So, every time any individual has a slightly ulterior motive they should tattoo it on their forehead so that the sheep know better, is that what you are saying?
Boo freakin' hoo. Sounds like a classic case of mis-management on the behalf of the defense vendor. Any consultant, IBM included, will eat your lunch if you don't stay on top of them. One of my promary job responsibilities is keeping consultants focused on the project scope. It is part of a consultants job to try to get a bigger piece of a project, and if they have all the project, make the project bigger.
"Whenever management was trying to select a vendor, or even having second
thoughts about a vendor, this consultant would offer senior management the
solution to their problems. Management, in a hurry, would agree, happy to
have the matter resolved. The questions of whether IBM could deliver on
their promises or whether their bid was competitive went unasked."
Okay, management couldn't get their head out of their arse so they made a snap decision based on questionable information. Nice.
"Where was the technical staff during all of this? Staying out the way,
mostly. They knew that IBM was selling solutions two levels over their head,
and they didn't want any part of it."
The techies saw an impending clusterf*ck and decided to do a duck and cover rather than trying to intervene. Can't blame them, management types probably wouldn't listen, but if you've got a highly paid consultant whispering in your exec's ear and no one tries to present a counter-arguement, what do you expect?
"Upper management was very reluctant to move back the deadline because the project
had a lot of visibility, and executive bonuses were dependent upon completing the
project by the end of the year."
Okay, management had their bonuses on the line, so they stopped making sane decisions and started spending the companies money to make their own.
The story goes on much like this. Yeah, you got hosed. IBM saw, in military parlance, a target rich environment, and they were right. That sucks, the fact that those dollars come out of my pocket sucks(since they are a defense contractor all those dollars trace back to taxes). But don't play the part of the innocent bystander, management f*cked up. Period.
Oh? That's news to me. Most businesses I know get their Microsoft Licenses via one of their license programs. Typically you buy the license and upgrade assurance, after 3 years you lose the upgrade assurance, but still have the right to use that version of office you originally purchased.
We've purchased probably 100 - 150 GX270 and GX280 systems in the last year, no unusual issues seen with them. I don't get the fuss, everyone gets bad product from time to time. The important thing is how they deal with it, and it sounds like Dell is handling it.
And I doubt very much that this will cause anyone to rethink trying to shave pennies off a computer's price. Yes, this is costing Dell 300 million, and that sucks for them, but how many billions has Dell made by forcing down the price of their components?
Do you even have any idea what it is you're discussing here? This is two companies who had a business agreement, one company abused it and got smacked by the other company.
Think this is about the US? Why don't you look into France Telecom's de-peering of Cogent awhile back.
This is not an Internet thing in that it affects the entire Internet. It is an internetworking thing in that it affects the way two ISPs exchange data.
Sit your knee-jerk, loud-mouthed, over-opinionated, under-educated ass down and shutup until you can remove your head from where you have it stuck.
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So a project which was getting very little contribution from the OSS community is going to be forked into a different project that will get all sorts of support from the OSS community? Good luck with that.
I call BS. Computers aren't easy, and there is nothing out there today that makes them so. Windows is ill-mannered, Linux is complicated and can be ill-mannered. Computing today is complex, network computing even more so. It is currently possible to hide the complexity, but eventually the complexity rears its ugly head and you need someone to come along and fix things.
The internet is fragmented. China essentially has their own internet behind the "Great Firewall of China". Brazil sounds like they should probably look into this as well, since their population is so sensitive to the nastiness on the net.Those nations that are interested in keeping up the open and connected nature of the 'net will continue to do so.
The internet is about connecting networks, it's a technical thing. Once politics gets involved it's straight to hell for the 'net. The UN is a political organization. If you really want to turn the 'net over to someone else, give it to the ITU or some other technical body, not those ass-clowns.
Police departments do not operate on "open" frequencies. There are laws governing broadcasting on frequencies used by emergency personnel. On the other hand, the 2.4GHz frequency used by Wi-Fi gear is an "open" frequency.
Dial-up users are not the typical fare for Zombies, more due to their unpredictable behavior, sometimes they're on the net, sometimes not. However, the ability of a dial-up user to conduct a DoS should not be discounted. I can usually get at least 28.8 on a dial-up, let's call it 14.4 for arguments sake. At the rate you can saturate a T1 with a little over 100 zombies, you can drown out a 10M ethernet feed with a little over 700 zombies, and 3200 zombies will crush a T3. While all the attention is on the destructive power behind broadband users, the majority of users are still on dial-up and they are dangerous too.
The point, you nitwit, was that 10 years later MS is till providing updates, whereas Red Hat is only giving its OS a 5 year life-cycle. Additionally, if you bought Windows 95 10 years ago, you would have gotten 10 years of updates, free (at least in terms of dollars). Red Hat, on the other hand, has decided that getting security updates will cost you.
I'm a Linux fan, don't like the way Windows runs, don't like the business practices MS uses. However, I have some serious doubts about some of the decisions Red Hat is making.
(and since freakin' when did you have to start using one of those irritating Type This Seriously Obscured Text things to comments on Slashdot?)
No school will give you what you are looking for, and going to ITT or one of their MCSE generating ilk won't be any better. Go enroll at a local tech school or community college and get a certificate ofr 2 year degree from them. It won't guarantee continuous employment with no fear of job loss but you will get an equal or better education without pissing away a bunh of money.
Why would you think that the cities will do this and currently AT&T,MCI,Level3, etc. wouldn't or don't do this? Do you think that they value your privacy so much they wouldn't comply with such an order?
If the NSA wants your data, they're going to get it. A network such as this makes that no more or less likely.
Quite possibly the most asinine comment I've seen in quite awhile. For god sakes take a moment to touch down in the real world. There is no inalienable right to wi-fi Internet access, or to Internet access at all. There are costs to such matters and they will be paid in one fashion or another by someone. Far better that they are paid for by the individuals making use of the service than to contribute to the overall tax burden. I fully support the development of such networks, and as a resident of the minneapolis area I welcome this development, but it should not be another government program.
I do the same thing. However, I once had a guy who refused to take my credit card because he said if its not signed its not valid. I'm not sure whether this is true or not and its the only time I've had an issue with this.
any of the USB media devices should work. Typically I will plug into a network and use ssh/rsync/netcat/samba/$insertfiletransferutilityh ere to tranfer things to my laptop or some other appropriate machine.
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Hey, surprise, something sounded too good to be true and was! That's incredible.
...searches for more flamebait to spew
So, every time any individual has a slightly ulterior motive they should tattoo it on their forehead so that the sheep know better, is that what you are saying?
Good luck with that.
Boo freakin' hoo. Sounds like a classic case of mis-management on the behalf of the defense vendor. Any consultant, IBM included, will eat your lunch if you don't stay on top of them. One of my promary job responsibilities is keeping consultants focused on the project scope. It is part of a consultants job to try to get a bigger piece of a project, and if they have all the project, make the project bigger.
"Whenever management was trying to select a vendor, or even having second
thoughts about a vendor, this consultant would offer senior management the
solution to their problems. Management, in a hurry, would agree, happy to
have the matter resolved. The questions of whether IBM could deliver on
their promises or whether their bid was competitive went unasked."
Okay, management couldn't get their head out of their arse so they made a snap decision based on questionable information. Nice.
"Where was the technical staff during all of this? Staying out the way,
mostly. They knew that IBM was selling solutions two levels over their head,
and they didn't want any part of it."
The techies saw an impending clusterf*ck and decided to do a duck and cover rather than trying to intervene. Can't blame them, management types probably wouldn't listen, but if you've got a highly paid consultant whispering in your exec's ear and no one tries to present a counter-arguement, what do you expect?
"Upper management was very reluctant to move back the deadline because the project
had a lot of visibility, and executive bonuses were dependent upon completing the
project by the end of the year."
Okay, management had their bonuses on the line, so they stopped making sane decisions and started spending the companies money to make their own.
The story goes on much like this. Yeah, you got hosed. IBM saw, in military parlance, a target rich environment, and they were right. That sucks, the fact that those dollars come out of my pocket sucks(since they are a defense contractor all those dollars trace back to taxes). But don't play the part of the innocent bystander, management f*cked up. Period.
Oh? That's news to me. Most businesses I know get their Microsoft Licenses via one of their license programs. Typically you buy the license and upgrade assurance, after 3 years you lose the upgrade assurance, but still have the right to use that version of office you originally purchased.
There's always gotta be one guy who takes the joke too far.
We've purchased probably 100 - 150 GX270 and GX280 systems in the last year, no unusual issues seen with them. I don't get the fuss, everyone gets bad product from time to time. The important thing is how they deal with it, and it sounds like Dell is handling it. And I doubt very much that this will cause anyone to rethink trying to shave pennies off a computer's price. Yes, this is costing Dell 300 million, and that sucks for them, but how many billions has Dell made by forcing down the price of their components?
Isn't it a realtively well known fact that Ellison is a bastard to work for?
Important applications should not be run on single homed networks.
Do you even have any idea what it is you're discussing here? This is two companies who had a business agreement, one company abused it and got smacked by the other company.
Think this is about the US? Why don't you look into France Telecom's de-peering of Cogent awhile back.
This is not an Internet thing in that it affects the entire Internet. It is an internetworking thing in that it affects the way two ISPs exchange data.
Sit your knee-jerk, loud-mouthed, over-opinionated, under-educated ass down and shutup until you can remove your head from where you have it stuck.
form of PDF != PDF
So a project which was getting very little contribution from the OSS community is going to be forked into a different project that will get all sorts of support from the OSS community? Good luck with that.
I call BS. Computers aren't easy, and there is nothing out there today that makes them so. Windows is ill-mannered, Linux is complicated and can be ill-mannered. Computing today is complex, network computing even more so. It is currently possible to hide the complexity, but eventually the complexity rears its ugly head and you need someone to come along and fix things.
The internet is fragmented. China essentially has their own internet behind the "Great Firewall of China". Brazil sounds like they should probably look into this as well, since their population is so sensitive to the nastiness on the net.Those nations that are interested in keeping up the open and connected nature of the 'net will continue to do so.
The internet is about connecting networks, it's a technical thing. Once politics gets involved it's straight to hell for the 'net. The UN is a political organization. If you really want to turn the 'net over to someone else, give it to the ITU or some other technical body, not those ass-clowns.
BS. You have no need for a packet filter. A properly designed proxy firewall can help prevent attacks against the services you do allow through.
Police departments do not operate on "open" frequencies. There are laws governing broadcasting on frequencies used by emergency personnel. On the other hand, the 2.4GHz frequency used by Wi-Fi gear is an "open" frequency.
Dial-up users are not the typical fare for Zombies, more due to their unpredictable behavior, sometimes they're on the net, sometimes not. However, the ability of a dial-up user to conduct a DoS should not be discounted. I can usually get at least 28.8 on a dial-up, let's call it 14.4 for arguments sake. At the rate you can saturate a T1 with a little over 100 zombies, you can drown out a 10M ethernet feed with a little over 700 zombies, and 3200 zombies will crush a T3. While all the attention is on the destructive power behind broadband users, the majority of users are still on dial-up and they are dangerous too.
The point, you nitwit, was that 10 years later MS is till providing updates, whereas Red Hat is only giving its OS a 5 year life-cycle. Additionally, if you bought Windows 95 10 years ago, you would have gotten 10 years of updates, free (at least in terms of dollars). Red Hat, on the other hand, has decided that getting security updates will cost you. I'm a Linux fan, don't like the way Windows runs, don't like the business practices MS uses. However, I have some serious doubts about some of the decisions Red Hat is making. (and since freakin' when did you have to start using one of those irritating Type This Seriously Obscured Text things to comments on Slashdot?)
No school will give you what you are looking for, and going to ITT or one of their MCSE generating ilk won't be any better. Go enroll at a local tech school or community college and get a certificate ofr 2 year degree from them. It won't guarantee continuous employment with no fear of job loss but you will get an equal or better education without pissing away a bunh of money.
screw 'em
"never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity"
Why would you think that the cities will do this and currently AT&T,MCI,Level3, etc. wouldn't or don't do this? Do you think that they value your privacy so much they wouldn't comply with such an order?
If the NSA wants your data, they're going to get it. A network such as this makes that no more or less likely.
Take your tinfoil hat off at the door.
Quite possibly the most asinine comment I've seen in quite awhile. For god sakes take a moment to touch down in the real world. There is no inalienable right to wi-fi Internet access, or to Internet access at all. There are costs to such matters and they will be paid in one fashion or another by someone. Far better that they are paid for by the individuals making use of the service than to contribute to the overall tax burden.
I fully support the development of such networks, and as a resident of the minneapolis area I welcome this development, but it should not be another government program.
I do the same thing. However, I once had a guy who refused to take my credit card because he said if its not signed its not valid. I'm not sure whether this is true or not and its the only time I've had an issue with this.
....duhn duhn duh!!!
any of the USB media devices should work. Typically I will plug into a network and use ssh/rsync/netcat/samba/$insertfiletransferutilityh ere to tranfer things to my laptop or some other appropriate machine.