. Add in wife and two or even three kids (2br, 3br, 4br apt?) Suddenly maybe 100k seems a bit low... it's all about your expectations! Personally, I've run the numbers and decided that 100k would be enough to make me move the family to NYC, but maybe I'm optimistic.
I average 13% or so with my "play" account [...] has significantly less than 50M in it
Money breeds money :) The problem is getting up on the wave, after that the wave just grows unless you spectacularly lose your footing.
I'd buy an island and make a nation out of it.
Back to the drawing board my friend:
http://worldbuilding.stackexch...
http://www.worldislandinfo.com...
Seeing what you want from life, I'd recommend simply moving to a country with a permissive view on prostitution. It would probably be much less expensive than rolling your own (recommend firing those unworthy instead of "destroying" them, though).
</troll accepted>
My wife and I have unlimited phone/4G Data/texting, plus 5gb hotspot data apiece, for a total of $100/month through T-Mobile. If US was really that bad, why the need to make shit up?
Assuming that's a total of $100/month for two people, it still seems three times as expensive as (the cheapest and best provider) in France, 16 or 20 €/month for unlimited everything (you get 4€ off if you're also a broadband client). What's with the 5GB hotspot data if you have unlimited 4G data, does that mean you only have unlimited if it's 4G and not if it's 3G or Edge?
Not 1950's, but in my office there is a box of punch cards. On their edges[1] are written the monikers of different computer programs that still run today.
[1] You may know, or might like to know, that people used to write literally on the edges of the cards, like you would if you closed a book and wrote on the side opposite the binding. Not only did it make it easy to identify the dozen(s) of cards of your program in the box of hundreds, but also made it easy (easier) to sort them if you happened to spill them on the floor -- or if the car transporting your code to another site happened to roll over in a highway ditch, which allegedly did happen.
Working on Cisco command line, I was in the habit of typing "no " and doing a double-click-middle-click on the line I wanted to delete. Worked very well except for
(IIRC)
redistribute bgp 100 metric 100 metric-type 1 subnets route-map BGP2OSPF
In this specific copying the entire line after "no " does not remove the line, it just removes the route-map limitation, and hey presto I was redistributing our full BGP into OSP. Clincher was that it took some 20 minutes for the network to actually stop working, so bu that time I had totally forgotten about it. It took an hour to find out what the problem was and to correct it, during which my ISP was basically of the network.
Also turn off your antivirus software. Sometimes it gets in the way of the Internet.
</sarcasm>
Uhhhhh . . . I thought the same way you do. That's the only time I was wrong calling ISP tech support. I called to say that the new WiFi USB key (this was a few years ago) that I'd bought for my mother would get recognized, would connect and get DHCP but nothing more, so the problem was obviously on the router end. The first thing the tech asked was for me to turn off the antivirus. I fudged and said sure, ok... it's off... still doesn't work. The tech then quickly walked me through a series of lengthy MS-prefixed DOS-mode commands, and hey presto, no more problem. I asked what he'd done. He said he'd turned off my anti-virus. The driver for the big-name USB WiFi key wasn't signed, so Norton interfered with it. I told my Ma to buy another antivirus. The tech support was good (this was the guy who first picked up the phone), but sorry for most of you, it wasn't in the U.S. (it was French Orange). They'd got better since the day they told a friend of mine to restart Internet Explorer after he told them he'd diagnosed a failed route in their peering exchange.
And that is not the time when I installed a totally clean computer for my aunt who'd provided me with original CDs of Windows, Norton, et al., connected it to the Net, and the first popup was "Norton has detected that your system is trying to access the Internet, recommend Accept". I wondered what it could be, so I clicked for the details, and the packet in question was "incoming to port 135" from an IP somewhere in Africa.
I noticed there is a bit more perceived hostility when dealing with "text chat" support than over the phone.
Depends on if it is a real person. I've tried to use chat support on several occasions with different companies, and each time I've started out writing four or five sentences that outline my problem, what I've done to resolve it, what happened. I've *been* T3 support, after all. Every single time, the descendant of Eliza chatting with me started out asking me to confirm the nature of my problem, and continued asking me one by one the exact questions which I'd already addressed the very first time I hit Send. It is only when they have arrived at wit's end that a human (sometimes) steps in.
My take away from the OP is that it sounds like developers are like small children and the best managers need to be helicopter parents.
You got it wrong; some developers are like small children and need intense parenting, and the best developers thrive with only helicopter parenting.
superior compensation. period.
There is a must-see Dilbert for that: http://dilbert.com/strip/2012-...
told me that his job was only partially to tell me what to do (because I should know most of it) and mostly to shield me from the bureaucrap so that I could concentrate on doing it. I try to emulate that.
Two other nuggets I aim for:
- a good manager tells his people what *his* objectives are, and explains to them how that translates into the objectives he's giving them.
- there are different kinds of management for different people, and a good manager must adapt. A newbie or an incompetent *needs* micromanaging (but beware of giving the impression of thinking either one is incompetent). As they get older/wiser/more experienced the manager can go more and more hands-off, until with a senior engineer/whatever the manager should be able to just discuss strategy and budget and priorities and such.
Terminate half the wires to one jack and half to the other.
You shouldn't even need to do that. I set up a simple patch panel of female ethernet connectors in my wiring closet, each connected to the female ethernet connectors all over the house. My POTS line comes into that wiring closet (well, my DSL line does, and my box has an RJ11 POTS connector). Plug the phone's RJ11 into the RJ45 where you want the telephone (yes, male RJ11 plugs into female RJ45 by design), find a male-male RJ11 to connect the corresponding patch panel RJ45 to the RJ11 POTS line, and bingo you can have your POTS telephone wherever you thought to place an ethernet outlet.
You probably want to avoid messing up connections between ethernet and POTS though. I've done it without ill effects, but no one phoned me during the time it was misplugged.
Now that I've wasted the mod point I awarded here before posting, some other tips, not all cool new tech:
- some place with ethernet that you can have a noisy server. Servers aren't that noisy any more, but I've had to junk one supposedly silent server because the power unit emitted a very annoying high-pitched whine, and cheap hard disks still make noise. This could be the wiring closet, but not necessarily.
- there's a (maybe European) quality of cable called "grade 3" that is better than cat6 (cat6e?) in that you can wire a satellite (coax) signal directly to it.
- if you use contractors, watch them. Every day. Get them used to the idea that they can ask you things. I put double RJ45 outlets in a lot of places, but the only place I really wanted two was where I was putting the television. Guess where the cabling guy decided on his own to only put a single because the patch panel had one hole less than needed?
- if you use contractors, watch them even more than that. I have a friend who used to change out of business work clothes into worker's coveralls in order to walk around his future house every evening. One evening he sees something bad (ISTR isolation) and calls it to the attention of the guy working nearby. The reply was "Oh yeah I know I messed up but it's too much work to correct, it'll be covered by drywall, the owner will never know".
- why not run cable to the fridge? To somewhere you might want a (PoE) surveillance camera? Wifi repeater?
- battery-powered doorbells suck.
- easily accessible storage space for things like vacuum cleaner, mop, dry food, clothes
- BTW, central vacuum cleaning, but storage is good anyway.
- I put washing and drying machines on the bedroom floor instead of basement or kitchen. No more carrying dirty clothing up and down stairs, but YMMV if your sleep patterns might clash with the noise. BTW, drying machines are better and cheaper if they have a hole to the outside.
- depending on your local weather, DFV (double-flow ventilation) with heat exchange so you don't lose heat, and cheaper electricity and heating mentioned by others
- Kitchen: granite desktop. Draw-out trash can just underneath so you can just sweep peelings from the working area directly into the trash can. Dishwasher a foot or two above the usual level so you don't have to bend (you put your hand in the dishwasher a lot more often than in the oven, and kids can fall on the upwards-pointing knives in a dishwasher just like they can burn their hands on an oven). Power plugs for kitchen appliances of course, maybe ethernet?
- going to have animals? Where are you putting their food, will you shut up the dog during the night and if so where, do you need a cat door, etc.
Lots more of course, I have often heard that that the house you get perfect is the third one you build!
I'm only wasting one mod point here: OK, separate the toilet from the bathroom, perfect, but don't forget to put in a a sink for washing hands beside the toilet. It costs next to nothing and there are slim models that do not take up much space. I have two bathrooms with sink, two toilets with sink. Even with a family of four, I find it's a minimum.
Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR, in other words "Space War") had a problem fulfilling The Next Generation Enterprise Network (NGEN) contract? I think the Navy Trekkies are in control of the acronym office!
https://www.google.fr/search?q...
And also RSA token, car keys, home keys, work keys. Looking for two mini-screwdrivers to round it out.
Their products are uniformly flimsy, ugly and poorly constructed. It's truly more expensive to support these cheap things than to pay the difference for something of average or good quality.
THIS THIS THIS. I'm typing on an Acer laptop right now. The price was good, the specs were good, and it sure looks nice... But the touchpad is way too sensitive, the keyboard is flimsy, and the screws holding it together started falling out the moment I took it out of the box.
I've got a mobile phone too, same thing, the engineering and quality control is quite simply bad.
because you should never sign a cert that has an expiration date later that that of the signing cert !
The tablet is doubtless cool! Restricting oneself to available hardware, the doctor could have a mike inside the suit, and the assistant could then easily take dictation outside.
To put things into perspective, how well would Napoleon do against full might of the 2015 US Military? And that's only 200 years of technology.
No need to go to 200 years. Pitch 1945 US armed forces against anything > 30 years prior.
I've run without AdBlock since forever, because hey the guys running the content get money that way, and sometimes the ads are useful, sometimes I click, and sometimes I've even bought... but just this week I encountered an ad by Essilor that just wouldn't shut up, with the useless AdChoices button but without the X to get rid of it. I closed the page, installed Adblock, went back to finish the page. Three days later I am definitely not missing all those ads!