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  1. Re:Certification Policies on Ask Slashdot: On the Job Certification Training? · · Score: 1

    CCIE Routing & Switching labs can mostly be virtualized now (switching is still a bit problematic but you only need about 4 3750-X switches not that expensive), it still is a very difficult exam I barely managed to pass on my second attempt. If you look around online you can also virtualize most of the CCIE Voice lab as well, with the exception of the voice gateways but the cost for these isn't too bad either. The worst of it all is the amount of time investment required to pass, it's just pure insanity. My R&S took a solid 8 months of preparation for two attempts, each exam attempt I also took two weeks off prior to the test and dedicated all of my time to 100% practicing. Honestly, looking back on it all....CCIE certification is NOT worth it!

  2. Re:Irony on Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm, Star Wars Episode 7 Due In 2015 · · Score: 1

    The Black Hole was "Faust" in space, I didn't really see it as a Star Wars rip-off. Also Maxamillion was far more terrorfying to me as a kid than Darth Vader ever was, a cold, unstoppable, silent killer robot that got up close and personal that would eviscerate you with spinning ginsu blades! The ending was totally surreal art-school with biblical overtones and space-opera mixed in, I'm shocked Disney even let that film through.

  3. Re:Basic martial arts. on D&D Monster Study Proves Eyes Have It · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Not true, many instructors (Sensai, Sifu etc) will tell you to stare at the centre of your opponent's chest. The eyes can lie, if look at the centre of the chest you get a better field of view of how an opponents limbs are moving which can allow you to react better against a feint or a true attack.

  4. 3D squint of pain! on Toshiba Develops 3-D Monocle · · Score: 1

    Is it just me or do all the photo's of the people wearing that thing look like they're squinting in massive pain. That or they're in the process of evacuating in their trousers due to immense 3D excitement!

  5. This tragedy isn't even over on Robert X Cringely Predicts More Mininuke Plants · · Score: 1

    And already people are trying to plan their new energy infrastructure, and nuclear power opponents are using this tragedy to push their agenda's. This is part of the real shame, these people need food, water, shelter and medical aid now...they're not ready to plan new infrastructure or fend off environmental activists.

  6. Re:I TOLD you. on Crime Writer Makes a Killing With 99 Cent E-Books · · Score: 1

    Would I steal something that "costs" $100? How about $1? Thats pretty much free. Less that two vending machine soda cans. I'm guessing the dollar store has a lot less shoplifting than "upscale" Target or Kohls.

    The cost of the item has little to do with whether or not people will steal it, have you ever ran a garage sale before? People try to steal everything, even if it's only 5 cents.

  7. No Shit Captain Obvious! on Study Shows Technology May Inhibit Good Sleep · · Score: 0

    WTF do you think the technology in an alarm clock is design for! Ummmm DUHHHHHH to interrupt my FSCKing sleep!

  8. Re:But.. But... on High-Bandwidth Users Are Just Early Adopters · · Score: 1

    No you don't necessarily need to upgrade your network. Classify your traffic, isolate the users with the greatest network demands and apply traffic policing to restrict their throughput.

  9. Re:This will be great! on Canadian Firm Plans 78-Satellite Net Service · · Score: 1

    I feel you are a bit optimistic in your latentcy figures, are you taking weather into account? I had to setup a satellite data feed a couple times in my career, anytime the sky became thick with clouds, a bad rain or snowstorm the signal strength degraded significantly. 10-12ms was rarely achievable.

  10. Re:Low success rate? on AMBER Alert Partners With Facebook · · Score: 1

    Being inefficient with tax payers money for a system that barely works, is not compassion. Could the money used used be put into an other program that could retrieve even more children.

    I'd like to see what happens if you expressed your opinion on this system being an inefficient waste of money to the parent's who got their children back from this system. Seriously what price tag do you place on life? One child, allowed to grow up, has the potential to change the world.

  11. Re:And for those not interested in reading TFA on Hubble Confirms Nature of Mysterious Green Blob · · Score: 1

    Science, schmience! Don't you know this is the end of the world as we know it? Hollywood, H.P. Lovecraft and the Mayans predicted our doom. This green cloud is elder god Azathoth growing, and slowly devouring the universe. Grab your tinfoil hats folks, pack food into your backyard bomb shelter and call NASA to find out when we need to duck and cover!

  12. Oh easy to make on Inventor Creates Flotation Device Bazooka · · Score: 1

    Take any ol' t-shirt cannon or spud gun and shove a life jacket into it done!

  13. Re:Well there's another side to that on Take This GUI and Shove It · · Score: 1

    I haven't seen the title of System or computer operator used since the late 80's. Maybe it's common in your neck of the woods? However most of the places I have traveled System Administrator is the standard title. You want to know what really gets me angry? Most companies use the title Network Administrator for what really is a Windows System Administrator role, my ability to setup VPN, OSPF and BGP has nothing to do with exchange or active directory.

  14. Re:Well there's another side to that on Take This GUI and Shove It · · Score: 1

    "Yes, there is, and very wrong. Maturity of current IT systems is still far away to what's needed to be able to work in aisles. A programmer doesn't need to be a top notch sysadmin nor the other way around, but they both need to have very clear ideas about the other's trade because is needed both to understand where your program is going to be run and how and what would make proper practices to acomodate the programs within a wider and partially peculiar local environment (and in order to recognize properly engineered programs from lame intents)."

    I disagree that all sysadmins require programming knowledge to be successful at their jobs, while it certainly helps to have this knowledge, it really depends upon the their role, the company they work for and the scope of their duties. Some companies use almost entirely pre-canned, purchased software applications to run in their environment without an inhouse dev team and support is a phone call away. Horses for courses after all, just my two cents.

  15. Re:I need glasses on MGM and Warner Near On Deal For Hobbit Films · · Score: 1

    I think you meant "struggled with Unicorns and a flood", that would make it a struggle of old testament biblical proportions.

  16. Re:Awesome News for Microsoft on OpenOffice.org Declares Independence From Oracle, Becomes LibreOffice · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah Germany uses it, it must be important! Remember this is the same country that brought us WW2, holocaust genocide and considers David Hasselhoff an awesome musician! How can they possibly be wrong about OpenOffice! ;)

  17. Re:Hmmm that'll do... on Plants Near Chernobyl Adapt To Contaminated Soil · · Score: 1

    They would protect you against Beta particle emitters, which are common in nuclear plants. Alpha yes, don't eat it or breath it in and you're usually fine. It's the Gamma you really have to be concerned about, for that you limit your exposure.

  18. Re:Hmmm that'll do... on Plants Near Chernobyl Adapt To Contaminated Soil · · Score: 1

    Depending on the level and type of radiation in the area, masks, goggles and gloves may actually be enough. Alpha particles are pretty much only dangerous if ingested or breathed in. Beta waves (very common in most nuclear plants) can almost be stopped by a piece of paper, and typically only your eyes and hands are at risk...hence the goggles and gloves. Gamma radiation, which is common in most nuclear reactor vaults, well there's not much you can do about that other than limiting your exposure. The nuclear symbol the three leafed Trefoil stands for three things: Time, Distance, Shielding.

  19. Re:If indeed, truly sad news on Xbox Head Proclaims Blu-ray Dead · · Score: 1

    According to your dystopian view of the future, the day this conspiracy finally happens and you "lose it" on society and end up in a water tower with a high powered rifle trying raise some awareness of what we lost...it won't matter, that news story will be retroactively ripped away and covered up by Big Brother. Get a grip, lighten up...maybe go out for a beer I assure you the world isn't coming to an end, nor are we losing all our rights and freedoms.

  20. Mcafee does far more than antivirus on Intel Buys McAfee · · Score: 1

    What makes you think this move was purely for their antivirus software? I see a lot of negative comments on here, all about their antivirus, look at their website...they do far more than that and have for years.

    Mcafee made some very smart acquisitions in the security appliance field, they have a gartner magic quadrant leading IPS appliance (only behind Tipping Point by a slight margin). Their firewall product is excellent, just not widely known about, and I'm told used by departments of the US government (military/FBI etc) it's a proxy based firewall something most firewalls on the market SHOULD do but don't.

  21. BRING OUT YER DEAD! BRING OUT YER DEAD! on Can Twitter and Facebook Deal With Their Dead? · · Score: 1

    Just send the wheelbarrow around to clean up the web corpses.

    But I'm not dead yet!

  22. Re:Thank God! on Rubik's Cube Now Solvable in 20 Moves · · Score: 1

    "Yes, you're right, we should devote all our time to getting ourselves to live longer, and none of our time to making our lives more interesting and enjoyable. That'll make a lovely world, won't it."

    Similar concept to those male sexual de-sensitizing products on the market that help improve a guy's stamina in bed. Have sex all night long and not feel a thing! What a concept!

  23. Re:Oh, Christ, Not This Tedious Tale Yet Again...! on Terry Childs Denied Motion For Retrial · · Score: 1

    You're only partially correct on this, you are wrong in the aspect that the network configs weren't saved to flash they were. The network configs WERE protected from standard password recovery procedures, what made them difficult to break into was he disabled password recovery on all the network hardware and saved that into the configuration onto the flash.

  24. Re:NO gig-e low # ports and pci bus for most of th on Open Source Router To Replace WRT54GL? · · Score: 1

    It's not just a CPU/speed issue, even high powered Cisco routers will have Gig-E speeds clobbered if the MTU isn't tweaked to support "Jumbo" frames (9000 vs legacy 1500) The best speed tests on a "Gig-E" link with an MTU of 1500 at best will deliver around 650Mbps to 750Mbps of throughput. Many networks haven't been reconfigured to allow for Jumbo sized frames, hell most computers don't enable it either (usually something in your network card settings must be manually enabled to allow them as they are disabled by default). You also have to factor in TCP window sizing too, sending large packets through is more efficient than sending smaller packets (less router CPU overhead). What is your bandwidth test using as your yardstick? All of this will affect your testing.

  25. Another message from a stupid local BAND! on MySpace Trying To Regain Lost Ground With Games and Music · · Score: 1

    Even with the damn checkbox "I don't want to receive messages from bands" checked, you still get band spam. Myspace started out moderately fun, then became way too bloated, slow and flashy. Facebook is starting to turn out similarly, started out lean and mean and people fled there from myspace...now it's starting to get way too bloated, slow and flashy (but still nowhere near as bad as Myspace). History will repeat itself again once the new MyBook.com (or whatever it's called) comes along that is fast, light and easy. Myspace will then die and Facebook will be in the same boat as Myspace is in now....and no it won't be Twitter.