This is to overload DPI gateways scanning documents for viruses, attacks or Data Loss Prevention (confidential documents being sent out, 80% of the time by mistake according to Check Point). They indeed unzip the archives since they need the uncompressed version of files to match them against known signatures, or even execute them in virtual environments, in some cases. Two easy tricks: put a password on the archive (they won't take the time to try and crack it, but might put it aside), or "overzip" it. These devices typically have a threshold of nesting after which they give up (but they could also put the file aside and send a notification to the administrators). We're not talking crazy amount of nesting, either, it's in the ~30 range.
Their approach is exactly the same as "Fiber to the Building." In FttB, you get a fiber, well, to the building and plug that into a router/DSLAM. Then you patch in the lines of that building into the DSLAM. The last 100m is usually VDSL, which is about 150 Mbps symmetrical. ALU simply updated that to be 1 Gbps.
You can't compare DSL to Wifi because wired connections are typically more reliable than wireless (not even discussing security concerns here) and less prone to noise and generate less radio waves (duh).
You do seem to be enlightened on the subject, even if quoting a handful of authors voicing their opinion doesn't prove much. Hypothetically - if there's a latent anti-Americanism in Europe - it's not conscious and maybe nurtured by the politicians. Clearly, the average Joe over here is not half as "anti-American" as, say, George Carlin. I've noticed that people in the US tend to consider that if you say anything remotely negative about their country, they brand you 'anti-American' ; so allow me to take with a grain of salt what you witnessed in Europe. Subjectivity is a bitch (for me too).
Don't flatter yourself into thinking that we would bother to impress you.
See, some people find that arrogant. It could be read as "we're so many miles ahead of you, your opinion doesn't really matter." So when you say Europe is arrogant, I find the irony quite funny.
I also wanted to mention that I'm very proud to meet you, Ron Swanson!
I liked the concept of Songbird, even though it was too 'heavy' a program, what with all the Mozilla stuff in the background. I really was looking for a replacement to Winamp, but Songbird didn't work. The problem was that it was painfully slow to parse the media library from my SMB share (Winamp was about 10 times faster), and that was just a show-stopper for me (I'm a music enthusiast, and play a little bit myself, so I have a rather huge library). So I went back to Winamp, and would check Songbird twice a year or so to check their progress.
Then about a year ago I found out about Foobar2000 http://www.foobar2000.org/ and I never fired Winamp up ever again (as soon as I figured how to setup foobar). It's got all the geeky plugins ('components') I need, such as Kernel Streaming, AudioScrobbler and live Lyrics. The only downside is that it runs only under Windows.
Who are you kidding? European obsession with, arrogance towards, and dislike of, the US has been around, with brief interruptions, since the US was founded. Don't expect American voters to suddenly start caring after two centuries of European intellectuals getting their panties in a knot.
Where does this come from? I'm a French and I don't hear around me, everyday, non-stop American bashing. Quite the contrary: people like the Hollywood movies, US pop stars or American brands. France is the second largest fast-food consumer market after the US (per person, of course, since we are only 60-odd million people). You get the usual "Americans are fat" remark, which I think it's just a simple fact.
However as soon as I hop onto a forum, I will systematically end up reading some joke or other about "France surrenders, lol!" or being called "frogs" and whatnot. Not to mention the "we saved them in WW2!" comments, completely ignoring the reasons of that happening, or that without France there wouldn't be a US of A to begin with. But we don't make jokes about that over here. Maybe 50 years following Independance Day the French would do it, I don't know (but I think they were too busy chopping heads off).
Anyway, I travel a lot in Europe and Middle-East (Israel, really) as a network engineering consultant, and the places where I've been that were surprisingly anti-American was the UK and Quebec. These are the only places where people were actually anti-American for more than just jesting (not all of them, but many, and so much more than in the rest of Europe).
So, yeah, I don't think Europe is 'arrogant' towards the US. If anything we don't like you being so arrogant yourself (what with "Land of the Free" and other pre-made propaganda, implying the rest of the West is so bad to live in).
I work for a company that sells network test & measurement equipment. We have the whole range, from 1 GbE to 100 GbE to Fibre Channel to RF, etc.. And I don't think most people here realize what they say.
10GbE has been in major use at most ISPs for years now - there's almost no 1 GbE left. End users just don't see it because this connectivity is mostly in core networks and data centers. With the explosion of data traffic due to smart phones, wider adoption of 3G+ technologies and permanent connectivity, Mobile Backhaul networks also moved to 10GbE years ago (that's your local antenna fibers going to the core network).
The reason is not only the higher throughput per port, but what comes from that: you can get more throughput per U (the standard unit for racks) than with 1 GbE ; so, more throughput per rack. Given the price of a data center, you sure as hell want to make the best possible use of the space. Also, It's better to have 1x 10GbE than 10x1GbE in a trunk, obviously, because a simpler configuration is always more desirable as long as it fits the technical requirement. It also takes less energy to power 1x 10 GbE port than 10x1GbE ports.
What is true, however, is that 10 GbE is just recently making it into *Enterprise*, which I reckon is where most of the posters here work at so they might have a different perspective for 10GbE adoption. Of course, very large enterprises like banks and Facebook-like have had 10GbE in their data centers for ages - just not so much in their local agencies or offices. As for ISPs, they are currently starting the testing and deployment of 40/100GbE.
The big exception are Universities and Research Centers, as some of them require the highest possible throughput. We sold a 100GbE test equipment to the CERN, for instance, because they have so much datamining to do from the LHC that they have to offload some of the analysis to a university in Lyon, France, and another one in Amsterdam, Netherlands (that's 1600 Km of 100 GbE and that's awesome). To my knowledge it's the only non-ISP entity in Europe that has that kind of requirements.
I don't see how this solves anything. If the users can have access to VPN/encryption to communicate, the government can now also buy network devices with advanced features such as Deep Packet Inspection or Lawful Interception or Man in the Middle - anything Next Generation Firewall can do, or dedicated devices can do better. Since they are the government they can easily push their own certificates so you wouldn't even know they do MitM unless you look very closely (not many people do).
All of this is rather easily doable, the only cost is performance and scalability, and you only need to throw more money at this to solve these issues.
For me anyway, it's much faster to move my hand away from the mouse than to click 3 menus deep. I can't see how it'd be longer for anyone unless they are disabled. Have we come to a society where lifting your damn hand is too much effort?
You are correct. But honestly for me it was the first thing I tried because I assumed they wouldn't remove that feature just because it doesn't show a big text field. I would have been mad if they did, and they didn't. If people are too stupid to make that experience that took me 2 seconds, then, yeah, Microsoft fucked up. And maybe they did, you have to account for the laziness and intellect for your user base.
No. It's just faster to some people to type than to move a mouse on the screen. I wish I could use the same shortcuts on Ubuntu desktop for instance. I don't want to have to remember under which sub-sub-sub-menu some guy decided it made sense to file a shortcut, I'd rather just remember the name of the shortcut and type away.
I just find it much faster to type "Control Panel" than to move the mouse and click three or for times. This applies to both W7 and W8. To each their own I guess.
Like in the past. Hit the "Windows" key, type "Control Panel", and it'll show up. I never had a problem with Windows 8 because in Windows 7 I always hit "Windows key" and started typing whatever I was looking for. Did you really have to Google that?
Most engineers don't travel, sales people do. I'm a pre-sales engineer, and I have to travel around all of EMEA. I expense plane tickets, meals, hotels, gasoline and tolls, etc. I probably don't cost as much in expenses than in salary, but I would make an educated guess of 30-50%. What is true, however, is that I'm probably better paid than a developer of similar competency. About 50% of our developers are outsourced to China so there's that..
I own a Samsung Series 5 Ultrabook. I don't want to bother looking up (or flipping the device back as I type this) the exact model but it basically has got an i5@1.7Ghz, 6 GB of RAM and Windows 8 (I like it, suck it up).
I can confirm that the device boots up disturbingly fast - either from a cold boot or from Sleep. I didn't time it but it feels like ~15-25 seconds. That gets me to the Welcome screen of Windows, and I can log in instantly. But if I try to start Visual Studio right after booting, I can definitively tell - from the LED - that the 5,400 drive is a problem. Right after booting, as Windows is, I assume, starting the various services and stuff, I can really feel the pain. I don't feel that on my main PC, which has got less RAM (4 GB) but a full-fledged SSD where the OS resides.
I paid 500 euros for that Ultrabook (Amazon repackaged). And for that price, I'm happy as a clam with that PC. If I allow something like 30 or 45 seconds for the session to actually completely open, the thing is blazing fast. A 7,200 RPM drive would drain the battery quicker (I have something like 6 hours of autonomy if I'm just coding - compiling from time o time - or just web surfing). I'd rather have a 256 GB SSD, but the price of those rose 30% in the last year so that might have put my PC around the 800/900 euros price point which, to me is not worth it.
This is not an advertisement or anything, just a direct feedback from a rather happy customer understanding the pros and cons of the technologies vs the price.
Yes you are correct, that can be annoying and it used to frustrate me. But then I realize, 90% of the time I look for a program, not a setting, so for the 10 remaining percent, I can make the effort of clicking. But you are correct, that's a regression from W7 and they should make it a setting.
The worst part for me is that most people complain about Metro without realizing it works exactly like the Windows 7 start menu - shortcuts are identical. It only changes a little bit if you're an elderly who click instead of using the keyboard (which is much faster, even in W7).
If you are comparing to Amazon, you should also take into account that a CD is of superior quality. Amazon sells in 256 Kbps last time I checked, but even if they started selling 320 Kbps V0 CBR the quality would be below that of a CD (which is lossless quality). Only if they started selling in a lossless format (AAC, FLAC) it would be comparing apples to apples. I'd take a CD over a MP3 any time of the day, even for a few more bucks.
CloudFlare can protect you for free. You might not have as much control but they'll protect you from bots and such for free. Also, MyLittleSite.com probably isn't big enough to piss off anyone who can crank 300 Gbps of DDoS (even if they required only 1/100th of that since they exploited open DNS resolvers).
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This is to overload DPI gateways scanning documents for viruses, attacks or Data Loss Prevention (confidential documents being sent out, 80% of the time by mistake according to Check Point). They indeed unzip the archives since they need the uncompressed version of files to match them against known signatures, or even execute them in virtual environments, in some cases. Two easy tricks: put a password on the archive (they won't take the time to try and crack it, but might put it aside), or "overzip" it. These devices typically have a threshold of nesting after which they give up (but they could also put the file aside and send a notification to the administrators). We're not talking crazy amount of nesting, either, it's in the ~30 range.
Their approach is exactly the same as "Fiber to the Building." In FttB, you get a fiber, well, to the building and plug that into a router/DSLAM. Then you patch in the lines of that building into the DSLAM. The last 100m is usually VDSL, which is about 150 Mbps symmetrical. ALU simply updated that to be 1 Gbps.
You can't compare DSL to Wifi because wired connections are typically more reliable than wireless (not even discussing security concerns here) and less prone to noise and generate less radio waves (duh).
See, some people find that arrogant. It could be read as "we're so many miles ahead of you, your opinion doesn't really matter." So when you say Europe is arrogant, I find the irony quite funny.
I also wanted to mention that I'm very proud to meet you, Ron Swanson!
I liked the concept of Songbird, even though it was too 'heavy' a program, what with all the Mozilla stuff in the background. I really was looking for a replacement to Winamp, but Songbird didn't work. The problem was that it was painfully slow to parse the media library from my SMB share (Winamp was about 10 times faster), and that was just a show-stopper for me (I'm a music enthusiast, and play a little bit myself, so I have a rather huge library). So I went back to Winamp, and would check Songbird twice a year or so to check their progress.
Then about a year ago I found out about Foobar2000 http://www.foobar2000.org/ and I never fired Winamp up ever again (as soon as I figured how to setup foobar). It's got all the geeky plugins ('components') I need, such as Kernel Streaming, AudioScrobbler and live Lyrics. The only downside is that it runs only under Windows.
Where does this come from? I'm a French and I don't hear around me, everyday, non-stop American bashing. Quite the contrary: people like the Hollywood movies, US pop stars or American brands. France is the second largest fast-food consumer market after the US (per person, of course, since we are only 60-odd million people). You get the usual "Americans are fat" remark, which I think it's just a simple fact.
However as soon as I hop onto a forum, I will systematically end up reading some joke or other about "France surrenders, lol!" or being called "frogs" and whatnot. Not to mention the "we saved them in WW2!" comments, completely ignoring the reasons of that happening, or that without France there wouldn't be a US of A to begin with. But we don't make jokes about that over here. Maybe 50 years following Independance Day the French would do it, I don't know (but I think they were too busy chopping heads off).
Anyway, I travel a lot in Europe and Middle-East (Israel, really) as a network engineering consultant, and the places where I've been that were surprisingly anti-American was the UK and Quebec. These are the only places where people were actually anti-American for more than just jesting (not all of them, but many, and so much more than in the rest of Europe).
So, yeah, I don't think Europe is 'arrogant' towards the US. If anything we don't like you being so arrogant yourself (what with "Land of the Free" and other pre-made propaganda, implying the rest of the West is so bad to live in).
10GbE has been in major use at most ISPs for years now - there's almost no 1 GbE left. End users just don't see it because this connectivity is mostly in core networks and data centers. With the explosion of data traffic due to smart phones, wider adoption of 3G+ technologies and permanent connectivity, Mobile Backhaul networks also moved to 10GbE years ago (that's your local antenna fibers going to the core network).
The reason is not only the higher throughput per port, but what comes from that: you can get more throughput per U (the standard unit for racks) than with 1 GbE ; so, more throughput per rack. Given the price of a data center, you sure as hell want to make the best possible use of the space. Also, It's better to have 1x 10GbE than 10x1GbE in a trunk, obviously, because a simpler configuration is always more desirable as long as it fits the technical requirement. It also takes less energy to power 1x 10 GbE port than 10x1GbE ports.
What is true, however, is that 10 GbE is just recently making it into *Enterprise*, which I reckon is where most of the posters here work at so they might have a different perspective for 10GbE adoption. Of course, very large enterprises like banks and Facebook-like have had 10GbE in their data centers for ages - just not so much in their local agencies or offices. As for ISPs, they are currently starting the testing and deployment of 40/100GbE.
The big exception are Universities and Research Centers, as some of them require the highest possible throughput. We sold a 100GbE test equipment to the CERN, for instance, because they have so much datamining to do from the LHC that they have to offload some of the analysis to a university in Lyon, France, and another one in Amsterdam, Netherlands (that's 1600 Km of 100 GbE and that's awesome). To my knowledge it's the only non-ISP entity in Europe that has that kind of requirements.
I don't see how this solves anything. If the users can have access to VPN/encryption to communicate, the government can now also buy network devices with advanced features such as Deep Packet Inspection or Lawful Interception or Man in the Middle - anything Next Generation Firewall can do, or dedicated devices can do better. Since they are the government they can easily push their own certificates so you wouldn't even know they do MitM unless you look very closely (not many people do).
All of this is rather easily doable, the only cost is performance and scalability, and you only need to throw more money at this to solve these issues.
Alternatively you can just press the "Power" button of your PC, or use CTRL + ALT + DEL to logout.
For me anyway, it's much faster to move my hand away from the mouse than to click 3 menus deep. I can't see how it'd be longer for anyone unless they are disabled. Have we come to a society where lifting your damn hand is too much effort?
You are correct. But honestly for me it was the first thing I tried because I assumed they wouldn't remove that feature just because it doesn't show a big text field. I would have been mad if they did, and they didn't. If people are too stupid to make that experience that took me 2 seconds, then, yeah, Microsoft fucked up. And maybe they did, you have to account for the laziness and intellect for your user base.
No. It's just faster to some people to type than to move a mouse on the screen. I wish I could use the same shortcuts on Ubuntu desktop for instance. I don't want to have to remember under which sub-sub-sub-menu some guy decided it made sense to file a shortcut, I'd rather just remember the name of the shortcut and type away.
I just find it much faster to type "Control Panel" than to move the mouse and click three or for times. This applies to both W7 and W8. To each their own I guess.
Like in the past. Hit the "Windows" key, type "Control Panel", and it'll show up. I never had a problem with Windows 8 because in Windows 7 I always hit "Windows key" and started typing whatever I was looking for. Did you really have to Google that?
Most engineers don't travel, sales people do. I'm a pre-sales engineer, and I have to travel around all of EMEA. I expense plane tickets, meals, hotels, gasoline and tolls, etc. I probably don't cost as much in expenses than in salary, but I would make an educated guess of 30-50%. What is true, however, is that I'm probably better paid than a developer of similar competency. About 50% of our developers are outsourced to China so there's that..
The problem is not the food production, it's how we waste it. The US imports 4 times more food than it physically can consume (even factoring in the obesity and things like this). I got this from a TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/tristram_stuart_the_global_food_waste_scandal.html
If guns don't kill people, I don't see how Tor hacks. Also, last week somebody almost killed my wife with his car, so clearly we should ban all cars.
If he didn't want to get publicly humiliated maybe he shouldn't have posted publicly. He's stupid, and twice so.
Oh is it? http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/82769/
You know you thought about this. http://xkcd.com/651/
I own a Samsung Series 5 Ultrabook. I don't want to bother looking up (or flipping the device back as I type this) the exact model but it basically has got an i5@1.7Ghz, 6 GB of RAM and Windows 8 (I like it, suck it up).
I can confirm that the device boots up disturbingly fast - either from a cold boot or from Sleep. I didn't time it but it feels like ~15-25 seconds. That gets me to the Welcome screen of Windows, and I can log in instantly. But if I try to start Visual Studio right after booting, I can definitively tell - from the LED - that the 5,400 drive is a problem. Right after booting, as Windows is, I assume, starting the various services and stuff, I can really feel the pain. I don't feel that on my main PC, which has got less RAM (4 GB) but a full-fledged SSD where the OS resides.
I paid 500 euros for that Ultrabook (Amazon repackaged). And for that price, I'm happy as a clam with that PC. If I allow something like 30 or 45 seconds for the session to actually completely open, the thing is blazing fast. A 7,200 RPM drive would drain the battery quicker (I have something like 6 hours of autonomy if I'm just coding - compiling from time o time - or just web surfing). I'd rather have a 256 GB SSD, but the price of those rose 30% in the last year so that might have put my PC around the 800/900 euros price point which, to me is not worth it.
This is not an advertisement or anything, just a direct feedback from a rather happy customer understanding the pros and cons of the technologies vs the price.
Alternatively you can MAJ+Click and that'll open in a new window.
Yes you are correct, that can be annoying and it used to frustrate me. But then I realize, 90% of the time I look for a program, not a setting, so for the 10 remaining percent, I can make the effort of clicking. But you are correct, that's a regression from W7 and they should make it a setting.
The worst part for me is that most people complain about Metro without realizing it works exactly like the Windows 7 start menu - shortcuts are identical. It only changes a little bit if you're an elderly who click instead of using the keyboard (which is much faster, even in W7).
If you are comparing to Amazon, you should also take into account that a CD is of superior quality. Amazon sells in 256 Kbps last time I checked, but even if they started selling 320 Kbps V0 CBR the quality would be below that of a CD (which is lossless quality). Only if they started selling in a lossless format (AAC, FLAC) it would be comparing apples to apples. I'd take a CD over a MP3 any time of the day, even for a few more bucks.
CloudFlare can protect you for free. You might not have as much control but they'll protect you from bots and such for free. Also, MyLittleSite.com probably isn't big enough to piss off anyone who can crank 300 Gbps of DDoS (even if they required only 1/100th of that since they exploited open DNS resolvers).