US elections have dozens of individual races all being voted on at the same time.
There's an outside the bounds of the protocol solution to that problem...
The situation is worse with write-in candidates.
Only 0.001% of voters write someone in. They get old fashioned paper ballots and no receipt. Again a problem that exists outside the bounds of the protocol solution.
One way to do it is print a random number on every ballot
Aside from the other two complaints it fails a third way in ballot stuffing. I voted random number 23520. There's 4000 vote numbers printed but my district only has 3000 residents WTF. My cruddy protocol works around that because it uses collections of previous ballot numbers. Of course my cruddy protocol has an obvious bootstrapping problem.
No, not like BOFH in that I never intentionally F-ed anyone up for fun and always operated in everyone's best interest, best as I could. Telecom is a tiny world and I'll be coworkers with "competitors" a hell of a lot longer than I'll be working for any individual employer. Yes was like BOFH in that I was easily capable of anything I wanted to do some of which occasionally got a little "Apocalypse Now heads on stakes", was grouchy almost all of the time, and finally got pretty sick of it. Overall glad I don't do that anymore. Most of my individual memories of it are highly negative, although at the time it was overall kinda fun, donno if that makes any sense. It was fun when I didn't have to shout at people, unfortunately most of my job productivity was shouting at people, is I guess how I'd phrase it. Don't miss rotating pager duty at all.
Unfortunately, if you remove "and experienced", because not all are, that would both be pretty much true and make a decent tee-shirt.
"peer" is actually not a bad phrase, literally. I'm (or I was) a "peer" WRT to other operators in that neither of us are in each others org charts, but we can do WWI diplomacy and we are kind of stuck with each other on the same internet...
The best training for a network operator is probably diplomacy related board/war games. A couple games of "Avalon Hill's Diplomacy" is probably about as close to high level network operating as most people are going to get. Once you learn how to use the basic tools, its much more of a "people" job than something like generic programming.
STEM degrees, as well as law and medical doctorals help people from low-income backgrounds and families have rich and successful lives
Don't we have a political system where the two major parties are strongly in opposition to that goal?
The govt or buying mass marketed products from megacorps are supposed to provide all the warm and fuzzies, not education.
Don't get me wrong, I say good for you. Just saying the powers that be hate what you did, so you can expect opposition from them, active or passive. You're supposed to join their constituency as a victim, not stand on your own two feet.
the "wait list" is an opportunity cost associated with maintaining their brand image
Not just an opportunity cost but a simple straight up marketing cost. My wife was on the waiting list for Republic Wireless for something like 10 months, and believe me everyone locally heard about it, over and over. Marketing can't buy that kind of coverage.
I'm buying a Harley, I have a Harley, I crashed my Harley, I'm doing something else, thats like two months free marketing. Add a nice 1 year wait list and thats 14 months free marketing to friends and family.
Well that's not terribly insightful, kind of like saying if it were not for silicon valley, California would just be migrant strawberry pickers. Or if you exclude NYC, new york state isn't much more than Pennsylvania.
I lived in Huntsville in the early 90s, it was quite the scene. Pity about all the security clearances.
H1B (or the way I like to think of myself: a human being making his living)
Whoops there's your mistake. When its just you and me talking, duh, we're both human beings. When its money and business and corporations talking, a H1B is merely an indentured servant to be abused far worse than any normal employee would tolerate... what are you going to do, quit and be deported and sent back to some hellhole? The logical next step is to treat all your citizen coworkers like crap because they can also be replaced with other H1Bs who "don't mind" being treated like crap relative to being deported.
Its very important for you to understand you're not getting depersonalized by ME or any other unhappy citizen... you (and the remaining citizens in your department) are getting depersonalized by the H1B visa itself and the boss who hired you. The "divide and conqueror" strategy succeeds when you and I fight... really we should cooperate (unionize?) and fight the real villains who don't want to treat both of us like human beings anymore.
Nobody's processor limited anyway in most situations, so who cares if a FPGA core is a bit slower than dedicated hardware or ASICs, and when you are processing limited, nothing shovels like totally custom FPGA application specific code. So don't buy a hardware processor (other than microcontroller level bootloaders etc) just stick a couple really big FPGAs in there and let er rip.
You want an intel core, fine load one of the multiple FPGAs with an intel compatible core. Compressing video? F that simulated intel core stuff, do it directly in FPGA hardware, probably faster than realtime. Want a bit accurate simulation of an iphone for dev work? Load one of the multiple FPGAs with a FPGA version of an iphone.
I get the feeling that upstreams should start to not completely trust BGP announcements from peers.
Start? This was BAU at respectable ISPs a decade ago. Guess what I was doing at that time, endless Fing around with filtering. Bureaucratic level varied a lot over time but when I left that part of the biz it was crystallizing around something like the 800 number letter of agency process, where you need a company officer to fax a signed sheet verifying thats really your space and yes we really do have permission to advertise it. At least at that time ARIN did not do dun and bradstreet numbers and there's no way to verify via whois and everyones merging, so we needed that signed letter to protect us legally just as much as the internet needed it so we could protect the internet from them. At least as I recall.
Basically if you are "Ford dealer of chicago" I have no legal idea if you're allowed to advertise ARIN's ford.com space, but if we have a LOA then at least if it all hits the legal fan we have a signed letter from a corporate officer at the dealership to get us off the hook (at least partially) when the real ford goes after us, or at least we can tell the "real ford" who to add to the lawsuit. Many a time I had to call the ARIN registered owners to verify an apparently unrelated minion should be advertising some of their space. Sometimes yes, sometimes no. It was always an entertaining conversation. Except for when the ARIN contact info was invalid. Then the swearing began.
Most of the time, obviously, its just a dude advertising additional space with identical ARIN contact info as the old space, so it doesn't come to this level of paperwork.
I don't know if the situation has gotten better or worse since the mid 00s.
but the closer to the core you get the larger the list of potentially valid ASes
Ah but that's not where you need it. At least not for black hole events like this. If I'm properly filtering at the border, I don't need to filter in the middle, in fact it shouldn't ever be even theoretically necessary and its none of the cores business what business deal I've signed at the border anyway. Also god help us there were people trying to what amounts to dynamically load balance and disaster recovery using BGP, not necessarily a "stable" situation anyway. Route flap dampening is enough of a PITA.
Yes, someone at Moratel screwed up, but this is exactly why upstream ISPs should never allow advertisements from their customers for networks that their customer does not control.
Another important point is its twenty freaking twelve and at a "respectable" ISP this was part of my job a decade ago. Too many customers try advertising too much stupid space. Rule number one for a BGP operator... never trust whats incoming from nobody. Rule number two is when you call in for support and 1st level call center tells you to reboot everything, tell them to F off and transfer directly to my desk unless you want to learn the joys of route flap dampening. Rule 2 is hilarious when there's a genuine catastrophic failure and like 30 customers all want to talk to me personally because all their sessions dropped when the Juniper caught fire or whatever it was... so beware.
There are only three things funnier than a fat finger BGP route advertisement: 1) Why can't I advertise my old/28 from AT&T on your network? Well dumbass thats their space not "your"/28, and secondly on the civilized internet everyone filters at/24 or bigger to keep out the riff raff so even if I was dumb enough to advertise a subnet of another ISPs space, no one gonna see it past our borders. 2) Multihomed people who basically accidentally try to turn themselves into a transit network. Oh, you connect to L3? How nice. You don't really want to advertise that the whole freaking internet can route thru you to reach it, do you? 3) Advertising space in BGP, maybe redistributing a static or null route, doesn't mean you can actually route it on your internal network. OK I see your measly little/20 and now that you let me know to update our filters, we can all see it via us on any looking glass in the world. Yes I'm quite sure it doesn't work and no its not BGPs fault, go fix your internal routing protocol and filters and GTF off my phone so I can go back to sleep. No for the 20th time its not a BGP problem just look at the looking glass I'm not filtering you anymore.
The primary problem is BGP is a social layer 8 protocol for how network managers... manage. You don't learn that shit in a weekend training class where they teach you the exact syntax of "show ip bgp neighbor" or by memorizing AS path regex syntax or whatever. At least up till I got out of the business half a decade ago, no one was teaching anything like "this is how to use BGP while not making an ass outta yourself" class. No book either. I think "Internet Routing Architectures" and maybe the name Halabi sticks in my mind as a good theoretical book as I recall, but no one had a practical "real" hands on class or book. I suppose I shouldda done something about that but its been a long time now. Then again I've probably forgotten more about BGP that most one week CCNP bootcampers will ever know, so maybe its not too late anyway. Another "in my infinite spare time" project.
Sorry if I've offended any/.er I've actually talked to on the job who Fed up, nothing personal... But since I carefully identified noone by name, at least no one knows you Fed up. If today I failed to offend anyone who Fed up while I was doing front line BGP support then I'll try harder next time. BGP is kind of the network engineering version of giving little kids boxes of matches. Its surprising more networks don't burn down, but boxes of matches are so blasted useful if you actually know how to use them safely so its not like we'll ever get rid of it.
I'm unimpressed with the two replies so far. He's an idiot, he's not sane, it's got authority just because (like a medieval magic scroll, the magic power comes from the ink or something), we shouldn't, he's part of the problem, he's wrong, its critical, for many reasons, he sounds 15 (actually he's an old man, even by my graying standards). No logical arguments against him at all. May as well be trying to recruit me to a religion.
Rather than 10 lame knee jerk rebuttals, try just one real one. Just a tiny little one?
Closet. Ventilation is important. One shelf per machine / setup. Long USB cables and video/VGA/DVI/whatever floats your boat from the closet to the KVM on the desk. All monitors and trackballs/mice are wired direct not thru the KVM (so I guess its just a K switch). Audio in/out run thru a mixer (long story) The K we're discussing is an IBM model M with a USB converter (adapters don't work w/ something this old). The wiring on the desk doesn't look so icky when its basically just KVMA, a keyboard, some pointer devices, and a nice pair of speakers. Inside the closet, use some discipline and it'll be OK.
I built a small wood shelf the monitors live on, and shove the keyboard and pointing devices under the shelf when not in use. Looks clean. This also raises the monitors to the perfect ergonomic height... at least perfect for me, and my desk.
In the old days analog VGA required some pretty careful routing and quality cables not to ruin signal quality, and some cards had weaker outputs than others WRT extensions. Also had to fight CRT magnetic interaction which was pretty annoying. In the digital era its boring simple, childs play really.
Everything with a fan lives in the closet. Not silent, but very quite.
live with him for 4x more years ruining your country.
LOL I'm not voting for the guy, but the R party really shot themselves in their foot by spending 4.5 years of every village idiot emailing and FB and G+ stuff about, sure, the kenyan marxist muslim hasn't grabbed our guns and sent in the UN troops YET, but I heard next week he's gonna start... and 200 odd weeks of the crying wolf stuff absolutely makes them a laughingstock. I suspect if "O" wins we'll have to suffer thru another 200 weeks of weekly emails about how "O" is gonna open up the UN concentration camps for gun owners starting "next week".
He's got issues... He's just a lapdog of the 1% banking elite, they say "jump, O" and he says "how high, master?". His R opponent is even worse being a corrupt 1%er himself. So, the devil's tame quisling lapdog, or the devil himself? I'll vote Johnson instead.
You can't be bothered to look up referendums and local races, so I can't be bothered to do it for you, but often there's school funding bonds and school boards and stuff like that to vote for where you might have an impact even if, as you say, the presidential portion of the ballot is, for your location, utterly meaningless.
If it is meaningless, I think you should vote Johnson like I'm going to. You've obviously got nothing to lose. I respect the decision, although disagree, with a friend who's voting for the Green Party candidate. Anybody's better than the D's and the R's so any vote for someone other than D or R is always good vote.
I'm voting for Johnson, and I live in a very close swing state, and I truly hope the balance hangs on less votes than the 3rd parties get, but I like Rozeff's article anyway.
Two choice quotes by Mr Rozeff:
"I don't believe in representative government under our Constitution. The Constitution has no legitimate authority over me. I have never signed off on it."
"I do not wish to endorse a system that has produced and continues to produce what I think are pragmatically bad results."
I particularly like the first quote. Kind of mind expanding. The D and R parties want to use the constitution as toilet paper, other than the R have been beating the drum for almost 5 years that Obama is a Kenyan, and that little clause about prez being native born is sacred, but the rest of the constitution and BoR is just used Charmin so don't worry about it. Yet in the long run, what do I care for or against the constitution, Like Rozeff writes, I never signed the damn thing anyway and if I wrote it, it would look a bit different. So as a thought experiment, say he came from Kenya, what do I care, the cleaning lady at work is an illegal el salvadorian and no one cares much and its not my rule, nor do I much care about that particular rule.
There's been a couple other good articles along these lines on zerohedge recently, but I didn't save the links. Oh well.
I use a free competitor called ajaxterm to get around firewall insanity. So if the local restaurant blocks all SSH connectivity as a hacking tool (idiots), in fact only lets thru 80 and 443, this is perfect. Well, if the target machine didn't have a web server on it I could run SSH on 443 and connect to it, but if the whole point of the machine is web serving then I can't very well remove the SSL web server and stuck sshd on port 443.
This is not a daily thing, but more an OMG emergency back door when all else fails thing. My advice is put it under a mysterious URL, its too easy to scan "whatever.com/ajaxterm" on a guess, and don't link to it.
I've also used it in presentations, all I need on the client machine connected to the projector is a standard web browser. No admin rights to install stuff, etc. Just go to this page.. which doesn't work... then ask why the heck they are using MSIE 5.0 or whatever in 2012.. etc. But it does work great with a "modern" "real" browser.
but you will know no one from IT director to to CEO that makes 80k
LOL! Thats hilarious! If your job involves, say, doing anything in a IDE thats about right at least for entry level, maybe a little high for zero experience. If you actually know what you're doing, thats probably about right. High end experienced admin, sure, as opposed to low end helpdesk replacing broken mice. Noob 1st level lead or foreman/supvr is right around that pay range. Noob to mid-range DBA like about "I know how to type CREATE INDEX" level. A guy who actually knows what he's doing with a router, like if you know the prioritization of routes in BGP and how to manipulate them to bend to your will, or can understand a show database of a OSPF area (like CCNP level not so much CCNA level)
There are no "director" level personnel below $100K at any place I've worked since the 90s.
45k a good salary
LOL I resemble that remark... two decades ago at my first "real" job. Pay raises come fast in the early years, not so fast anymore.
I will say that the bigger the company the higher the pay. So you probably can find an IT guy working practically as a volunteer at a startup. But that doesn't mean the guy at the bank slamming cobol all day isn't hauling down extremely low 6 figs or at least extremely high 5 figs.
Another thing is you have to know people. Ex.mil, school, stuff like that. This outta the blue recruiter stuff you hear about on the coasts pretty much doesn't happen.
There tends to be underemployment. If you have a CCNA you might not get a CCNA-level job you might just pull and terminate cable for $15/hr (or $40/hr if you're a journeyman electrician doing cat-5 on the side or whatever it is now). Maybe "everyone" on the coasts with a CCNP magically gets a CCNP level job, not so much here. The bottom third of the CS dept grads end up on helpdesk replacing mice.
Other simple examples: I'll borrow the money to buy a pallet of ipads, and the cost is the interest on the wholesale price. That interest cost goes up perfectly linearly with the wholesale cost of a pallet of ipads.
It doesn't matter if you paper over it by calling it net30 and raising the price to hide the interest cost inside the wholesale price, one way or another its baked into the cake and someones gotta pay it.
Also see insurance premiums and shrinkage loss and commissioned sales people (and wholesale buyers), three other generally perfectly linear expenses that go up with price.
LOL how do you think the "average person with better things to do with their time" votes anyway, regardless of all this camera BS? I'm not seeing the camera as being an issue, with those folks.
Let's just hand them a receipt with a checksum on it, which can't be decrypted, but can show whether vote was tampered with by some Diaboldical CEO who promised to deliver votes to a certain candidate.
Your receipt has ten random ballot numbers and votes on it. Each receipt is guaranteed to have a vote for each candidate. Only you know which ballot number was actually yours.
Your receipt shows that ballot #10 voted for Johnson, published list on a website shows ballot #10 voted for Johnson, your receipt lists 10 ballots only one of which was yours, #10. You're the only guy in the world who knows ballot #10 is you. Feel free to look down the column of other voters to tell an intimidator your ballot number was any # who voted for who the intimidator wants you to vote for. As long as you can't PROVE you've voter #10 its all good. Elderly voting helper tosses three serial numbered ballots on the table, pick one. Then he tosses another on the table, 3-card monte's them, next guy picks one. Repeat. About all you know for certain is if I'm the 500th person to vote, my number is 500 or below.
How do you prove the ballot box isn't stuffed? anyone can sit on their rear and count the people thru the door, and if 700 people walk thru the door there better not be serial numbers on receipts like "2352". Simplest way is each voter punches a big counter machine when they pick up a ballot. Or any private citizen can measure the height of the stack of ballots at any time, or something like that.
Bootstrapping the first ten ballots is an exercise for the implementor (hmm... don't print any 10 checksum receipts until 20 people vote?)
Ours are optically scanned ink on dead tree. Machine spits the ballot out if its obviously wrong. They spot check hand recount long after the electronic results are posted. Usually the handcount results match pretty well with the electronic results.
There seems to be a fixation with making it overly complicated by electronic counting first then print receipts then count the receipts separately blah blah. Just do the boring ole scantron thing, its so much simpler.
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Thats a very good idea, thank you AC
US elections have dozens of individual races all being voted on at the same time.
There's an outside the bounds of the protocol solution to that problem...
The situation is worse with write-in candidates.
Only 0.001% of voters write someone in. They get old fashioned paper ballots and no receipt. Again a problem that exists outside the bounds of the protocol solution.
One way to do it is print a random number on every ballot
Aside from the other two complaints it fails a third way in ballot stuffing. I voted random number 23520. There's 4000 vote numbers printed but my district only has 3000 residents WTF. My cruddy protocol works around that because it uses collections of previous ballot numbers. Of course my cruddy protocol has an obvious bootstrapping problem.
Crypto is serious hard CS.
Is that you?
No, not like BOFH in that I never intentionally F-ed anyone up for fun and always operated in everyone's best interest, best as I could. Telecom is a tiny world and I'll be coworkers with "competitors" a hell of a lot longer than I'll be working for any individual employer. Yes was like BOFH in that I was easily capable of anything I wanted to do some of which occasionally got a little "Apocalypse Now heads on stakes", was grouchy almost all of the time, and finally got pretty sick of it. Overall glad I don't do that anymore. Most of my individual memories of it are highly negative, although at the time it was overall kinda fun, donno if that makes any sense. It was fun when I didn't have to shout at people, unfortunately most of my job productivity was shouting at people, is I guess how I'd phrase it. Don't miss rotating pager duty at all.
Unfortunately, if you remove "and experienced", because not all are, that would both be pretty much true and make a decent tee-shirt.
"peer" is actually not a bad phrase, literally. I'm (or I was) a "peer" WRT to other operators in that neither of us are in each others org charts, but we can do WWI diplomacy and we are kind of stuck with each other on the same internet...
The best training for a network operator is probably diplomacy related board/war games. A couple games of "Avalon Hill's Diplomacy" is probably about as close to high level network operating as most people are going to get. Once you learn how to use the basic tools, its much more of a "people" job than something like generic programming.
LOL I'm talking about AS borders you're talking about map borders.
STEM degrees, as well as law and medical doctorals help people from low-income backgrounds and families have rich and successful lives
Don't we have a political system where the two major parties are strongly in opposition to that goal?
The govt or buying mass marketed products from megacorps are supposed to provide all the warm and fuzzies, not education.
Don't get me wrong, I say good for you. Just saying the powers that be hate what you did, so you can expect opposition from them, active or passive. You're supposed to join their constituency as a victim, not stand on your own two feet.
the "wait list" is an opportunity cost associated with maintaining their brand image
Not just an opportunity cost but a simple straight up marketing cost. My wife was on the waiting list for Republic Wireless for something like 10 months, and believe me everyone locally heard about it, over and over. Marketing can't buy that kind of coverage.
I'm buying a Harley, I have a Harley, I crashed my Harley, I'm doing something else, thats like two months free marketing. Add a nice 1 year wait list and thats 14 months free marketing to friends and family.
Well that's not terribly insightful, kind of like saying if it were not for silicon valley, California would just be migrant strawberry pickers. Or if you exclude NYC, new york state isn't much more than Pennsylvania.
I lived in Huntsville in the early 90s, it was quite the scene. Pity about all the security clearances.
H1B (or the way I like to think of myself: a human being making his living)
Whoops there's your mistake. When its just you and me talking, duh, we're both human beings. When its money and business and corporations talking, a H1B is merely an indentured servant to be abused far worse than any normal employee would tolerate... what are you going to do, quit and be deported and sent back to some hellhole? The logical next step is to treat all your citizen coworkers like crap because they can also be replaced with other H1Bs who "don't mind" being treated like crap relative to being deported.
Its very important for you to understand you're not getting depersonalized by ME or any other unhappy citizen... you (and the remaining citizens in your department) are getting depersonalized by the H1B visa itself and the boss who hired you. The "divide and conqueror" strategy succeeds when you and I fight... really we should cooperate (unionize?) and fight the real villains who don't want to treat both of us like human beings anymore.
Do something groundbreaking and just ship FPGAs.
Nobody's processor limited anyway in most situations, so who cares if a FPGA core is a bit slower than dedicated hardware or ASICs, and when you are processing limited, nothing shovels like totally custom FPGA application specific code. So don't buy a hardware processor (other than microcontroller level bootloaders etc) just stick a couple really big FPGAs in there and let er rip.
You want an intel core, fine load one of the multiple FPGAs with an intel compatible core. Compressing video? F that simulated intel core stuff, do it directly in FPGA hardware, probably faster than realtime. Want a bit accurate simulation of an iphone for dev work? Load one of the multiple FPGAs with a FPGA version of an iphone.
I get the feeling that upstreams should start to not completely trust BGP announcements from peers.
Start? This was BAU at respectable ISPs a decade ago. Guess what I was doing at that time, endless Fing around with filtering. Bureaucratic level varied a lot over time but when I left that part of the biz it was crystallizing around something like the 800 number letter of agency process, where you need a company officer to fax a signed sheet verifying thats really your space and yes we really do have permission to advertise it. At least at that time ARIN did not do dun and bradstreet numbers and there's no way to verify via whois and everyones merging, so we needed that signed letter to protect us legally just as much as the internet needed it so we could protect the internet from them. At least as I recall.
Basically if you are "Ford dealer of chicago" I have no legal idea if you're allowed to advertise ARIN's ford.com space, but if we have a LOA then at least if it all hits the legal fan we have a signed letter from a corporate officer at the dealership to get us off the hook (at least partially) when the real ford goes after us, or at least we can tell the "real ford" who to add to the lawsuit. Many a time I had to call the ARIN registered owners to verify an apparently unrelated minion should be advertising some of their space. Sometimes yes, sometimes no. It was always an entertaining conversation. Except for when the ARIN contact info was invalid. Then the swearing began.
Most of the time, obviously, its just a dude advertising additional space with identical ARIN contact info as the old space, so it doesn't come to this level of paperwork.
I don't know if the situation has gotten better or worse since the mid 00s.
but the closer to the core you get the larger the list of potentially valid ASes
Ah but that's not where you need it. At least not for black hole events like this. If I'm properly filtering at the border, I don't need to filter in the middle, in fact it shouldn't ever be even theoretically necessary and its none of the cores business what business deal I've signed at the border anyway. Also god help us there were people trying to what amounts to dynamically load balance and disaster recovery using BGP, not necessarily a "stable" situation anyway. Route flap dampening is enough of a PITA.
Yes, someone at Moratel screwed up, but this is exactly why upstream ISPs should never allow advertisements from their customers for networks that their customer does not control.
Another important point is its twenty freaking twelve and at a "respectable" ISP this was part of my job a decade ago. Too many customers try advertising too much stupid space. Rule number one for a BGP operator... never trust whats incoming from nobody. Rule number two is when you call in for support and 1st level call center tells you to reboot everything, tell them to F off and transfer directly to my desk unless you want to learn the joys of route flap dampening. Rule 2 is hilarious when there's a genuine catastrophic failure and like 30 customers all want to talk to me personally because all their sessions dropped when the Juniper caught fire or whatever it was... so beware.
There are only three things funnier than a fat finger BGP route advertisement: /28 from AT&T on your network? Well dumbass thats their space not "your" /28, and secondly on the civilized internet everyone filters at /24 or bigger to keep out the riff raff so even if I was dumb enough to advertise a subnet of another ISPs space, no one gonna see it past our borders. /20 and now that you let me know to update our filters, we can all see it via us on any looking glass in the world. Yes I'm quite sure it doesn't work and no its not BGPs fault, go fix your internal routing protocol and filters and GTF off my phone so I can go back to sleep. No for the 20th time its not a BGP problem just look at the looking glass I'm not filtering you anymore.
1) Why can't I advertise my old
2) Multihomed people who basically accidentally try to turn themselves into a transit network. Oh, you connect to L3? How nice. You don't really want to advertise that the whole freaking internet can route thru you to reach it, do you?
3) Advertising space in BGP, maybe redistributing a static or null route, doesn't mean you can actually route it on your internal network. OK I see your measly little
The primary problem is BGP is a social layer 8 protocol for how network managers... manage. You don't learn that shit in a weekend training class where they teach you the exact syntax of "show ip bgp neighbor" or by memorizing AS path regex syntax or whatever. At least up till I got out of the business half a decade ago, no one was teaching anything like "this is how to use BGP while not making an ass outta yourself" class. No book either. I think "Internet Routing Architectures" and maybe the name Halabi sticks in my mind as a good theoretical book as I recall, but no one had a practical "real" hands on class or book. I suppose I shouldda done something about that but its been a long time now. Then again I've probably forgotten more about BGP that most one week CCNP bootcampers will ever know, so maybe its not too late anyway. Another "in my infinite spare time" project.
Sorry if I've offended any /.er I've actually talked to on the job who Fed up, nothing personal... But since I carefully identified noone by name, at least no one knows you Fed up. If today I failed to offend anyone who Fed up while I was doing front line BGP support then I'll try harder next time. BGP is kind of the network engineering version of giving little kids boxes of matches. Its surprising more networks don't burn down, but boxes of matches are so blasted useful if you actually know how to use them safely so its not like we'll ever get rid of it.
I'm unimpressed with the two replies so far. He's an idiot, he's not sane, it's got authority just because (like a medieval magic scroll, the magic power comes from the ink or something), we shouldn't, he's part of the problem, he's wrong, its critical, for many reasons, he sounds 15 (actually he's an old man, even by my graying standards). No logical arguments against him at all. May as well be trying to recruit me to a religion.
Rather than 10 lame knee jerk rebuttals, try just one real one. Just a tiny little one?
Closet. Ventilation is important. One shelf per machine / setup. Long USB cables and video/VGA/DVI/whatever floats your boat from the closet to the KVM on the desk. All monitors and trackballs/mice are wired direct not thru the KVM (so I guess its just a K switch). Audio in/out run thru a mixer (long story) The K we're discussing is an IBM model M with a USB converter (adapters don't work w/ something this old). The wiring on the desk doesn't look so icky when its basically just KVMA, a keyboard, some pointer devices, and a nice pair of speakers. Inside the closet, use some discipline and it'll be OK.
I built a small wood shelf the monitors live on, and shove the keyboard and pointing devices under the shelf when not in use. Looks clean. This also raises the monitors to the perfect ergonomic height... at least perfect for me, and my desk.
In the old days analog VGA required some pretty careful routing and quality cables not to ruin signal quality, and some cards had weaker outputs than others WRT extensions. Also had to fight CRT magnetic interaction which was pretty annoying. In the digital era its boring simple, childs play really.
Everything with a fan lives in the closet. Not silent, but very quite.
live with him for 4x more years ruining your country.
LOL I'm not voting for the guy, but the R party really shot themselves in their foot by spending 4.5 years of every village idiot emailing and FB and G+ stuff about, sure, the kenyan marxist muslim hasn't grabbed our guns and sent in the UN troops YET, but I heard next week he's gonna start... and 200 odd weeks of the crying wolf stuff absolutely makes them a laughingstock. I suspect if "O" wins we'll have to suffer thru another 200 weeks of weekly emails about how "O" is gonna open up the UN concentration camps for gun owners starting "next week".
He's got issues... He's just a lapdog of the 1% banking elite, they say "jump, O" and he says "how high, master?". His R opponent is even worse being a corrupt 1%er himself. So, the devil's tame quisling lapdog, or the devil himself? I'll vote Johnson instead.
You can't be bothered to look up referendums and local races, so I can't be bothered to do it for you, but often there's school funding bonds and school boards and stuff like that to vote for where you might have an impact even if, as you say, the presidential portion of the ballot is, for your location, utterly meaningless.
If it is meaningless, I think you should vote Johnson like I'm going to. You've obviously got nothing to lose. I respect the decision, although disagree, with a friend who's voting for the Green Party candidate. Anybody's better than the D's and the R's so any vote for someone other than D or R is always good vote.
Why I Do Not Vote by Michael S. Rozeff
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff224.html
I'm voting for Johnson, and I live in a very close swing state, and I truly hope the balance hangs on less votes than the 3rd parties get, but I like Rozeff's article anyway.
Two choice quotes by Mr Rozeff:
"I don't believe in representative government under our Constitution. The Constitution has no legitimate authority over me. I have never signed off on it."
"I do not wish to endorse a system that has produced and continues to produce what I think are pragmatically bad results."
I particularly like the first quote. Kind of mind expanding. The D and R parties want to use the constitution as toilet paper, other than the R have been beating the drum for almost 5 years that Obama is a Kenyan, and that little clause about prez being native born is sacred, but the rest of the constitution and BoR is just used Charmin so don't worry about it. Yet in the long run, what do I care for or against the constitution, Like Rozeff writes, I never signed the damn thing anyway and if I wrote it, it would look a bit different. So as a thought experiment, say he came from Kenya, what do I care, the cleaning lady at work is an illegal el salvadorian and no one cares much and its not my rule, nor do I much care about that particular rule.
There's been a couple other good articles along these lines on zerohedge recently, but I didn't save the links. Oh well.
I use a free competitor called ajaxterm to get around firewall insanity. So if the local restaurant blocks all SSH connectivity as a hacking tool (idiots), in fact only lets thru 80 and 443, this is perfect. Well, if the target machine didn't have a web server on it I could run SSH on 443 and connect to it, but if the whole point of the machine is web serving then I can't very well remove the SSL web server and stuck sshd on port 443.
This is not a daily thing, but more an OMG emergency back door when all else fails thing. My advice is put it under a mysterious URL, its too easy to scan "whatever.com/ajaxterm" on a guess, and don't link to it.
I've also used it in presentations, all I need on the client machine connected to the projector is a standard web browser. No admin rights to install stuff, etc. Just go to this page.. which doesn't work... then ask why the heck they are using MSIE 5.0 or whatever in 2012.. etc. But it does work great with a "modern" "real" browser.
It seems to be more a competitor of ajaxterm than a competitor of putty.
ajaxterm occasionally "jams up" and certainly doesn't have all these features, so they have a market they can work.
but you will know no one from IT director to to CEO that makes 80k
LOL! Thats hilarious! If your job involves, say, doing anything in a IDE thats about right at least for entry level, maybe a little high for zero experience. If you actually know what you're doing, thats probably about right. High end experienced admin, sure, as opposed to low end helpdesk replacing broken mice. Noob 1st level lead or foreman/supvr is right around that pay range. Noob to mid-range DBA like about "I know how to type CREATE INDEX" level. A guy who actually knows what he's doing with a router, like if you know the prioritization of routes in BGP and how to manipulate them to bend to your will, or can understand a show database of a OSPF area (like CCNP level not so much CCNA level)
There are no "director" level personnel below $100K at any place I've worked since the 90s.
45k a good salary
LOL I resemble that remark... two decades ago at my first "real" job. Pay raises come fast in the early years, not so fast anymore.
I will say that the bigger the company the higher the pay. So you probably can find an IT guy working practically as a volunteer at a startup. But that doesn't mean the guy at the bank slamming cobol all day isn't hauling down extremely low 6 figs or at least extremely high 5 figs.
Another thing is you have to know people. Ex .mil, school, stuff like that. This outta the blue recruiter stuff you hear about on the coasts pretty much doesn't happen.
There tends to be underemployment. If you have a CCNA you might not get a CCNA-level job you might just pull and terminate cable for $15/hr (or $40/hr if you're a journeyman electrician doing cat-5 on the side or whatever it is now). Maybe "everyone" on the coasts with a CCNP magically gets a CCNP level job, not so much here. The bottom third of the CS dept grads end up on helpdesk replacing mice.
Other simple examples: I'll borrow the money to buy a pallet of ipads, and the cost is the interest on the wholesale price. That interest cost goes up perfectly linearly with the wholesale cost of a pallet of ipads.
It doesn't matter if you paper over it by calling it net30 and raising the price to hide the interest cost inside the wholesale price, one way or another its baked into the cake and someones gotta pay it.
Also see insurance premiums and shrinkage loss and commissioned sales people (and wholesale buyers), three other generally perfectly linear expenses that go up with price.
just voting the way your boss/church/union wants
LOL how do you think the "average person with better things to do with their time" votes anyway, regardless of all this camera BS? I'm not seeing the camera as being an issue, with those folks.
Let's just hand them a receipt with a checksum on it, which can't be decrypted, but can show whether vote was tampered with by some Diaboldical CEO who promised to deliver votes to a certain candidate.
Your receipt has ten random ballot numbers and votes on it. Each receipt is guaranteed to have a vote for each candidate. Only you know which ballot number was actually yours.
Your receipt shows that ballot #10 voted for Johnson, published list on a website shows ballot #10 voted for Johnson, your receipt lists 10 ballots only one of which was yours, #10. You're the only guy in the world who knows ballot #10 is you. Feel free to look down the column of other voters to tell an intimidator your ballot number was any # who voted for who the intimidator wants you to vote for. As long as you can't PROVE you've voter #10 its all good. Elderly voting helper tosses three serial numbered ballots on the table, pick one. Then he tosses another on the table, 3-card monte's them, next guy picks one. Repeat. About all you know for certain is if I'm the 500th person to vote, my number is 500 or below.
How do you prove the ballot box isn't stuffed? anyone can sit on their rear and count the people thru the door, and if 700 people walk thru the door there better not be serial numbers on receipts like "2352". Simplest way is each voter punches a big counter machine when they pick up a ballot. Or any private citizen can measure the height of the stack of ballots at any time, or something like that.
Bootstrapping the first ten ballots is an exercise for the implementor (hmm... don't print any 10 checksum receipts until 20 people vote?)
Still casting my vote on dead trees with ink.
and I hardly get much on myself in the process!
Ours are optically scanned ink on dead tree. Machine spits the ballot out if its obviously wrong. They spot check hand recount long after the electronic results are posted. Usually the handcount results match pretty well with the electronic results.
There seems to be a fixation with making it overly complicated by electronic counting first then print receipts then count the receipts separately blah blah. Just do the boring ole scantron thing, its so much simpler.