White collar workers generally don't do much that necessitates the third dimension. You don't need a field of depth to read a memo on a 8.5x11 piece of paper. Spreadsheets? Users have enough time figuring out a x by y grid, lets not add z and test their spatial abilities.
Dude, what would the point of a trade show be if you were going to see stuff that is available? Thats like going to a strip club where all the dancers are ex-girlfriends.
Yes, I, a single netadmin, am well on my way to destroying TCP/IP.
SOAP is being pushed as an alternative to EDI, Corba, etc, etc (this isn't my area, remember, I am the netadmin trying to destroy tcp/ip). This is because firewall/security teams are not interested in working with (their company's) vendors to establish IPSec tunnels, or SSL tunnels for various apps. Instead of quicker binary transfer within a ssl or ipsec tunnel, stuff will be kludged into https, lest the firewall team's sensibilities be offended.
There will be a huge market for near (as near as one can get) wirespeed http proxies soon as a result. Pretty soon some one will build some hack with some beta of.net that is vulnerable, and all hell will break loose as http becomes the big threat (as seen on the front of Infoweek/world/land, etc). A big market will result as companies throw proxies in front of their webservers , and in front of their end users internally to protect against this self generated menace.
I am a mean old network admin for a software consultancy company. I can therefore understand mean old network admins.
The problem with big companies who give us big bucks to develop web apps is that the firewall/security teams are totally unresponsive to requests from development teams. A lot of firewall teams act as if nothing is ever up for discussion, and 80 and 443 are all that will ever be. System security would be a lot stronger if the security teams worked along with development teams, but instead a ton of security teams have a fortress mentality, for both system security, and their own interactions - locking themselves away from contact. As a result, everything and anything will eventually be pushed thru 80 and 443.
Storagereview.com may be worth a perusal - they used to agree with you - but new data in their testbed 3.0 indicates a high drive cache hit rate. Also, western dig now has a IDE "special edition" drive with 8meg cache - and a pretty good performance bump as a result (which also seems to hold up SR's new belief re: high drive cache hit rate). If > 2 meg IDE drive mem caches become commonplace, these new ATA specs may be worthwhile.
That said, I do have my ATA 66 drive on my ata 33 controller on my bp6 cuz getting the highpoint ata66 is too much of a PITA.
the pc bios. If you think IBM is some paragon of open and cheap systems, I have a 80lb, MCA bus only IBM PS/2 model 80 to sell you, that originally retailed for at least 6k, IIRC, maybe 8k. IBM was forced downwards pricewise by those who figured out the pc bios and made clones. IBM tried to avoid that with proprietary foolishness - MCA, and it damn near killed them (that among a shopping list of bad decisions in the late 80s).
Is probably going to be piss poor devices for dsl/cable modem users. Cisco has had real trouble with some of their 6xx series dsl devices. Having 1 million poorly thought out (security wise) $100 devices on decent sized connections (cable/dsl) is probably just as dangerous as having 10000 poorly thought out 10k routers.
We have seen what code red and nimda did to cable modem segments. Cable is somewhat limited with a 2 megabit upstream limit per segment, so the real risk is just the segment blowing itself up, but enough devices on enough 2 megabit segments really starts to add up.
Cable companies need to realize: rushing out crappy cable boxes with insecurities (say to steal extra $$$ channels) is a threat only from smart hackers, and a potential loss of revenue (you don't know if they would buy those channels). Rushing out crappy cable/dsl modems can bring down segments, losing $40 a head across all those customers for that month (while my openbsd firewall was mildly annoyed, nimda brought down my mediaone segment for three full days+ = free month)
Interesting. Do you think we should advance meta-events polls that attempt to predict the future?
Example:
What is the most disgusting thing about Apple suing some guys who make an OSX looking WM?
1. That at the same time Apple execs are fellating Adobe and MS execs while looking for Aqua-ized versions of their apps.
2. Apple fan boys applauding apple's legal action in this week's news column after last week's news column calling out Adobe and MS for aqua-ized versions of their apps.
SImilar to my experience. I was investigating it on the Mac platform as Cisco is currently providing a mac vpn client for their 3000 concentrators. The desktop suite had all kinds of crap - and on the mac they didn't sell the components separately.
I am not honestly all that familiar with the ICC stuff. But from the surface, if you expect an ICC or an entity like it to be the supreme arbiter of such matters, the ensuing loss of sovereignty that the US as a nation could expect makes it politically unfeasible. Anything that would infringe on the US Supreme Court's role would effectively require US Constitutional amendments which would require 2/3rds majority in both houses of our congress, as well as approval by 3/4ths of our 50 states.
I honestly feel a lot of the US/european popular citizenry political rifts come from poor European understanding of how our governmental systems work. Our heavy systems of checks and balances require for reaching changes such as constitutional amendments to take *years* for approval. Europeans should not have been aghast at Bush's views on Kyoto - a few years ago when the Senate (the upper body of our congress who controls the power to approve international treaties by a 2/3rds vote) took an incredibly unpositive view of it = it was effectively screwed in the US. We do not have a parliamentary system like the UK (I am not familiar enough on continental variances in parliamentary systems to adequately discuss) where the current sitting body can with a majority vote enact far reaching constitutional change. The US and Europe simply have far different ideas of soveriegnty. Although the average American has no idea as to what the European Union entails, I rest assured that they would be generally horrified at the type of far reaching powers that the EU is garnering.
Anyhow, I wouldn't hold much stock in the Taliban's faith in international organizations: the arghan UN seat is not held by a Taliban rep, and they have consistently disregarded UN inquiries on a variety of issues
And previous British governments are responsible for the apartheid state of Northern Ireland that resulted in the resurgence of the IRA some 30 years ago, as well as effectively arming unionist paramilitaries. Why have you nothing to say about those wihte, nominally Christian terrorists?
There is not much for either side to be proud of for the 70s thru early 90s. What matters is where we are currently. Blair and Clinton made enormous progress in bringing the debate to the position where it is today: basically a political one, with the traditional armed paramilitaries having ceased action (with the exception of small offshoots on both sides). The fact that the IRA leadership even thinks that decommissioning is up for discussion, much less necessary, bespeaks of the enormous progress made in the past few years. Blair has been without peer as a British PM for making progress in the North, and I say this as a american republican whose politics and generally in disagreement with the labour party and the third way (whatever that is).
If you have actually been in Manhattan since 9/11, you would think that there was a war between the army/national guard and verizon on acct. of the number of vehicles both have in southern manhattan. The verizon presense is simply astounding.
A bunch of geeks getting 802.11b working so other geeks can walk around with the ipaq, or whatever the geek lust toy of the week is, uploading pictures= geek circle jerk. Verizon fixing regular people's phone lines= restoration of normalcy. Verizon has tons of temporary phone booths set up, etc, etc. 802.11b is valuable to *maybe* 1% of the NYC populace.
I think it is clear that Netcraft has a pretty weak methodology. There are some sites that are serving up default apache pages (I typically discover them as they are Redhat x.0 boxes infected with some worm or have been rooted, and some script kiddie is port scanning me), but there are *way* more unattended IIS installs. I want to know if NetCraft scans port 443 - I have two patched iis boxes that only have 443 open on the firewall.
For my gen ed classes, my experience was that I had classes you could never expect to have at a high school. Most high schools are either loathe to touch the subject matters (philosophy, religion, cross culture comparisons, etc), or can't dedicate the resources to the subject matters (art history, architecture, etc).
Did you actually read the list? Doesn't sound like it, since you make it sound like a radio station did it, instead of a company that owns hundreds of stations. Some of the banned songs are ridiculous.
Bin Laden being trained by the CIA has nothing to do with nothing. That information isn't very hidden. Would anything be different if the average US citizen knew that? Or what if the Russian had trained him? Do you really get the feeling that the US public is really worried about whoever did this's life story?
You go on with classic 90s leftist claptrap. We bomb people, and shit happens. Leftists moan. We don't bomb, and instead try to enact pressure via sanctions, and rules elect to let their people starve. And leftists moan. The ability of leftists to harvest new territory for moaning is unlimited.
And btw, with you oft repeated, non fact checked leftist bullshit indymedia tripe - its been proven that in that so called 1991 footage there is a palestinian kid running around in a collegiate football jersey of a player who played college ball 95-7. Instead of criticizing the mass media, why not also look within, and maybe not blindly accept and repeat non fact checked forwarded email allegations from some random South American professor as being some legitimate independent media source.
I am a MCSE who has a love/hate relationship with MS and their products. I really like Exchange.
A lot of exchange shops do stick to a 300-350 user limit per box for Exchange 5.5, but that is with the following conditions:
No real company has 10 meg mailbox limits
Until the current generation of tape backup (ultrium, superdlt) came out, having a mail database (priv.edb , the "priv in exchange speak) muuh bigger than 20 gig really alarmed people due to SLA's for restoration of service in a server corruption/failure scenario.
So, if you assume for their scenario that they were running E5.5, I would have put at least 1000 mailboxes per server, probably 1500, allowing me to max out at 15 gig priv. This would cut down the hardware costs considerably.
With exchange 2000, clustering is a lot more viable, and e2k also allows a lot more (up to 16, instead of 1) private stores (databases of email) per server. MS has had some issues with MAPI clients and clusters , so I am really hesitant to say how many more users I would put per box.
Overall though, I think its clear that if you have tons of users, linux on big iron can make a ton of sense. Comparing qmail/sendmail to exchange is somewhat unrealist on a features standpoint, but for the major league web email providers, big iron must be worth looking into.
I really think the 10 meg per user mail limit somewhat discredits the whole analysis though. Sounds way more like webmail than corporate mail
7200 rpm is not high rotation speed - 10k rpm scsi drives are in there 3rd generation, and a few 15k rpm drives have been out for a few months now. The IBM 60gxp series is simply dead in the water, read the forums at www.storagereview.com for more info.
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White collar workers generally don't do much that necessitates the third dimension. You don't need a field of depth to read a memo on a 8.5x11 piece of paper. Spreadsheets? Users have enough time figuring out a x by y grid, lets not add z and test their spatial abilities.
ostiguy
Dude, what would the point of a trade show be if you were going to see stuff that is available? Thats like going to a strip club where all the dancers are ex-girlfriends.
ostiguy
Yes, I, a single netadmin, am well on my way to destroying TCP/IP.
.net that is vulnerable, and all hell will break loose as http becomes the big threat (as seen on the front of Infoweek/world/land, etc). A big market will result as companies throw proxies in front of their webservers , and in front of their end users internally to protect against this self generated menace.
SOAP is being pushed as an alternative to EDI, Corba, etc, etc (this isn't my area, remember, I am the netadmin trying to destroy tcp/ip). This is because firewall/security teams are not interested in working with (their company's) vendors to establish IPSec tunnels, or SSL tunnels for various apps. Instead of quicker binary transfer within a ssl or ipsec tunnel, stuff will be kludged into https, lest the firewall team's sensibilities be offended.
There will be a huge market for near (as near as one can get) wirespeed http proxies soon as a result. Pretty soon some one will build some hack with some beta of
ostiguy
I am a mean old network admin for a software consultancy company. I can therefore understand mean old network admins.
The problem with big companies who give us big bucks to develop web apps is that the firewall/security teams are totally unresponsive to requests from development teams. A lot of firewall teams act as if nothing is ever up for discussion, and 80 and 443 are all that will ever be. System security would be a lot stronger if the security teams worked along with development teams, but instead a ton of security teams have a fortress mentality, for both system security, and their own interactions - locking themselves away from contact. As a result, everything and anything will eventually be pushed thru 80 and 443.
ostiguy
Storagereview.com may be worth a perusal - they used to agree with you - but new data in their testbed 3.0 indicates a high drive cache hit rate. Also, western dig now has a IDE "special edition" drive with 8meg cache - and a pretty good performance bump as a result (which also seems to hold up SR's new belief re: high drive cache hit rate). If > 2 meg IDE drive mem caches become commonplace, these new ATA specs may be worthwhile.
That said, I do have my ATA 66 drive on my ata 33 controller on my bp6 cuz getting the highpoint ata66 is too much of a PITA.
ostiguy
What kind of drives does fibre channel use? Hint: it isn't ide, and I haven't seen many fibre channel interface drives lately.
ostiguy
the pc bios. If you think IBM is some paragon of open and cheap systems, I have a 80lb, MCA bus only IBM PS/2 model 80 to sell you, that originally retailed for at least 6k, IIRC, maybe 8k. IBM was forced downwards pricewise by those who figured out the pc bios and made clones. IBM tried to avoid that with proprietary foolishness - MCA, and it damn near killed them (that among a shopping list of bad decisions in the late 80s).
ostiguy
I believe the somewhat plausible explanation for "faster internet" is that windows media player has SSE and SSE2 optimizations
Is probably going to be piss poor devices for dsl/cable modem users. Cisco has had real trouble with some of their 6xx series dsl devices. Having 1 million poorly thought out (security wise) $100 devices on decent sized connections (cable/dsl) is probably just as dangerous as having 10000 poorly thought out 10k routers.
We have seen what code red and nimda did to cable modem segments. Cable is somewhat limited with a 2 megabit upstream limit per segment, so the real risk is just the segment blowing itself up, but enough devices on enough 2 megabit segments really starts to add up.
Cable companies need to realize: rushing out crappy cable boxes with insecurities (say to steal extra $$$ channels) is a threat only from smart hackers, and a potential loss of revenue (you don't know if they would buy those channels). Rushing out crappy cable/dsl modems can bring down segments, losing $40 a head across all those customers for that month (while my openbsd firewall was mildly annoyed, nimda brought down my mediaone segment for three full days+ = free month)
ostiguy
ostiguy
Best designed?
How bout them cracking cubes? Or warped TiBooks?
Apple just created a consumer electronic device that only works with 5% of computers out there. Great idea.
ostiguy
Datacenter can do 4 way active clusters- AS can only go 2 way.
ostiguy
Interesting. Do you think we should advance meta-events polls that attempt to predict the future?
Example:
What is the most disgusting thing about Apple suing some guys who make an OSX looking WM?
1. That at the same time Apple execs are fellating Adobe and MS execs while looking for Aqua-ized versions of their apps.
2. Apple fan boys applauding apple's legal action in this week's news column after last week's news column calling out Adobe and MS for aqua-ized versions of their apps.
ostiguy
I am saying 2 weeks. Should be the next slashdot poll.
ostiguy
You are just another *Master Baiter.
ostiguy
SImilar to my experience. I was investigating it on the Mac platform as Cisco is currently providing a mac vpn client for their 3000 concentrators. The desktop suite had all kinds of crap - and on the mac they didn't sell the components separately.
ostiguy
I am not honestly all that familiar with the ICC stuff. But from the surface, if you expect an ICC or an entity like it to be the supreme arbiter of such matters, the ensuing loss of sovereignty that the US as a nation could expect makes it politically unfeasible. Anything that would infringe on the US Supreme Court's role would effectively require US Constitutional amendments which would require 2/3rds majority in both houses of our congress, as well as approval by 3/4ths of our 50 states.
I honestly feel a lot of the US/european popular citizenry political rifts come from poor European understanding of how our governmental systems work. Our heavy systems of checks and balances require for reaching changes such as constitutional amendments to take *years* for approval. Europeans should not have been aghast at Bush's views on Kyoto - a few years ago when the Senate (the upper body of our congress who controls the power to approve international treaties by a 2/3rds vote) took an incredibly unpositive view of it = it was effectively screwed in the US. We do not have a parliamentary system like the UK (I am not familiar enough on continental variances in parliamentary systems to adequately discuss) where the current sitting body can with a majority vote enact far reaching constitutional change. The US and Europe simply have far different ideas of soveriegnty. Although the average American has no idea as to what the European Union entails, I rest assured that they would be generally horrified at the type of far reaching powers that the EU is garnering.
Anyhow, I wouldn't hold much stock in the Taliban's faith in international organizations: the arghan UN seat is not held by a Taliban rep, and they have consistently disregarded UN inquiries on a variety of issues
And previous British governments are responsible for the apartheid state of Northern Ireland that resulted in the resurgence of the IRA some 30 years ago, as well as effectively arming unionist paramilitaries. Why have you nothing to say about those wihte, nominally Christian terrorists?
There is not much for either side to be proud of for the 70s thru early 90s. What matters is where we are currently. Blair and Clinton made enormous progress in bringing the debate to the position where it is today: basically a political one, with the traditional armed paramilitaries having ceased action (with the exception of small offshoots on both sides). The fact that the IRA leadership even thinks that decommissioning is up for discussion, much less necessary, bespeaks of the enormous progress made in the past few years. Blair has been without peer as a British PM for making progress in the North, and I say this as a american republican whose politics and generally in disagreement with the labour party and the third way (whatever that is).
ostiguy
Ditto.
If you have actually been in Manhattan since 9/11, you would think that there was a war between the army/national guard and verizon on acct. of the number of vehicles both have in southern manhattan. The verizon presense is simply astounding.
A bunch of geeks getting 802.11b working so other geeks can walk around with the ipaq, or whatever the geek lust toy of the week is, uploading pictures= geek circle jerk. Verizon fixing regular people's phone lines= restoration of normalcy. Verizon has tons of temporary phone booths set up, etc, etc. 802.11b is valuable to *maybe* 1% of the NYC populace.
ostiguy
I think it is clear that Netcraft has a pretty weak methodology. There are some sites that are serving up default apache pages (I typically discover them as they are Redhat x.0 boxes infected with some worm or have been rooted, and some script kiddie is port scanning me), but there are *way* more unattended IIS installs. I want to know if NetCraft scans port 443 - I have two patched iis boxes that only have 443 open on the firewall.
ostiguy
For my gen ed classes, my experience was that I had classes you could never expect to have at a high school. Most high schools are either loathe to touch the subject matters (philosophy, religion, cross culture comparisons, etc), or can't dedicate the resources to the subject matters (art history, architecture, etc).
ostiguy
Did you actually read the list? Doesn't sound like it, since you make it sound like a radio station did it, instead of a company that owns hundreds of stations. Some of the banned songs are ridiculous.
No, 4 storage groups, each of which can contain 4 private stores and one public store.
ostiguy
Bin Laden being trained by the CIA has nothing to do with nothing. That information isn't very hidden. Would anything be different if the average US citizen knew that? Or what if the Russian had trained him? Do you really get the feeling that the US public is really worried about whoever did this's life story?
You go on with classic 90s leftist claptrap. We bomb people, and shit happens. Leftists moan. We don't bomb, and instead try to enact pressure via sanctions, and rules elect to let their people starve. And leftists moan. The ability of leftists to harvest new territory for moaning is unlimited.
And btw, with you oft repeated, non fact checked leftist bullshit indymedia tripe - its been proven that in that so called 1991 footage there is a palestinian kid running around in a collegiate football jersey of a player who played college ball 95-7. Instead of criticizing the mass media, why not also look within, and maybe not blindly accept and repeat non fact checked forwarded email allegations from some random South American professor as being some legitimate independent media source.
ostiguy
I am a MCSE who has a love/hate relationship with MS and their products. I really like Exchange.
A lot of exchange shops do stick to a 300-350 user limit per box for Exchange 5.5, but that is with the following conditions:
No real company has 10 meg mailbox limits
Until the current generation of tape backup (ultrium, superdlt) came out, having a mail database (priv.edb , the "priv in exchange speak) muuh bigger than 20 gig really alarmed people due to SLA's for restoration of service in a server corruption/failure scenario.
So, if you assume for their scenario that they were running E5.5, I would have put at least 1000 mailboxes per server, probably 1500, allowing me to max out at 15 gig priv. This would cut down the hardware costs considerably.
With exchange 2000, clustering is a lot more viable, and e2k also allows a lot more (up to 16, instead of 1) private stores (databases of email) per server. MS has had some issues with MAPI clients and clusters , so I am really hesitant to say how many more users I would put per box.
Overall though, I think its clear that if you have tons of users, linux on big iron can make a ton of sense. Comparing qmail/sendmail to exchange is somewhat unrealist on a features standpoint, but for the major league web email providers, big iron must be worth looking into.
I really think the 10 meg per user mail limit somewhat discredits the whole analysis though. Sounds way more like webmail than corporate mail
ostiguy
7200 rpm is not high rotation speed - 10k rpm scsi drives are in there 3rd generation, and a few 15k rpm drives have been out for a few months now. The IBM 60gxp series is simply dead in the water, read the forums at www.storagereview.com for more info.
ostiguy