Slackware from floppies checking in. I was so excited when I found an InfoMagic CDROM set at a computer fair and could install my next darkstar without switching floppies 20 times.1995 was a great year for Linux...
Sam's Club has a similar system on line now too. It's an app that you install on your smartphone. You scan each item into the app as you put it into your cart, then hit the "checkout" button to verify your payment. You show your phone to the receipt checker at the door, who scans it with a handheld scanner to verify that you paid for everything in your cart, and you are done.
IMO, it's not a bigger threat to employees than the self-checkout kiosks. It simply reduces the utilization of the self-checkout lines, reducing the maintenance costs of that hardware and saving the company money. There is still the same person at the exit doors validating the items in the cart match the receipt (mostly a simple count of items).
First and foremost - Skilcraft US Government pen, fine point. They write *forever* and I have never had a line bleed or morse code along a ruler. Nice fine lines. My everyday pen. Slightly thicker than you are asking for, but meets the other criteria. Always ready to write. I pulled some 20 year old stock from a storeroom and they started writing right away. No excessive force needed. *cheap* Second - Zebra F701. Wonderful pen. I've had mine for about 3 years now. Durable and good looking. Finer and better looking ink text and lines. Meets all your criteria and is a joy to hold. All stainless construction. Third - Fisher space pen, matte black finish. I've had it for 10 years. The ink is a bit smudgy and stays wet for a long time. It's been supplanted by the Zebra. Does not meet criteria 1 or 3. The finish is a bit slippery and fatigues my hand during long sessions. Strong enough to use as a stabbing weapon. The Zebra and Fisher live in my uniform, even when hung up in the closet. They serve me faithfully and I never let them out of my sight. I'll give away the Skilcrafts all day but get anxious if my "babies" are lent out.
From a long-time/. reader, thank you for working so hard to keep the site thriving. Slashdot was one of the first tech news sites that I frequented, and more than a decade later I come back on a daily basis. I have many good memories of wasting time here instead of working. I wish you the best in everything!
When I do the whole burn-down-rebuild on a system, I let it evolve to my tastes. I like a change of scenery now and then, and a new OS install is the right time for me to get that. I try new apps, new desktops, new ideas all around. I might do KDE next time, I might stick with Gnome. I get new icon sets, experiment with new color schemes and wallpapers. It keeps me entertained and I always end up with a usable desktop in the end.
Do you have any idea how most of us sysadmins got into the business? We started out as programmers, configuration management, hardware techs, etc. Then the inevitable happened. "Hey, you know something about networks. Could you take a look at this?" Ten years later, you look back on your life and wonder what happened.
The 1% is completely unrealistic. You may be able to design and implement a network that will take only 20 minutes a week to maintain - WITHOUT USERS!
Sysadmins know. It's the users that cause the problems. And heaven help you if you are connected to the Internet.
From your description, I would say that eliminating a separate distribution layer would be just fine. A central layer-3 switch with enough ports to service all the users and infrastructure would be adequate for your network in most cases. You probably will end up with a distribution layer of sorts anyway as people put 4 and 8 port switches on desks for various reasons.
Speaking from the $$$ side, it looks like you have priced out both options and the core-only network would be cheaper. In that case, more power to you. Have you factored in the cost of long cable runs from the core out to the farthest reaches of the building? If it is a larger building, you could save on cabling by putting distribution switches out in the work areas and cabling a single Gig-E run back to the core.
You are talking in the tens of distribution switches, so I can assume 200-500 total ports. That's a big piece of switch gear to support that number of ports. In the case of 20-100 ports, I personally would be looking at core-only. In the case of 200-500 ports, I would look at distribution-layer solutions if only for a reduction in the tendency for high-density switches to turn into a rats nest quickly. Even if you centrally locate the distribution switches, a stack of 48 port switches with wire management in between them will be easier to manage from a cabling maintanance viewpoint.
Why shouldn't I be able to run as an administrator on my own machine? It's my computer... I paid for it... I'm the only one using it. If the system is insecure, isn't that the system's fault? Am I to be blamed for operating my computer in a fashion that (*gasp*) allows me to make changes to it when I want without it bitching to me any further?
This is a bad attitude to take. You might be the only user on your machine now, but when you allow a trojan on that downloads and installs remote-control software on your computer, you are not the only user anymore. In the current state of the Internet, you are being irresponsible if you think you are the only one using your computer. It sucks, yes, but it's the truth.
It's like the old saying about VD. Once you sleep with someone, it's like sleeping with everyone they have slept with, ad infinitum. If you do not take the steps to protect your computer, you are not only exposing yourself to the dangers of the Internet, but your machine can then become a vector itself. Think about that.
BTW, greets from another rohan user. I went to SDSU back in '94. rohan was the first Unix box I ever had an account on. Lots of fond memories there.
Eh? Just got into the router business? 3Com has been doing routers for YEARS now. Their core business was Ethernet from the start. It was only when they started trying to do EVERYTHING ELSE that they got in trouble. They were doing packet filters on their routers before it was in style. I remember working on a NetBuilderII router back in '97-'98 and updating packet filters.
What I have done is create a secondary Toolbar (right-click on toolbar, select Toolbars/New Toolbar), and make the only contents your Quick Launch. Set the icon size to large, and dock it at the top of the screen. I put all of my most-used apps there, and if you set it to always be on top, you don't worry about maximizing windows on top of it.
There were classes all over the hotel. In the conference room areas, they had 15" TFT screens with daily events listen on them attached to pillars. One of these was BSOD'd for the entire WEEK. I saw lots of geeks walk past and chuckle at that one. I know I did.
There was another BSOD'd information screen in the New Orleans airport on our way home. Not quite as entertaining though.
I work in a team of 4 admins, and we have two types of pager duty, day and night. The day pager is from 8AM to 5PM. The night pager covers 5PM to 8AM and all day Sat and Sun. We rotate day pager on a daily basis, and night pager on a weekly basis. You cannot have day pager on the same week you have night pager.
This scheme works out good. We all end up with an even amount of day pager duty in a month, and we each get 13 weeks of night pager duty per year. If a holiday falls on a weekday, the night pager person does the day shift.
A friend of mine on another team does an entire week of pager at a time. It sucks for him. He hates it. I much prefer our system.
and you need to transfer a file from one to another. How many ways can you come up with to do so?
This was probably my favorite tech interview question. (Thanks Eric!). It was a real mind twister. In the end, I think I came up with a dozen or so ways to do it, and I got the job.
Well, when W2K boots, it pre-loads quite a few.DLL files into memory to make it seem faster when you finally get around to loading some Office app. So, it isn't quite as svelte as you believe.
Of course, using a competing suite doesn't give you as much benefit either if all those.DLL files are still in memory in hopes that you will start up Word or Excel. They still take up the space.
If you really want to get wacky, find an old 3Com Netbuilder II on Ebay. I have worked on them and I know that they support Fast Ethernet. I don't think that 3Com is putting firmware out anymore, but the latest stuff supports NAT, I'm pretty sure.
Never forget the old stuff. Most of the time, these things are just sitting around collecting dust.
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Arrrgh! My eyes! You bastard!
Let the rhythm take control...
Let the rhythm move you...
*bump* *bump* *bumpbumpbump*
All the reaction I see to this article is negative and whiny - "I paid for my 2Mb/s, and I'm going to use it ALL!"
That's a pretty poor attitude, if you ask me. You are sharing some large ISP pipes with thousands of other people. By being a "bandwidth hog", you are not only cheating the ISP (it's still wrong to mistreat a criminal), but cheating your fellow netizens.
Sure, it sucks that there are people out there thinking that ISP customers are acting like criminals, but if we all acted responsibly, there might not be as much of this thinking going around.
For me, broadband is about being able to get information faster, but not about being able to run gnutella 24/7 and fill up my hard drive for the sake of doing so. It simply makes it more convienient for me to surf the Internet and do some telecommuting.
For all of the community-mindedness of the Open Source crowd, this seems like a backward step. There is responsibility with freedom, and the greater freedom of a fat pipe to your house comes with the obligation to use it in a reasonable manner.
Sure, when I get my DSL, I am going to hook up a few computers to it and NAT. My wife's computer, mine, and the kids all would benefit from a shared 'net connection. But, I doubt we will abuse the pipe.
If you want to run a porn site/mp3 stream or leech music 24/7, get a T1 to your house. Otherwise, just be responsible and considerate. It's not about the ISP. It's about those who are using the same service.
Classic. I had carroll. I assume you have an account on rohan. That was a SparcCenter 1000 when I used it, with NCD terminals in basement labs. I hope it's still the same.
Hmmm. I think my username was masc0028. Not sure.
Does he still wear (I think) light blue poly suits?
It was an enjoyable class. I learned a LOT there.
I only spent 1 more semester at SDSU, so I can't recommend a study course. However, just about any CS coursepath will help out. Like I said, it's mostly about experience in the field. Get a PC and install Linux/FreeBSD. Buy an old Sun on ebay. Ultra 1's are going for like $200 these days. Learn Solaris on that. Get Solaris x86, just for one more platform to experience.
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You woke me up for this? Bah.
Slackware from floppies checking in. I was so excited when I found an InfoMagic CDROM set at a computer fair and could install my next darkstar without switching floppies 20 times.1995 was a great year for Linux...
Sam's Club has a similar system on line now too. It's an app that you install on your smartphone. You scan each item into the app as you put it into your cart, then hit the "checkout" button to verify your payment. You show your phone to the receipt checker at the door, who scans it with a handheld scanner to verify that you paid for everything in your cart, and you are done.
IMO, it's not a bigger threat to employees than the self-checkout kiosks. It simply reduces the utilization of the self-checkout lines, reducing the maintenance costs of that hardware and saving the company money. There is still the same person at the exit doors validating the items in the cart match the receipt (mostly a simple count of items).
First and foremost - Skilcraft US Government pen, fine point. They write *forever* and I have never had a line bleed or morse code along a ruler. Nice fine lines. My everyday pen. Slightly thicker than you are asking for, but meets the other criteria. Always ready to write. I pulled some 20 year old stock from a storeroom and they started writing right away. No excessive force needed. *cheap*
Second - Zebra F701. Wonderful pen. I've had mine for about 3 years now. Durable and good looking. Finer and better looking ink text and lines. Meets all your criteria and is a joy to hold. All stainless construction.
Third - Fisher space pen, matte black finish. I've had it for 10 years. The ink is a bit smudgy and stays wet for a long time. It's been supplanted by the Zebra. Does not meet criteria 1 or 3. The finish is a bit slippery and fatigues my hand during long sessions. Strong enough to use as a stabbing weapon.
The Zebra and Fisher live in my uniform, even when hung up in the closet. They serve me faithfully and I never let them out of my sight. I'll give away the Skilcrafts all day but get anxious if my "babies" are lent out.
From a long-time /. reader, thank you for working so hard to keep the site thriving. Slashdot was one of the first tech news sites that I frequented, and more than a decade later I come back on a daily basis. I have many good memories of wasting time here instead of working. I wish you the best in everything!
Bah. Kids these days with their "superior" 5 digit UIDs...
http://www.monoprice.com/products/subdepartment.asp?c_id=105&cp_id=10208
A whole RAINBOW of colors there. Even pink!
When I do the whole burn-down-rebuild on a system, I let it evolve to my tastes. I like a change of scenery now and then, and a new OS install is the right time for me to get that. I try new apps, new desktops, new ideas all around. I might do KDE next time, I might stick with Gnome. I get new icon sets, experiment with new color schemes and wallpapers. It keeps me entertained and I always end up with a usable desktop in the end.
Bill? Is that you?
This reads like marketing copy straight out of the bowels (ass?) of Microsoft. You didn't even try to sound like a real person.
Wow.
Do you have any idea how most of us sysadmins got into the business? We started out as programmers, configuration management, hardware techs, etc. Then the inevitable happened. "Hey, you know something about networks. Could you take a look at this?" Ten years later, you look back on your life and wonder what happened.
The 1% is completely unrealistic. You may be able to design and implement a network that will take only 20 minutes a week to maintain - WITHOUT USERS!
Sysadmins know. It's the users that cause the problems. And heaven help you if you are connected to the Internet.
My guess is 25%.
If Yodaspeak you try to emulate, failed you have. Mean this do you? If driven by anger your OS change has been, won have the terrorists.
Speaking from the $$$ side, it looks like you have priced out both options and the core-only network would be cheaper. In that case, more power to you. Have you factored in the cost of long cable runs from the core out to the farthest reaches of the building? If it is a larger building, you could save on cabling by putting distribution switches out in the work areas and cabling a single Gig-E run back to the core.
You are talking in the tens of distribution switches, so I can assume 200-500 total ports. That's a big piece of switch gear to support that number of ports. In the case of 20-100 ports, I personally would be looking at core-only. In the case of 200-500 ports, I would look at distribution-layer solutions if only for a reduction in the tendency for high-density switches to turn into a rats nest quickly. Even if you centrally locate the distribution switches, a stack of 48 port switches with wire management in between them will be easier to manage from a cabling maintanance viewpoint.
This is a bad attitude to take. You might be the only user on your machine now, but when you allow a trojan on that downloads and installs remote-control software on your computer, you are not the only user anymore. In the current state of the Internet, you are being irresponsible if you think you are the only one using your computer. It sucks, yes, but it's the truth.
It's like the old saying about VD. Once you sleep with someone, it's like sleeping with everyone they have slept with, ad infinitum. If you do not take the steps to protect your computer, you are not only exposing yourself to the dangers of the Internet, but your machine can then become a vector itself. Think about that.
BTW, greets from another rohan user. I went to SDSU back in '94. rohan was the first Unix box I ever had an account on. Lots of fond memories there.
Jeremy
Eh? Just got into the router business? 3Com has been doing routers for YEARS now. Their core business was Ethernet from the start. It was only when they started trying to do EVERYTHING ELSE that they got in trouble. They were doing packet filters on their routers before it was in style. I remember working on a NetBuilderII router back in '97-'98 and updating packet filters.
Reverend Kool? Is that you?
Seriously, calm down. I hope that you never Xeroxed a copy on a Canon copier or used a store-brand Kleenex to blow your nose.
Some brands have become generic terms. Unix is one of them.
What I have done is create a secondary Toolbar (right-click on toolbar, select Toolbars/New Toolbar), and make the only contents your Quick Launch. Set the icon size to large, and dock it at the top of the screen. I put all of my most-used apps there, and if you set it to always be on top, you don't worry about maximizing windows on top of it.
There were classes all over the hotel. In the conference room areas, they had 15" TFT screens with daily events listen on them attached to pillars. One of these was BSOD'd for the entire WEEK. I saw lots of geeks walk past and chuckle at that one. I know I did.
There was another BSOD'd information screen in the New Orleans airport on our way home. Not quite as entertaining though.
This scheme works out good. We all end up with an even amount of day pager duty in a month, and we each get 13 weeks of night pager duty per year. If a holiday falls on a weekday, the night pager person does the day shift.
A friend of mine on another team does an entire week of pager at a time. It sucks for him. He hates it. I much prefer our system.
and you need to transfer a file from one to another. How many ways can you come up with to do so?
This was probably my favorite tech interview question. (Thanks Eric!). It was a real mind twister. In the end, I think I came up with a dozen or so ways to do it, and I got the job.
Well, when W2K boots, it pre-loads quite a few .DLL files into memory to make it seem faster when you finally get around to loading some Office app. So, it isn't quite as svelte as you believe.
.DLL files are still in memory in hopes that you will start up Word or Excel. They still take up the space.
Of course, using a competing suite doesn't give you as much benefit either if all those
If you really want to get wacky, find an old 3Com Netbuilder II on Ebay. I have worked on them and I know that they support Fast Ethernet. I don't think that 3Com is putting firmware out anymore, but the latest stuff supports NAT, I'm pretty sure.
Never forget the old stuff. Most of the time, these things are just sitting around collecting dust.
Arrrgh! My eyes! You bastard!
Let the rhythm take control...
Let the rhythm move you...
*bump* *bump* *bumpbumpbump*
All the reaction I see to this article is negative and whiny - "I paid for my 2Mb/s, and I'm going to use it ALL!"
That's a pretty poor attitude, if you ask me. You are sharing some large ISP pipes with thousands of other people. By being a "bandwidth hog", you are not only cheating the ISP (it's still wrong to mistreat a criminal), but cheating your fellow netizens.
Sure, it sucks that there are people out there thinking that ISP customers are acting like criminals, but if we all acted responsibly, there might not be as much of this thinking going around.
For me, broadband is about being able to get information faster, but not about being able to run gnutella 24/7 and fill up my hard drive for the sake of doing so. It simply makes it more convienient for me to surf the Internet and do some telecommuting.
For all of the community-mindedness of the Open Source crowd, this seems like a backward step. There is responsibility with freedom, and the greater freedom of a fat pipe to your house comes with the obligation to use it in a reasonable manner.
Sure, when I get my DSL, I am going to hook up a few computers to it and NAT. My wife's computer, mine, and the kids all would benefit from a shared 'net connection. But, I doubt we will abuse the pipe.
If you want to run a porn site/mp3 stream or leech music 24/7, get a T1 to your house. Otherwise, just be responsible and considerate. It's not about the ISP. It's about those who are using the same service.
Ummm. Not really, from my experience. We had those at a previous job, and the direct connect still had to go through the cell towers.
.ca.us when I was on vacation in .ut.us. They also track how many conversations you have.
I could direct-connect to my boss in
It's simple, text based, and powerful. Combine it with mutt for email, and you have a dynamic duo of electronic messaging!
Classic. I had carroll. I assume you have an account on rohan. That was a SparcCenter 1000 when I used it, with NCD terminals in basement labs. I hope it's still the same.
Hmmm. I think my username was masc0028. Not sure.
Does he still wear (I think) light blue poly suits?
It was an enjoyable class. I learned a LOT there.
I only spent 1 more semester at SDSU, so I can't recommend a study course. However, just about any CS coursepath will help out. Like I said, it's mostly about experience in the field. Get a PC and install Linux/FreeBSD. Buy an old Sun on ebay. Ultra 1's are going for like $200 these days. Learn Solaris on that. Get Solaris x86, just for one more platform to experience.
Just have a good time with Unix.