Of course, if you want a gigabit switch that does layer-3, you're talking about $$$$, even on eBay.
I've had excellent luck with Dell L3 Gig switches off eBay. You can usually pick up an older 6000-series for around ~$300 and much less if your patient.
Also, if you can do fiber gig, the Cisco 3550-12G and 4912G can be had for much less than $100.
I'm using used Cisco, Nortel and Dell gear purchased off eBay at home extensively. YMMV.
I've picked up Cisco 7200 and 3600 routers for less than $250 with a couple of 100baseT interfaces that can route and basic firewall at wire speed. Even a 4700 with 2 100baseT interfaces can keep up (barely). Just make sure that you get the software image you need, as you have to pay to upgrade (or steal it).
I'm pretty 'meh' on Cisco switches. They command a premium, and really aren't superior. I'd never pick up a Cisco chassis switch for the house; too loud and too much power draw. The Cisco gigabit switches generally are wildly overpriced. Almost anybodies gig copper managed switch can handle the home load. That said, if you have access to fiber NICs (dirt cheap), GBICs and fiber cables, things like a C3550-12G, C4812G and C3508G are going for dirt and are solid switches.
Dell switches are a tremendous value, especially considering the feature set (VLANs, QoS, LAG/LACP, etc). They upgrade the lines quickly (creating turnover on the secondary market), update even old ones and the software updates are free.
Nortel BayStack switches go for basically pin money because Nortel is no more and enterprise users are dumping them as fast as they can. They're every bit as good as the equivalent Cisco. Avoid the Nortel firewall/VPN gear; you really need to be able to get software updates on those, and you won't.
There's a vast amount of enterprise WLAN gear being dumped for pennies because most everyone is upgrading to 802.11n. I see keeping my 11a gear for years, as 54/108Mb is enough for almost everything an end-point needs short of 1080p streaming and 5GHz keeps you out of baby monitor and cordless phone hell. Just don't pick up anything that needs a controller to be useful.
P.S. - What everyone else said...get a UPS. Seriously.
P.P.S - Look at things like Vyatta and Linux/BSD based alternatives. Other than switches, I've pretty much ditched my enterprise options for these. I'm running them on retired, last generation, enterprise Dell servers. Loud, but rock solid.
True. The vast majority of postmortems my team has done show the compromised server was "low hanging fruit", usually because of poor patching. I wait patiently for the day that IT Ops people learn that the bullshit "why patch the box, it's stable?" attitude is going to screw them in the end. I may not live that long, however.
Mass producing housing at a price people can afford (hello, Mortage Crisis, goodbye Mortgage Crisis) requires a radical rethink of how we do construction: modularity, prefabrication, standardization - all the same things we did for every other technology we wanted to be cheap, easy and reliable.
AT&T donated many, many millions of dollars of infrastructure to Georgia Tech in the 80s under that theory. Since we don't seem to be using 3B2 decendants, DMD & BLIT terminals, running StarLAN or Datakit networks, and even the "Unix" we use is more often than not Linux, I don't think they'd do that again.
Why didn't THEY do this first? Stodgy old AT&T got in first?
Because AT&T has been providing "generously" to Georgia Tech for decades? Because West coast money tends to go to West coast schools like Stanford and Berkeley? This isn't a surprise around here.
[Sad anti-SV screed deleted]
Back in the day, when a Silicon Valley entrepreneur didn't like how the world worked or his place in it, did he take time out of numbly browsing the web to piteously vent his spleen on some meta-news site?
Hell no. They start their own company. BTW...they still do that.
Generally unaccountable agencies, able to predict with unknown precision that an individual might, at some point in the future, commit another crime? How could this possibly not end well?
Meh...time was, planes weren't going to need guns, either. I mean, after all, planes were too fast and maneuverable to be able to aim a cannon, and a missle will be able to do everything a gun could do and more, so why put the weight and expense in?
Turned out, they were wrong.
> Nobody uses anything anymore that won't work a 486 build and thus requires 386, aside from someone with a 20-year old PC.
This is factually untrue. The chip was in production until 2007 and shows up in all sorts of odd/interesting things. There's an entire ecosystem of STD-BUS and Multibus 386 systems that are still supported and could run Linux, not to mention things like the Nokia 9000.
I did read the article, thanks. He's claiming that there's a solution to that problem that isn't being pursued. That's false. Visibility is a red herring, which you nicely went after.
> Pretty much the entire financial cost of sending email, is attributable to the failure of the "free market" to motivate email providers to deliver non-spam emails into their user's inboxes.
To quote Pauli, this is not even wrong. The central fallacy to this entire anti-capitalist rant is that there's some nearly perfect solution to spam that the "market" participants are conspiring to deprive the consumer of. This contention is, not to put too fine a point on it, as deliberately dishonest as similar claims about running cars on water or perpetual motion machines. Spam is an arms race, not a problem with a "solution" that we've just been too lazy to find. Once you dispense with that fallacious premise, this entire screed can be summarized as "I'm butthurt because Spamhaus/Yahoo/Hotmail blocked my spammy-but-not-spam-because-I-said-so emails and they won't take my call" all wrapped up in a "won't someone think of the children...err...dissidents!" bow.
Email account providers have as many automated, heuristic-based blocking techniques as blacklist based. Have you considered that you might have tripped one? Like...a domain that was registered less than a week ago, first mailing we got from them was a carpet-bomb, content we've previously spotted and identified as spam? I mean, it's a lot less sexy than claiming there's a villainous corporate cabal in the back room twirling their mustaches as they condemn some hapless dissident to a life of Internet ignorance, but it is possible.
> Many standards, such as PCI compliance, require that you separate all of your units.
Not that I disagree with your sentiment,but there is nothing in the PCI requirements (or any other compliance regime that I have audited against) that require you separate all of your "units" into individual VMs or physical servers. You can use it as one way of satisfying a couple of the requirements (e.g. securing cardholder data), but you can just as easily satisfy them other ways.
Not only are we going to loose payphones, we are going to quickly loose universal service and probably land lines in many places. The carriers are fighting tooth and nails to be able to forget about all those decades of subsidies and only provide the most profitable services (wireless) and to shed everything else.
I recently did an analysis of the major (and many minor) AV players with respect to detection rates and more importantly to time between when a piece of malware is found and when it is identified by each AV product.
Good News: The free Microsoft AV (MSE) is basically as good as any product we looked at.
Bad News: All AV sucks to varying degrees. Noone consistently had both good detection and quick enough signature updates. We see AV as a small piece of overlapping defense.
At least as important:
- Relentless patching of everything on your box (look at Secuna PSI for home use).
- Use a non-admin account for daily computing. Consider using throw-away Windows VMs when visiting potentially dangerous territory.
- Ad/Flash/Script blockers plugins.
- Disable Java.
Things like this probably have as much bang-for-buck as AV.
Get into something involving large datacenters: building them out, hosting/colo, cloud, companies like Google/Apple/Akimai. Those guys often spend much of their time out on the floor, doing physical things, and there's flat out a lot of walking done in a million square foot DC.
Wait a minute: did you just compare a felony (theft) with copying one file?
And you have the nerve to call the GP's morals as "hopelessly fucked up and bankrupt"? Why don't you go fuck yourself, mate.
Wait a minute: did you just call theft a felony when that isn't stated or implied for histrionic purposes?
Wait a minute: did you just imply it's okay to steal someone elses creative output in toto without credit or compensation because it's just "one file"?
You don't know that the person didn't get it from another website which claimed the image was under a different license. Or hell, the person could even have paid somebody else that had copied that picture and included it on a batch of stock images they had no rights to.
Irrelevant. All off those are possibilities, but they are NOT get-out-of-jail-free cards. "I didn't know it was a stolen image" doesn't follow with "so I can keep using it" any more than unknowingly buying a stolen laptop on Craigslist mean you get to keep it if the police find it.
Basically, you can't assume that the person knows they are infringing copyright.
Irrelevant. There's nothing in here about intent. People were using Jeff's images unjustly. He followed the law that covers how to deal with that. Period. They how have to stop using them. Period. One sociopath has a problem with that, and that's why we're hearing about it.
Once again, not a lawyer, but it's my understanding that for any civil disagreement, if you show up in front of a judge without first having tried to negotiate and resolve the conflict amicably, the judge is going to be very angry at you, and tell you go try to negotiate first.
Irrelevant. Jeff isn't suing anyone. Jeff isn't taking anyone to court. Jeff is following the law when he issues a legitimate DMCA request. If Jeff ends up in court through some travesty, that's what the judge will care about. The only person talking about going to court is the nutjob who stole his image. And if you want to see a judge get mad, let me assure you that "you used an infringing image, the plaintiff filed a legal and appropriate injunction, and you're suing him because you don't like it, and you're a lawyer" will result in a full-blown melt-down, if not a formal sanction and request for disbarment.
If I discovered all 14 of my sites were taken down, while I'm trying to raise money for Special needs, I'd probably respond in a similar angry fashion.
I'm completely justified in stealing other peoples work, because it's For The Children! Oh...and I used the same stolen image on my business web site. But it's still For The Children, so that's completely cool.
That said, this is a clear example of the problems with the DMCA. Had the photographer contacted the website admin and requested the picture be taken down or permissions be negotiated before submitting a formal takedown, this whole situation may have been avoided (depending on just how crazy the woman is).
The DMCS is bad. Know that I'm not arguing that point. But not just "no" but "fuck no", it *not* the DMCA that's the problem. The whole situation could have been avoided if the website admin HADN'T STOLEN SOMEONE ELSE'S WORK. Seriously...how the fuck can people here not see that literally dozens of people stole this guys work, knowingly, and then want to put the burden on him to track each of them down, ask them nice to put up or take down, hope they do, "negotiate" something unspecified, lather, rinse, repeat, before he's allowed to use the law specifically intended to protect him in this situation.
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I've had excellent luck with Dell L3 Gig switches off eBay. You can usually pick up an older 6000-series for around ~$300 and much less if your patient.
Also, if you can do fiber gig, the Cisco 3550-12G and 4912G can be had for much less than $100.
I've picked up Cisco 7200 and 3600 routers for less than $250 with a couple of 100baseT interfaces that can route and basic firewall at wire speed. Even a 4700 with 2 100baseT interfaces can keep up (barely). Just make sure that you get the software image you need, as you have to pay to upgrade (or steal it).
I'm pretty 'meh' on Cisco switches. They command a premium, and really aren't superior. I'd never pick up a Cisco chassis switch for the house; too loud and too much power draw. The Cisco gigabit switches generally are wildly overpriced. Almost anybodies gig copper managed switch can handle the home load. That said, if you have access to fiber NICs (dirt cheap), GBICs and fiber cables, things like a C3550-12G, C4812G and C3508G are going for dirt and are solid switches.
Dell switches are a tremendous value, especially considering the feature set (VLANs, QoS, LAG/LACP, etc). They upgrade the lines quickly (creating turnover on the secondary market), update even old ones and the software updates are free.
Nortel BayStack switches go for basically pin money because Nortel is no more and enterprise users are dumping them as fast as they can. They're every bit as good as the equivalent Cisco. Avoid the Nortel firewall/VPN gear; you really need to be able to get software updates on those, and you won't.
There's a vast amount of enterprise WLAN gear being dumped for pennies because most everyone is upgrading to 802.11n. I see keeping my 11a gear for years, as 54/108Mb is enough for almost everything an end-point needs short of 1080p streaming and 5GHz keeps you out of baby monitor and cordless phone hell. Just don't pick up anything that needs a controller to be useful.
P.S. - What everyone else said...get a UPS. Seriously.
P.P.S - Look at things like Vyatta and Linux/BSD based alternatives. Other than switches, I've pretty much ditched my enterprise options for these. I'm running them on retired, last generation, enterprise Dell servers. Loud, but rock solid.
True. The vast majority of postmortems my team has done show the compromised server was "low hanging fruit", usually because of poor patching. I wait patiently for the day that IT Ops people learn that the bullshit "why patch the box, it's stable?" attitude is going to screw them in the end. I may not live that long, however.
Mass producing housing at a price people can afford (hello, Mortage Crisis, goodbye Mortgage Crisis) requires a radical rethink of how we do construction: modularity, prefabrication, standardization - all the same things we did for every other technology we wanted to be cheap, easy and reliable.
It has been done before.
AT&T donated many, many millions of dollars of infrastructure to Georgia Tech in the 80s under that theory. Since we don't seem to be using 3B2 decendants, DMD & BLIT terminals, running StarLAN or Datakit networks, and even the "Unix" we use is more often than not Linux, I don't think they'd do that again.
Define "generous". $100? $1,000, $10,000 $1,000,000? $Billion?
Let me Google that for you: $2m.
Why didn't THEY do this first? Stodgy old AT&T got in first?
Because AT&T has been providing "generously" to Georgia Tech for decades? Because West coast money tends to go to West coast schools like Stanford and Berkeley? This isn't a surprise around here.
[Sad anti-SV screed deleted]
Back in the day, when a Silicon Valley entrepreneur didn't like how the world worked or his place in it, did he take time out of numbly browsing the web to piteously vent his spleen on some meta-news site?
Hell no. They start their own company. BTW...they still do that.
Look at the big brain on characterZer0. I couldn't mod up...sorry
Generally unaccountable agencies, able to predict with unknown precision that an individual might, at some point in the future, commit another crime? How could this possibly not end well?
AOL was running mostly IRIX and HP/UX in that era. No, I didn't work there.
Let me guess...control processors for Erricson or Lucent GPRS or CDMA cell switches? Do I know you?
Meh...time was, planes weren't going to need guns, either. I mean, after all, planes were too fast and maneuverable to be able to aim a cannon, and a missle will be able to do everything a gun could do and more, so why put the weight and expense in? Turned out, they were wrong.
This is factually untrue. The chip was in production until 2007 and shows up in all sorts of odd/interesting things. There's an entire ecosystem of STD-BUS and Multibus 386 systems that are still supported and could run Linux, not to mention things like the Nokia 9000.
With impartial sources and impeccable anecdotes like that, how can we possibly argue.
I did read the article, thanks. He's claiming that there's a solution to that problem that isn't being pursued. That's false. Visibility is a red herring, which you nicely went after.
To quote Pauli, this is not even wrong. The central fallacy to this entire anti-capitalist rant is that there's some nearly perfect solution to spam that the "market" participants are conspiring to deprive the consumer of. This contention is, not to put too fine a point on it, as deliberately dishonest as similar claims about running cars on water or perpetual motion machines. Spam is an arms race, not a problem with a "solution" that we've just been too lazy to find. Once you dispense with that fallacious premise, this entire screed can be summarized as "I'm butthurt because Spamhaus/Yahoo/Hotmail blocked my spammy-but-not-spam-because-I-said-so emails and they won't take my call" all wrapped up in a "won't someone think of the children...err...dissidents!" bow.
Email account providers have as many automated, heuristic-based blocking techniques as blacklist based. Have you considered that you might have tripped one? Like...a domain that was registered less than a week ago, first mailing we got from them was a carpet-bomb, content we've previously spotted and identified as spam? I mean, it's a lot less sexy than claiming there's a villainous corporate cabal in the back room twirling their mustaches as they condemn some hapless dissident to a life of Internet ignorance, but it is possible.
Not that I disagree with your sentiment,but there is nothing in the PCI requirements (or any other compliance regime that I have audited against) that require you separate all of your "units" into individual VMs or physical servers. You can use it as one way of satisfying a couple of the requirements (e.g. securing cardholder data), but you can just as easily satisfy them other ways.
Not only are we going to loose payphones, we are going to quickly loose universal service and probably land lines in many places. The carriers are fighting tooth and nails to be able to forget about all those decades of subsidies and only provide the most profitable services (wireless) and to shed everything else.
Good News: The free Microsoft AV (MSE) is basically as good as any product we looked at.
Bad News: All AV sucks to varying degrees. Noone consistently had both good detection and quick enough signature updates. We see AV as a small piece of overlapping defense.
At least as important:
- Relentless patching of everything on your box (look at Secuna PSI for home use).
- Use a non-admin account for daily computing. Consider using throw-away Windows VMs when visiting potentially dangerous territory.
- Ad/Flash/Script blockers plugins.
- Disable Java.
Things like this probably have as much bang-for-buck as AV.
Get into something involving large datacenters: building them out, hosting/colo, cloud, companies like Google/Apple/Akimai. Those guys often spend much of their time out on the floor, doing physical things, and there's flat out a lot of walking done in a million square foot DC.
Dr. Dobbs still exists?
Wait a minute: did you just compare a felony (theft) with copying one file?
And you have the nerve to call the GP's morals as "hopelessly fucked up and bankrupt"? Why don't you go fuck yourself, mate.
Wait a minute: did you just call theft a felony when that isn't stated or implied for histrionic purposes?
Wait a minute: did you just imply it's okay to steal someone elses creative output in toto without credit or compensation because it's just "one file"?
I'm not your mate, asshole.
"If it's digital, I can take it, and use it any way I want, claim credit for it, and not give you anything, no matter what went into it's creation"
Got it. You and your world view sucks just as much as Candice Shwagger.
You don't know that the person didn't get it from another website which claimed the image was under a different license. Or hell, the person could even have paid somebody else that had copied that picture and included it on a batch of stock images they had no rights to.
Irrelevant. All off those are possibilities, but they are NOT get-out-of-jail-free cards. "I didn't know it was a stolen image" doesn't follow with "so I can keep using it" any more than unknowingly buying a stolen laptop on Craigslist mean you get to keep it if the police find it.
Basically, you can't assume that the person knows they are infringing copyright.
Irrelevant. There's nothing in here about intent. People were using Jeff's images unjustly. He followed the law that covers how to deal with that. Period. They how have to stop using them. Period. One sociopath has a problem with that, and that's why we're hearing about it.
Once again, not a lawyer, but it's my understanding that for any civil disagreement, if you show up in front of a judge without first having tried to negotiate and resolve the conflict amicably, the judge is going to be very angry at you, and tell you go try to negotiate first.
Irrelevant. Jeff isn't suing anyone. Jeff isn't taking anyone to court. Jeff is following the law when he issues a legitimate DMCA request. If Jeff ends up in court through some travesty, that's what the judge will care about. The only person talking about going to court is the nutjob who stole his image. And if you want to see a judge get mad, let me assure you that "you used an infringing image, the plaintiff filed a legal and appropriate injunction, and you're suing him because you don't like it, and you're a lawyer" will result in a full-blown melt-down, if not a formal sanction and request for disbarment.
If I discovered all 14 of my sites were taken down, while I'm trying to raise money for Special needs, I'd probably respond in a similar angry fashion.
I'm completely justified in stealing other peoples work, because it's For The Children! Oh...and I used the same stolen image on my business web site. But it's still For The Children, so that's completely cool.
Really?
That said, this is a clear example of the problems with the DMCA. Had the photographer contacted the website admin and requested the picture be taken down or permissions be negotiated before submitting a formal takedown, this whole situation may have been avoided (depending on just how crazy the woman is).
The DMCS is bad. Know that I'm not arguing that point. But not just "no" but "fuck no", it *not* the DMCA that's the problem. The whole situation could have been avoided if the website admin HADN'T STOLEN SOMEONE ELSE'S WORK. Seriously...how the fuck can people here not see that literally dozens of people stole this guys work, knowingly, and then want to put the burden on him to track each of them down, ask them nice to put up or take down, hope they do, "negotiate" something unspecified, lather, rinse, repeat, before he's allowed to use the law specifically intended to protect him in this situation.