No, actually I meant single user mode, runlevel 3. Come on... talk about a ridiculous claim. The thing would boot you right into CDE automatically. Except the resolution was too high and refresh rate way off. So you boot into single user mode and you can edit the config. This is not a difficult concept in the slightest. It's second hand for most people that have to do crash recovery on Linux, Solaris isn't all that different in that aspect.
It's just astounding, I tried to get everyone I knew to vote in 04 and 06. So many times I was faced with the I hate politics, it doesn't affect me. Then I start telling them horror stories about the government can now do to them and that it has done it to a lot of innocent people already. Of course a lot of not-so innocent people have been busted with this too. I can't help but wonder how many of them will have to go free because of the gross mishandling of the situation.
You make some fine points but verifying that they are being used as intended isn't enough. There needs to be steep penalties for misuse of the immense amount of power being given.
Of course in my mind the old rules were fine, there was sufficient information to prevent the tragedy much like like the events leading up to Pearl Harbor. The problem was communicating internally to get the right information to the right people at the right time. That doesn't take the PATRIOT Act with its far overreaching changes. Imagine how many billions have been spent because of it and how little it has accomplished to help us. I can't believe that in modern times we still have the same problems with communication. An f'in email could have prevented all of this from happening.
Of course none of this would have been an issue if Congress had been doing it's job initially. There's the real broken link. The wiretapping programs are simply absurd. There is no way to reasonably interpret the constitution to allow such things. The constitution is a document which specifically states what the government can do to us. There is simply no language in there that would allow this invasion of privacy. Combine that with all the search and seizure changes involved in the war on drugs and you've got yourself a pattern. I wish it was as simple as republican versus democrat but there is a long history of this abuse and more laws aren't going to fix it. Someone needs to enforce the laws we already have. We need to get rid of the PATRIOT Act, repeal the war powers act, and get back to some semblance of sanity.
How in the world in this day and age can a president blatantly violate the constitution and remain completely unchallenged? It's simply astounding.
Actually yes it is a SQL 2005 thing although there was a way to do it SQL 2000 called Data cubes from my understanding. You end up having multiple data files just like you would in an Oracle situation. It's easier to explain in Oracle terms as you'd just create a tablespace for column based tables and a tablespace for row-based tables. Then away you go, both storing files as you see fit.
I guess in SQL 2005 terms you'd be creating another database on the same server and just use server linking to get your data from one place to another. Either through an ISIS package or a SQL Job.
I agree completely. Reducing patent lengths to say three years which I believe was where it was originally would go a long way towards ending the problem. I think of course the same should happen for copyrights but I can see copyrights having a slightly longer possibly 7 year term although that seems too long for me.
I think everyone can agree that in it's current form the system has been polluted and no longer serves its intended purpose.
No, it was a brand new Sun box, the school didn't want to pay for the extras since it was already absurdly priced. Also, unless you're doing a 100k+ deal with them they barely give you the time of day if you are lucky.
I wasn't saying that was necessarily true of all Sun support but I've heard a lot of problem run into road blocks with them along similar grounds. You have to have specific combinations of products despite using standardized interfaces so any keyboard will work since it's USB but for some reason since I don't have the magic key on the keyboard it won't let you into single-user mode so you can edit the config and change the initial resolution.
Perhaps I should give Sun another try, but given how responsive NetApp is and that EMC wants to be a sponsor I doubt I'll have need for their products anytime soon.
You may be right, I've been seeing conflicting reports on the order in which this happened. Honestly though NetApp has been thrashing the whole industry over the last few years, I don't see what they would have to gain by this. Between Oracle and GoDaddy alone there is an enormous amount of NetApp storage out there. NetApp also seems more forthcoming with their side of the story indicating at first glance at least that they have nothing to hide.
Naturally appearances can be deceiving though. I know my experiences with NetApp have been a lot more positive than my experiences with Sun so perhaps my own bias is showing there.
Except that you are clearly ignorant about NetApp snapshots. They are very different from snapshots from other providers. I recently evaluated SANs from HP, EMC, and NetApp. NetApp was the most original and offered a lot of unique features including their snapshot technology. It's very non-obvious their implementation of it.
And another Bunch of white papers explaining why Oracle went with NetApp storage. There is a similar list for GoDaddy
NetApp is not SCO, they are only acting because Sun threatened them. They are most innovative big company I've seen in recent years. Their WAFL implementation is pretty damned impressive especially when combined with Flexclone and their other Snapshot products.
That's interesting because our 2040 filers cost about that and came with 30TB of online capacity. Did you price the whole deal with SAS drives or something? I split it up and have some SAS drives for high speed front-end storage and the rest are 750gig SATA for archiving.
As opposed to the situation now? He who has the money makes the rules, that's the system we currently use. Those with the most money have the most patents and can sue anyone into oblivion. Surely there has to be some middle ground here.
We recently began a deployment of a couple of NetApp filers, the 2040 and 3040 ranges. They are mighty great to work with from my experience so far. The software is very easy to use and understand and NetApp support has been stellar thus far. They move a lost faster than EMC from the looks although EMC's storage offerings are mighty impressive as well.
Storage is a rough business but the SAN I'm deploying this year paves the way for virtualized servers next year which I'm excited about. With VMWare's ACE I'm not even sure Tripwire is needed anymore.
Also it seems as though NetApp was rather nice about this whole patent thing from the get go. It wasn't until Sun threatened them that they acted and again acted fairly preferring a cross licensing deal rather than any cash payout in either direction.
Sun support in my experience has been a pain in the ass. I remember trying to modify the startup resolution on a box since I didn't have a Sun monitor or keyboard. They would not help me over the phone since it was a none Sun keyboard even though they had no problem with a non-Sun monitor. I did a key mash to figure out the stop key on boot to get me in. That was the last time I played with anything from Sun. That was about 4 years ago. Mileage may vary but I've not heard anything positive more recently. I am a fan of ZFS though, I wish it weren't mired in this crap but Sun started the fight and attacked a gorilla. The reaction had to be expected.
The beautiful part about the enterprise deployments is the ability to just plug in to the wired network. This will then automatically grab the policies and certificates needed to connect to the wifi network assuming the workstation/user combo are authorized. This is exceedingly easy to setup for small companies and can be done with only a single server and a managed switch. 802.1x authentication is transparent to the user if it is done right. Microsoft makes it mighty easy to do. FreeRADIUS and OpenLDAP on the Linux side are pretty simple as far as Linux alternatives go. They are both well documented.
Of course me being the geek I am I have the same setup at my house in addition to four sites of the company I work for. If someone manages to compromise that level of security they can have free Internet, my hat is off to them.
Find yourself another doctor then. I'm sure Rush Limbaugh could refer you. People do it all the time. On second thought, you've got a good doctor, might want to keep them around.
Could you update Wiki then cause hyperfocus is not a symptom of ADHD?. There are a number of other conditions which only allow a person to focus on one thing at a time. It is fairly common in old age but it can happen at anytime. In short, if you were diagnosed with ADHD and you can play a game for a week then you were misdiagnosed. Any medication would only make it worse. You're describing what happens when a normal person takes Ritalin or Adorale (SP). Those in college often take it for that very reason.
Sounds good, my sister had three kids though. I think you're right though, my sister chose to stay home with the kids while my bro-in-law went and worked as much as he could to get ahead. The kids are still very young though and that is a very stressful time for parents. They don't know right or wrong at the age of 1 or 2 and you have to run after them constantly. Now they one niece is 7 and one niece is 3 things are getting better for them.
You're right that parents should do a cost analysis though, most situations I come across it's been less expensive just to have one of the parents stay home.
There is also a far cry from staying couped up with three kids all day everyday. My sister finds things for them to do that are inexpensive like apple picking and going to the park, various activities out in the town. They aren't that bad off but it's definitely stressful for them sometimes.
It's a shame you got modded as flamebait there but it is worth mentioning that those with actual ADD cannot play games for hours. The kids you are describing do not have it. A lot of parents pressure doctors for that diagnosis which has led to a disproportionate amount of people in this country taking medication for an illness they do not have because parents didn't teach them how to behave.
Of course a lot of parents just want to be friends with their kids these days too, that's part of the problem. There is a fine line between having your kid like you and being a friend that will do anything to make them happy.
Of course occupying their time would mean that you have to occupy more of your time to teach them which is also part of the issue. So many people working a lot of hours, that doesn't leave a lot of room to properly raise your kid. It's a hard line to draw between being poor raising kids responsibly or having some extra to be able to take everyone on a vacation every now and again. I see it with my sister who's taken the being poor approach. She's stressed out and often unhappy. Versus some other friends I have who have taken the other approach who are living stress free lifestyles taking their kids to Disneyland.
Parenting, it ain't easy, I'm glad I'm not a parent at this point but I have a lot of respect for people that are. Assuming they haven't abandoned their responsibility that is.
Naturally it's going to be harder for the small guys, never disputed that. For those of us fortunate enough to run SMS we have all the tools to do it. We have an inventory scanner which can work offline in addition to offline repositories. So yeah, it sucks for the small guy, the big guys couldn't care less. That's why I said that I understood Microsoft's reasoning but would have preferred they worked with the Autopatcher folks to keep it running instead of just shutting it down.
Sounds like Autopatcher was more useful for mobile techs going to places with less than adequate Internet access. Of course such a tech could setup WSUS and just copy all the files to a thumb drive. Most people round here prolly would prefer to just complain about Microsoft. From a liability and quality control standpoint I understand Microsoft's position. Although I would have preferred Microsoft worked with the folks rather than shut them down.
I'm not saying no one has convinced their boss of this. Honestly only an idiot would buy a MacBook and run Windows instead of OS X. The build quality despite what you seem to say is identical. I've had to service both PC and Mac laptops for quite a while. All of our HP laptops were good to go out of the box and have been running solid for a year now. Conversely a few of the Macbooks purchased have had to be sent away. What does this mean? Absolutely nothing because manufacturing isn't where the problems lay.
I'll never understand the mentality of buying a Mac and running Windows on it. If you're going to pay 10 grand for your graphics workstation you run it with software built specifically for it. That is how much our Mac Pro rig is going to cost which is ridiculous but it's what our designers are comfortable with.
Look at Dell's new commercials to see the real issue with them advertising their new product as containing no trialware which makes a lot of sense if you're a business. That extra crap is what was hurting PCs.
Windows despite what you seem to think doesn't suck, honestly I don't believe you really believe it does given how much of the world runs Windows without a problem. Vista, sure lots of issues surrounding that but Windows in general is all over the place and working just fine.
A pointless argument anyways. Apple has the cool effect and that is really the reason people are buying. As much as I personally don't like Apple's offerings their products do look professionally put together like someone actually took some time and thought the thing out unlike the i.Beat Blaxx mp3 player out there. That's the reason you see Apple gaining ground. OS X really sucks for kids as my boss has just discovered. He wanted to run some spyware software to monitor his 13 year old daughter. She has a MacBook and the software really is crap. The Windows version has network offloading and a billion other nifty features that consistently work. OS X really doesn't offer people anymore than Windows does, the software packaged with it Apple has done a nice job with. I've seen some HP in particular media center rigs that did it just as elegantly though.
The power is in the package, Apple has one hell of a package right now so their success makes sense.
In my mind its a regular litigation hold. For instance email within my company normally has no retention policy. You can delete it at will with no worries. When we are involved in a lawsuit then archiving kicks in and nothing gets permanently deleted so I can report on whatever is requested. It makes us look like we have nothing to hide and prevents the other side from being able to present a side of the discussion without us being able to provide our side.
I'm a former Vermonter and I share you sentiment although it sounds like VT is better off. I've had DSL in rural Jericho/Underhill area since 1996. Cable is now also available pretty much everywhere. Imagine my shock when I moved from rural VT to Phoenix and found out I had no broadband options here! I had to do dial-up for a while, then one-way cable, then two-way cable. It was a miserable couple of months. Of course now I'm in AZ and we have 12meg cable which actually goes that fast.
My domain was added back in 2002 when it was hosted by an ISP that is now bankrupt. why should I be concerned about being blacklisted by them? Does anybody use them for filtering?
It's only a matter of time before it is found since people are looking for it. Security through obscurity NEVER works. It may seem like it works for a while but that is a woefully false sense of security.
Yeah, like totally, how the hell did we ever find anybody when cell and sat phones didn't exist? Seriously, security through obscurity is not security at all.
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Sorry but no you don't. You learn Cisco's way of doing everything which is painfully different from everyone else from Nortel, 3com, HP, Brocade, Adtran, and a number of other vendors.
For every solution there is a standards compliant way to do it and there is a Cisco way to do it. To Cisco's credit their products support the standards but one need only look at the removal of CDP from HP ProCurve products to see why the Cisco way isn't always the best way. Subnetting into VLANs and trunking is basically the same from vendor to vendor. The Cisco exams are more concerned about how you setup LACP on a Catalyst 6500 running IOS 12 vs an older Catalyst running IOS 10 with the biggest difference being syntactical. The old way for instance you had to wipe an ACL completely and add it all back when you wanted to make a change. The new way you just remove the ACL entry you don't want. A much saner way. That's just one example. Cisco isn't even consistent among their product lines. Command sets are different with new releases of IOS, sometimes making it more friendly but I would think consistency would be a better approach.
Is it any wonder my Proxim APs have a very similar command set to my ProCurve switches?
So I would say that knowing the commands to setup LACP doesn't necessarily teach you the concept behind why you would want to do that and get into how it affects your STP setup.
I will say that the CCNA is still one of the better certs out there. Certainly light years better than any of the Microsoft or Oracle certs.
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No, actually I meant single user mode, runlevel 3. Come on ... talk about a ridiculous claim. The thing would boot you right into CDE automatically. Except the resolution was too high and refresh rate way off. So you boot into single user mode and you can edit the config. This is not a difficult concept in the slightest. It's second hand for most people that have to do crash recovery on Linux, Solaris isn't all that different in that aspect.
It's just astounding, I tried to get everyone I knew to vote in 04 and 06. So many times I was faced with the I hate politics, it doesn't affect me. Then I start telling them horror stories about the government can now do to them and that it has done it to a lot of innocent people already. Of course a lot of not-so innocent people have been busted with this too. I can't help but wonder how many of them will have to go free because of the gross mishandling of the situation.
You make some fine points but verifying that they are being used as intended isn't enough. There needs to be steep penalties for misuse of the immense amount of power being given.
Of course in my mind the old rules were fine, there was sufficient information to prevent the tragedy much like like the events leading up to Pearl Harbor. The problem was communicating internally to get the right information to the right people at the right time. That doesn't take the PATRIOT Act with its far overreaching changes. Imagine how many billions have been spent because of it and how little it has accomplished to help us. I can't believe that in modern times we still have the same problems with communication. An f'in email could have prevented all of this from happening.
Of course none of this would have been an issue if Congress had been doing it's job initially. There's the real broken link. The wiretapping programs are simply absurd. There is no way to reasonably interpret the constitution to allow such things. The constitution is a document which specifically states what the government can do to us. There is simply no language in there that would allow this invasion of privacy. Combine that with all the search and seizure changes involved in the war on drugs and you've got yourself a pattern. I wish it was as simple as republican versus democrat but there is a long history of this abuse and more laws aren't going to fix it. Someone needs to enforce the laws we already have. We need to get rid of the PATRIOT Act, repeal the war powers act, and get back to some semblance of sanity.
How in the world in this day and age can a president blatantly violate the constitution and remain completely unchallenged? It's simply astounding.
Actually yes it is a SQL 2005 thing although there was a way to do it SQL 2000 called Data cubes from my understanding. You end up having multiple data files just like you would in an Oracle situation. It's easier to explain in Oracle terms as you'd just create a tablespace for column based tables and a tablespace for row-based tables. Then away you go, both storing files as you see fit.
I guess in SQL 2005 terms you'd be creating another database on the same server and just use server linking to get your data from one place to another. Either through an ISIS package or a SQL Job.
I agree completely. Reducing patent lengths to say three years which I believe was where it was originally would go a long way towards ending the problem. I think of course the same should happen for copyrights but I can see copyrights having a slightly longer possibly 7 year term although that seems too long for me.
I think everyone can agree that in it's current form the system has been polluted and no longer serves its intended purpose.
No, it was a brand new Sun box, the school didn't want to pay for the extras since it was already absurdly priced. Also, unless you're doing a 100k+ deal with them they barely give you the time of day if you are lucky.
I wasn't saying that was necessarily true of all Sun support but I've heard a lot of problem run into road blocks with them along similar grounds. You have to have specific combinations of products despite using standardized interfaces so any keyboard will work since it's USB but for some reason since I don't have the magic key on the keyboard it won't let you into single-user mode so you can edit the config and change the initial resolution.
Perhaps I should give Sun another try, but given how responsive NetApp is and that EMC wants to be a sponsor I doubt I'll have need for their products anytime soon.
You may be right, I've been seeing conflicting reports on the order in which this happened. Honestly though NetApp has been thrashing the whole industry over the last few years, I don't see what they would have to gain by this. Between Oracle and GoDaddy alone there is an enormous amount of NetApp storage out there. NetApp also seems more forthcoming with their side of the story indicating at first glance at least that they have nothing to hide.
Naturally appearances can be deceiving though. I know my experiences with NetApp have been a lot more positive than my experiences with Sun so perhaps my own bias is showing there.
Except that you are clearly ignorant about NetApp snapshots. They are very different from snapshots from other providers. I recently evaluated SANs from HP, EMC, and NetApp. NetApp was the most original and offered a lot of unique features including their snapshot technology. It's very non-obvious their implementation of it.
Here's a link to educate(PDF)
And another Bunch of white papers explaining why Oracle went with NetApp storage. There is a similar list for GoDaddy
NetApp is not SCO, they are only acting because Sun threatened them. They are most innovative big company I've seen in recent years. Their WAFL implementation is pretty damned impressive especially when combined with Flexclone and their other Snapshot products.
That's interesting because our 2040 filers cost about that and came with 30TB of online capacity. Did you price the whole deal with SAS drives or something? I split it up and have some SAS drives for high speed front-end storage and the rest are 750gig SATA for archiving.
As opposed to the situation now? He who has the money makes the rules, that's the system we currently use. Those with the most money have the most patents and can sue anyone into oblivion. Surely there has to be some middle ground here.
We recently began a deployment of a couple of NetApp filers, the 2040 and 3040 ranges. They are mighty great to work with from my experience so far. The software is very easy to use and understand and NetApp support has been stellar thus far. They move a lost faster than EMC from the looks although EMC's storage offerings are mighty impressive as well.
Storage is a rough business but the SAN I'm deploying this year paves the way for virtualized servers next year which I'm excited about. With VMWare's ACE I'm not even sure Tripwire is needed anymore.
Also it seems as though NetApp was rather nice about this whole patent thing from the get go. It wasn't until Sun threatened them that they acted and again acted fairly preferring a cross licensing deal rather than any cash payout in either direction.
Sun support in my experience has been a pain in the ass. I remember trying to modify the startup resolution on a box since I didn't have a Sun monitor or keyboard. They would not help me over the phone since it was a none Sun keyboard even though they had no problem with a non-Sun monitor. I did a key mash to figure out the stop key on boot to get me in. That was the last time I played with anything from Sun. That was about 4 years ago. Mileage may vary but I've not heard anything positive more recently. I am a fan of ZFS though, I wish it weren't mired in this crap but Sun started the fight and attacked a gorilla. The reaction had to be expected.
The beautiful part about the enterprise deployments is the ability to just plug in to the wired network. This will then automatically grab the policies and certificates needed to connect to the wifi network assuming the workstation/user combo are authorized. This is exceedingly easy to setup for small companies and can be done with only a single server and a managed switch. 802.1x authentication is transparent to the user if it is done right. Microsoft makes it mighty easy to do. FreeRADIUS and OpenLDAP on the Linux side are pretty simple as far as Linux alternatives go. They are both well documented.
Of course me being the geek I am I have the same setup at my house in addition to four sites of the company I work for. If someone manages to compromise that level of security they can have free Internet, my hat is off to them.
Find yourself another doctor then. I'm sure Rush Limbaugh could refer you. People do it all the time. On second thought, you've got a good doctor, might want to keep them around.
Could you update Wiki then cause hyperfocus is not a symptom of ADHD?. There are a number of other conditions which only allow a person to focus on one thing at a time. It is fairly common in old age but it can happen at anytime. In short, if you were diagnosed with ADHD and you can play a game for a week then you were misdiagnosed. Any medication would only make it worse. You're describing what happens when a normal person takes Ritalin or Adorale (SP). Those in college often take it for that very reason.
Sounds good, my sister had three kids though. I think you're right though, my sister chose to stay home with the kids while my bro-in-law went and worked as much as he could to get ahead. The kids are still very young though and that is a very stressful time for parents. They don't know right or wrong at the age of 1 or 2 and you have to run after them constantly. Now they one niece is 7 and one niece is 3 things are getting better for them.
You're right that parents should do a cost analysis though, most situations I come across it's been less expensive just to have one of the parents stay home.
There is also a far cry from staying couped up with three kids all day everyday. My sister finds things for them to do that are inexpensive like apple picking and going to the park, various activities out in the town. They aren't that bad off but it's definitely stressful for them sometimes.
It's a shame you got modded as flamebait there but it is worth mentioning that those with actual ADD cannot play games for hours. The kids you are describing do not have it. A lot of parents pressure doctors for that diagnosis which has led to a disproportionate amount of people in this country taking medication for an illness they do not have because parents didn't teach them how to behave.
Of course a lot of parents just want to be friends with their kids these days too, that's part of the problem. There is a fine line between having your kid like you and being a friend that will do anything to make them happy.
Of course occupying their time would mean that you have to occupy more of your time to teach them which is also part of the issue. So many people working a lot of hours, that doesn't leave a lot of room to properly raise your kid. It's a hard line to draw between being poor raising kids responsibly or having some extra to be able to take everyone on a vacation every now and again. I see it with my sister who's taken the being poor approach. She's stressed out and often unhappy. Versus some other friends I have who have taken the other approach who are living stress free lifestyles taking their kids to Disneyland.
Parenting, it ain't easy, I'm glad I'm not a parent at this point but I have a lot of respect for people that are. Assuming they haven't abandoned their responsibility that is.
Naturally it's going to be harder for the small guys, never disputed that. For those of us fortunate enough to run SMS we have all the tools to do it. We have an inventory scanner which can work offline in addition to offline repositories. So yeah, it sucks for the small guy, the big guys couldn't care less. That's why I said that I understood Microsoft's reasoning but would have preferred they worked with the Autopatcher folks to keep it running instead of just shutting it down.
Sounds like Autopatcher was more useful for mobile techs going to places with less than adequate Internet access. Of course such a tech could setup WSUS and just copy all the files to a thumb drive. Most people round here prolly would prefer to just complain about Microsoft. From a liability and quality control standpoint I understand Microsoft's position. Although I would have preferred Microsoft worked with the folks rather than shut them down.
I'm not saying no one has convinced their boss of this. Honestly only an idiot would buy a MacBook and run Windows instead of OS X. The build quality despite what you seem to say is identical. I've had to service both PC and Mac laptops for quite a while. All of our HP laptops were good to go out of the box and have been running solid for a year now. Conversely a few of the Macbooks purchased have had to be sent away. What does this mean? Absolutely nothing because manufacturing isn't where the problems lay. I'll never understand the mentality of buying a Mac and running Windows on it. If you're going to pay 10 grand for your graphics workstation you run it with software built specifically for it. That is how much our Mac Pro rig is going to cost which is ridiculous but it's what our designers are comfortable with.
Look at Dell's new commercials to see the real issue with them advertising their new product as containing no trialware which makes a lot of sense if you're a business. That extra crap is what was hurting PCs.
Windows despite what you seem to think doesn't suck, honestly I don't believe you really believe it does given how much of the world runs Windows without a problem. Vista, sure lots of issues surrounding that but Windows in general is all over the place and working just fine.
A pointless argument anyways. Apple has the cool effect and that is really the reason people are buying. As much as I personally don't like Apple's offerings their products do look professionally put together like someone actually took some time and thought the thing out unlike the i.Beat Blaxx mp3 player out there. That's the reason you see Apple gaining ground. OS X really sucks for kids as my boss has just discovered. He wanted to run some spyware software to monitor his 13 year old daughter. She has a MacBook and the software really is crap. The Windows version has network offloading and a billion other nifty features that consistently work. OS X really doesn't offer people anymore than Windows does, the software packaged with it Apple has done a nice job with. I've seen some HP in particular media center rigs that did it just as elegantly though.
The power is in the package, Apple has one hell of a package right now so their success makes sense.
In my mind its a regular litigation hold. For instance email within my company normally has no retention policy. You can delete it at will with no worries. When we are involved in a lawsuit then archiving kicks in and nothing gets permanently deleted so I can report on whatever is requested. It makes us look like we have nothing to hide and prevents the other side from being able to present a side of the discussion without us being able to provide our side.
I'm a former Vermonter and I share you sentiment although it sounds like VT is better off. I've had DSL in rural Jericho/Underhill area since 1996. Cable is now also available pretty much everywhere. Imagine my shock when I moved from rural VT to Phoenix and found out I had no broadband options here! I had to do dial-up for a while, then one-way cable, then two-way cable. It was a miserable couple of months. Of course now I'm in AZ and we have 12meg cable which actually goes that fast.
My domain was added back in 2002 when it was hosted by an ISP that is now bankrupt. why should I be concerned about being blacklisted by them? Does anybody use them for filtering?
It's only a matter of time before it is found since people are looking for it. Security through obscurity NEVER works. It may seem like it works for a while but that is a woefully false sense of security.
Yeah, like totally, how the hell did we ever find anybody when cell and sat phones didn't exist? Seriously, security through obscurity is not security at all.
Sorry but no you don't. You learn Cisco's way of doing everything which is painfully different from everyone else from Nortel, 3com, HP, Brocade, Adtran, and a number of other vendors.
For every solution there is a standards compliant way to do it and there is a Cisco way to do it. To Cisco's credit their products support the standards but one need only look at the removal of CDP from HP ProCurve products to see why the Cisco way isn't always the best way. Subnetting into VLANs and trunking is basically the same from vendor to vendor. The Cisco exams are more concerned about how you setup LACP on a Catalyst 6500 running IOS 12 vs an older Catalyst running IOS 10 with the biggest difference being syntactical. The old way for instance you had to wipe an ACL completely and add it all back when you wanted to make a change. The new way you just remove the ACL entry you don't want. A much saner way. That's just one example. Cisco isn't even consistent among their product lines. Command sets are different with new releases of IOS, sometimes making it more friendly but I would think consistency would be a better approach.
Is it any wonder my Proxim APs have a very similar command set to my ProCurve switches?
So I would say that knowing the commands to setup LACP doesn't necessarily teach you the concept behind why you would want to do that and get into how it affects your STP setup.
I will say that the CCNA is still one of the better certs out there. Certainly light years better than any of the Microsoft or Oracle certs.