Every slashdot thread about Apple is going to be full of the same dolts who can't see the bigger picture. Can people buy something because they love it? Does it perform beautifully? Does it do what I want it to do, better, faster, longer? Yes. Then I buy it, because I have the money to spend on it, because I'm a reasonable person who doesn't want all the lame features and crappy 2nd rate applications that android devices have. Let's be fair here, it doesn't matter what the sweaty neck beards here on slashdot say, because they said the same shit about every Apple release since the first iPod, they just don't get it. They also don't get social interactions, females, really good music, and the simple, pleasurable things in life, because they are sweaty neckbeards and will always target why something isn't good enough instead of why Apple products sell like gangbusters (her knees are too boney): People buy Apple iPhones (and other gear) because they WORK GREAT.
If your employer would do its due diligence and correctly vet potential employees, having a cert wouldn't be a "red flag", and instead would be a valuable addition. I'm not saying every MCSE (is this still a thing?) aught to automatically be considered an expert genius, but rather it is unfair to penalize those who have the experience, the knowledge, and put themselves through the certification exam to help tie it all together.
I've worked in very large enterprise IT for over 10 years, saying X qualification (certs, diploma) isn't necessary might be true for some people, but to say it as a reg flag just sounds ignorant and I would question your management and hiring practices. To put it simply, knowledge != bad_thing
This is almost certainly a result of a network change plus some really bad luck. Big player BGP peering connections are under intense scrutiny right now because of a few mistakes made at company A were introducing blackhole routes into company B (c,d,e,f's) routers.
Networking is the most often overlooked, often shit on, everyday service that everyone ab(uses) and gets pissed when it doesn't work properly. Like toilets.
I worked for a very large company and analysed data from network packet capture devices that would sift through data and find interesting items. It was quite a head job after awhile. So many people doing dumb things at work and getting caught. Reasonable seeming people looking at fucked up porn (men and women coworkers), people hooking up with random strangers in public restrooms (facilitating this online on their work computers, it happens alot), people having groupsex and viewing the photos at work (via web email), total perverts preying on teenagers (stockholm syndrome in full effect), really anything wrenched or nasty you hear about in the news is like the tip of the iceberg when given a large enough sample size of the general able populous. It may have tweaked my view of people in retrospect, basically it was a really long course in human psychology. I wouldn't ever do that shit again, or anything close to it, but I have respect for people who do.
I live in an expensive area of the country, partially just to avoid the heat. I spent 20 years in Phoenix and don't mind paying a few hundred extra per month to live here. I don't think it's hit 80 degrees yet today.
Apparently it's raining in Phoenix and potentially ruining what few outdoor plans were made. In the summer (6 months of the year) it's either 110+ degrees or it decides to rain, thunderstorm and a dust cloud rolls in. I don't miss that place right now.
The fact that one company owns the license to this technology and makes no guarantees to _not_ increase licensing costs means that once h.264 support is the be-all end-all solution to web video, this one company has a monopoly on the sole video technology that drives the web. Most people running windows/mac have probably indirectly paid for licensing fees for h.264 multiple times. Nice racket they've got there and nobody is complaining, yet.
Here's a pretty good article: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/a-closer-look-at-the-costs-and-fine-print-of-h264-licenses/2884
from the article:
To use and distribute H.264, browser and OS vendors, hardware manufacturers, and publishers who charge for content must pay significant royalties—with no guarantee the fees won’t increase in the future. To companies like Google, the license fees may not be material, but to the next great video startup and those in emerging markets these fees stifle innovation. []
1. Steve announces a huge restructure, openly admits how far Apple has fell, emphasizes Apples strengths and announces an investment by Microsoft into Apple (150Mill. then, wow, I wonder if they are still holding that stock).
Microsoft agrees to produce IE and Office for the Mac. These are huge. I would not use Mac OS X today (for work) if I had to use some half baked 3rd party software that doesn't integrate with exchange properly. Will Microsoft finally say Apple has won (as Steve foreshadows in the speech) and will they start saying things like, well, you want to continue to use Office and Exchange? You'll need Windows 8 for that. Sorry, we don't "do" Apple software anymore.
There can be a naming standard that is applied to all devices, network, servers, storage, so on, that help simplify how an IT organization works. This has to be driven by management.
Naming things by some arbitrary set of characters from your favorite story does not scale well, to say the least.
Lets create a standard that scales like a mofo:
ie, SJN1FIDBSW0001
The goal would be to have each device identified by a location (SJN), location code (1), businessorg (FI), zone (DB) device type (SW),,logical identifer (0), physical device # (001)
How about a web server in NYC datacenter 4 behind a load balancer, but in the DMZ, for the finance organization. The logical "placement" identifier really comes in handy to quickly tell where the hell something is located, inside outside, behind lb, not behind lb, in dmz, extranet bullshit, etc.
NYC4FIWEBSRV1001
I believe it will be too costly to rezone and rebuild everything to suit new realities that happen nearly over night. It's taken decades to build up the massive sprawl of what we have now, yet we could be looking at oil shortages that occur in days. Property values in the exurbs will plummet. Property values in any city without reasonable transportation alternatives will plummet. What cities or areas in the US will be the best bet for long term sustainability. Americans have something like 250 million cars that rely on oil for energy, if we cant fuel them cheaply, life is going to suck for everyone for years. I know we can pull oil out of the tar sands and wherever else, but it takes years to get any oil and it's simply never going to match what we can pull out now.
Living in the suburban hell created during the "greatest generation" when shit hits the fan is going to be no fun. I use sites like walkscore.com to see in my city where the most efficiency can be gained simply by buying a house with significant daily resources in a walk-able distance. What's clear is that the vast majority of my city will be completely ef'd if gas prices double or tripple (real value) and all costs go up substantially. Peak Oil is going to send American cities in the suburbs into a tailspin because all of our cities were built under the pretext of cheap endless oil. I can really only guess what America cities might still function half way, but only guessing any cities that are extremely efficient and have a mass transit culture(NYC/Seattle).
I'm just not seeing any solution to peak oil, I know there are alternatives, but the way our system works in America is that we try every wrong solution first before we even look at the right one. We're going to hit a brick wall and suddenly be out of cheap oil before we seriously look at CNG, E85 (cellulostic, not the corn farce), Coal Oil etc. Even these are fininte resources in themselves (and polluting), but the real issue here is that our society cannot function without cheap private transportation and that system is fueled by one source of energy
It's too late to build smaller cities, more private bike paths, high rise towers. It's over. We have no money, we don't make anything, we spent our wad like a tailor park trash after winning the lotto. We're done. Our cities will not function without private transpiration.
So the question becomes, where on earth is a reasonable place to make a future given the likelihood of sudden oil shortages and price volatility brought on by lack of supply or conflict.
Well, other than know your shit and stop whining, I don't know. You haven't said what your title will be or what you will be doing. Maybe by learning operations as much as you can and about how things work today rather than try to design new pie in the sky systems. Everything needs to be gradual. Also, learn how to document for gods sakes. Try to keep things simple, yet effective. Re-use proven concepts. Managing projects is always a trade off a effectiveness and efficiency, many people forget when they design a new system how inefficient it will be for the rest of the company or systems to do their jobs with the new system. Those designers are assholes.
Also, most of the technical "principles" and "distinguished architects" designing systems are pathologically overconfident in themselves. You'll be implementing their ideas for many years to come anyways.
I can hear the booo and hisses already, but this is a large reason why I fucking hate Windows. Let's be real here, everyone getting hacked by these knuckleheads are idiots themselves (to a degree) AND running windows. But what about this: I just imaged and updated my Windows 7 64 system, only use Firefox, and have Microsoft AV (free) enabled. I was minding my own business surfing the web in what I thought was a fairly secure setup, some random popup or link injected code through what I believe was a flash vulnerability (again the box was only a month old) and installed some fucked up rootkit that MS AV actually found the next day. WTF? 0-day exploits CRUSH windows, despite the UAV etc, some how this shit still gets through. Yes, I could have done probably xyz things to protect myself, which I would believe if I were running XP, but this is a 1Mo old version of 7, automatic updates, and I only use firefox. FML.
Web browsers should run in a VM session that is incompatible with the host operating system on a binary level. This kind of aformentioned horseshit rarely if ever happens to everyday average normal guys just browsing the web on their Macs or Ubuntu boxes. Also, fuck it, I'm only browsing the web on a Linux image from now on on this Windows box (and just for reference the box is only used for gaming, occasionally slashdot raging)
It occurred to me how obsolete television has become in my life after reading this thread and realizing that at one point in my life, TV was actually *important*. I remember coming home from school and turning it on, watching TV for hours on end and that was was "OK". After the Interwebs and PCs took over as my main source of *everything digitally consumable*, I never looked back. A week ago a family member bought a new 70' Sharp TV (all the rage right?) and offered to give us their maybe 5 year old 50' rear projection TV (imagine a 50' Sony that has 3x more depth than a newer LCD). Without hesitation I turned them down, why? Because I have two relatively new large LCD TVs that I _never_ use. I realize my younger years I would have killed for such a device, for free. My view on TV is a mix of nostalgia and worthlessness. Like Landline phones, CRTs, VHS, Palm PDAs (lol) and so on.
Except for Breaking Bad.. Best. Show. Ever. And I watch it on Netflix and iTunes, so I guess I'm not really even talking about a TV show anymore.
I like ESXi for the handful of random non-production systems I use. I just don't buy that VM is the right direction for every company as a primary platform. Sure, small scale VM has it's benefits, but in a large scale scenario the overhead and vendor lock in becomes short sighted. Yes, eventually with enough VM in your datacenter, you'll save money, but at what long term expense? What's that vendor proprietary solution going to do for you in 10 years when you want to move to the next big thing? I say build out your DC using commodity hardware and design your applications and network with fault tolerance and efficiency in mind. Need a more efficient footprint? Try microservers http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/poweredge-c5125/pd
1. Focus on getting the best bang for your buck with commodity hardware
2. Focus your people on streamlining operations for this model (instead of focusing on how to integrate VM with existing models, etc)
3. Design your applications/architecture around not having some magical single box with a thousand mac addresses that can move around the data center on a whim.
Who would be dumb enough to believe in this model? Google and Facebook, for starters.
Ya'll are crazy. Crazy I tell you.
You can just do what the GOV does and wiretap your traffic for irregular behavior (related to root-kits and other malicious code) running on your network, at any layer. I'm sure the shady bastards in china have TRIED to put back doors in the software/hardware but there are ways to detect them. So, whenever you get a new piece of equipment, upgrade the code to whatever the vendor is offering (ie. at clean version) and do a little packet inspection to see what's really happening. Has anyone actually found any REAL evidence of what the article is proposing? A massive conspiracy of hardware and software-based back doors from the government of China..No. If it existed there would be more evidence of it. There isn't any that I'm aware of (public knowledge could be suppressed but that's another topic) This is not much better than 1950's McCarthy rampant speculation. It's healthy paranoia at best.
I think that it's great when a company is blamed on having poor products when it's really the company using them (in this case, NTT). The way the article is presented seems unfairly biased. The problem isn't with cisco products here but the lack of knowledge on scaling them properly. The headline is similar to saying something like "Ford Motor company cars involved in most car accidents historically". A properly designed network with just about any vendor, especially cisco, would have avoided this issue.
Could anyone explain to me if using one of these mega-powered rail guns would create a feasable means to build underground tunnels? I mean it seems like something with this much power (and using the right projectile/drillhead/whathave you) could put some serious hurt on a mountain in close-range proximity, but what if it was put underground, how could this be used to build tunnels?
Tunnel building is a slightly OCD interest of mine.
Great, now I'll be able to check myspace from anywhere at blazing fast 4G speeds!
On a more serious note, a unified Wimax and the ubiquitous and mobile high speed data it will provide will revolutionize society as we know it. I'm just sayin is all..
Seems like CacheLogic will be providing hardware supporting this new CDP protocol (which, ahem, CISCO Discovery protocol also shares the same acronym). Neato. It's open source as well, so I'm sure we'll see ISP's deploying linux boxes running the CDP daemon..CacheLogic and BitTorrent didd good. One thing I noticed on the official press release was that the engine caches content, but specifically 'legitimate content'. Hmm..
I work with about 200+ people in a very large IT department (20,000+ employee corporation). It's probably more diverse than I would have guessed, but it's not really surprising that it isn't all white males. It's fairly well rounded with a a large percentage of not only women (which is great..) but people from all walks of life. It's obvious that IT has some of the brightest and diverse people around, I just can't imagine this sort of thing.
This is a similar comparison to the thoery that cell phones might give you some kind of brain cancer. It's still highly disputed and nobody can be too certain, there is logic to it but it's hard to prove either way when dealing with sublties of the human body (obviously this isn't always the case)
The real dangers lie with people inadvertantly exposing themselves to danger because they are effectively disabling an important sensory organ.
Take hiking/running in the desert with a music player on full blast, how the world are you going to hear a rattle snake or other really pissed-off animal or reptile. conversely how can anyone tell if a car has just ramped on the sidewalk behind you while jogging in manhattan?
You've essentially reduced yourself to someone who is deaf. Although...when compared to listening to my coworkers....gimme the friggin thing on full blast.
I think alot of people are going to reach for this product simply because the two devices are bundled together. I personally carry a pager, cell phone (razr), ipod (4th gen 40g), headphones, keys, wallet, badge(s) and all kinds of crazy other things in my pockets and would crap a brick if I could get rid of some of the extras, but absolutely not at the cost of features . I don't want a smaller drive, less battery life, and host of other trade-offs. Also, the writer is correct, motorola still can't design a decent interface. It also isn't a clam-shell design and *everyone* knows that the candy-bar designs suck. In short, suck it, rockr.
The bug effects systems running ip auth-proxy , I feel bad for anyone that has to run it. I played with it a bit while experimenting wireless security schemes and I found it to be useless (to be fair it wasn't designed for it, either)
If you are someone you know are running any of the following versions of code, please think of the baby seals and upgrade. That is all.
Devices that are running the following release trains of Cisco IOS are affected if Firewall Authentication Proxy for FTP and/or Telnet Sessions is configured and applied to an active interface.
12.2ZH and 12.2ZL based trains
12.3 based trains
12.3T based trains
12.4 based trains
12.4T based trains
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Every slashdot thread about Apple is going to be full of the same dolts who can't see the bigger picture. Can people buy something because they love it? Does it perform beautifully? Does it do what I want it to do, better, faster, longer? Yes. Then I buy it, because I have the money to spend on it, because I'm a reasonable person who doesn't want all the lame features and crappy 2nd rate applications that android devices have. Let's be fair here, it doesn't matter what the sweaty neck beards here on slashdot say, because they said the same shit about every Apple release since the first iPod, they just don't get it. They also don't get social interactions, females, really good music, and the simple, pleasurable things in life, because they are sweaty neckbeards and will always target why something isn't good enough instead of why Apple products sell like gangbusters (her knees are too boney): People buy Apple iPhones (and other gear) because they WORK GREAT.
If your employer would do its due diligence and correctly vet potential employees, having a cert wouldn't be a "red flag", and instead would be a valuable addition. I'm not saying every MCSE (is this still a thing?) aught to automatically be considered an expert genius, but rather it is unfair to penalize those who have the experience, the knowledge, and put themselves through the certification exam to help tie it all together.
I've worked in very large enterprise IT for over 10 years, saying X qualification (certs, diploma) isn't necessary might be true for some people, but to say it as a reg flag just sounds ignorant and I would question your management and hiring practices. To put it simply, knowledge != bad_thing
This is almost certainly a result of a network change plus some really bad luck. Big player BGP peering connections are under intense scrutiny right now because of a few mistakes made at company A were introducing blackhole routes into company B (c,d,e,f's) routers.
Networking is the most often overlooked, often shit on, everyday service that everyone ab(uses) and gets pissed when it doesn't work properly. Like toilets.
I worked for a very large company and analysed data from network packet capture devices that would sift through data and find interesting items. It was quite a head job after awhile. So many people doing dumb things at work and getting caught. Reasonable seeming people looking at fucked up porn (men and women coworkers), people hooking up with random strangers in public restrooms (facilitating this online on their work computers, it happens alot), people having groupsex and viewing the photos at work (via web email), total perverts preying on teenagers (stockholm syndrome in full effect), really anything wrenched or nasty you hear about in the news is like the tip of the iceberg when given a large enough sample size of the general able populous. It may have tweaked my view of people in retrospect, basically it was a really long course in human psychology. I wouldn't ever do that shit again, or anything close to it, but I have respect for people who do.
I live in an expensive area of the country, partially just to avoid the heat. I spent 20 years in Phoenix and don't mind paying a few hundred extra per month to live here. I don't think it's hit 80 degrees yet today.
Apparently it's raining in Phoenix and potentially ruining what few outdoor plans were made. In the summer (6 months of the year) it's either 110+ degrees or it decides to rain, thunderstorm and a dust cloud rolls in. I don't miss that place right now.
The fact that one company owns the license to this technology and makes no guarantees to _not_ increase licensing costs means that once h.264 support is the be-all end-all solution to web video, this one company has a monopoly on the sole video technology that drives the web. Most people running windows/mac have probably indirectly paid for licensing fees for h.264 multiple times. Nice racket they've got there and nobody is complaining, yet.
Here's a pretty good article:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/a-closer-look-at-the-costs-and-fine-print-of-h264-licenses/2884
from the article:
To use and distribute H.264, browser and OS vendors, hardware manufacturers, and publishers who charge for content must pay significant royalties—with no guarantee the fees won’t increase in the future. To companies like Google, the license fees may not be material, but to the next great video startup and those in emerging markets these fees stifle innovation. []
1. Steve announces a huge restructure, openly admits how far Apple has fell, emphasizes Apples strengths and announces an investment by Microsoft into Apple (150Mill. then, wow, I wonder if they are still holding that stock).
Microsoft agrees to produce IE and Office for the Mac. These are huge. I would not use Mac OS X today (for work) if I had to use some half baked 3rd party software that doesn't integrate with exchange properly. Will Microsoft finally say Apple has won (as Steve foreshadows in the speech) and will they start saying things like, well, you want to continue to use Office and Exchange? You'll need Windows 8 for that. Sorry, we don't "do" Apple software anymore.
This 1997 video is one of my favorite videos to watch. What a guy Steve was. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEHNrqPkefI
There can be a naming standard that is applied to all devices, network, servers, storage, so on, that help simplify how an IT organization works. This has to be driven by management. Naming things by some arbitrary set of characters from your favorite story does not scale well, to say the least. Lets create a standard that scales like a mofo: ,logical identifer (0), physical device # (001)
ie, SJN1FIDBSW0001 The goal would be to have each device identified by a location (SJN), location code (1), businessorg (FI), zone (DB) device type (SW),
How about a web server in NYC datacenter 4 behind a load balancer, but in the DMZ, for the finance organization. The logical "placement" identifier really comes in handy to quickly tell where the hell something is located, inside outside, behind lb, not behind lb, in dmz, extranet bullshit, etc.
NYC4FIWEBSRV1001
I believe it will be too costly to rezone and rebuild everything to suit new realities that happen nearly over night. It's taken decades to build up the massive sprawl of what we have now, yet we could be looking at oil shortages that occur in days. Property values in the exurbs will plummet. Property values in any city without reasonable transportation alternatives will plummet. What cities or areas in the US will be the best bet for long term sustainability. Americans have something like 250 million cars that rely on oil for energy, if we cant fuel them cheaply, life is going to suck for everyone for years. I know we can pull oil out of the tar sands and wherever else, but it takes years to get any oil and it's simply never going to match what we can pull out now.
Living in the suburban hell created during the "greatest generation" when shit hits the fan is going to be no fun. I use sites like walkscore.com to see in my city where the most efficiency can be gained simply by buying a house with significant daily resources in a walk-able distance. What's clear is that the vast majority of my city will be completely ef'd if gas prices double or tripple (real value) and all costs go up substantially. Peak Oil is going to send American cities in the suburbs into a tailspin because all of our cities were built under the pretext of cheap endless oil. I can really only guess what America cities might still function half way, but only guessing any cities that are extremely efficient and have a mass transit culture(NYC/Seattle).
I'm just not seeing any solution to peak oil, I know there are alternatives, but the way our system works in America is that we try every wrong solution first before we even look at the right one. We're going to hit a brick wall and suddenly be out of cheap oil before we seriously look at CNG, E85 (cellulostic, not the corn farce), Coal Oil etc. Even these are fininte resources in themselves (and polluting), but the real issue here is that our society cannot function without cheap private transportation and that system is fueled by one source of energy
It's too late to build smaller cities, more private bike paths, high rise towers. It's over. We have no money, we don't make anything, we spent our wad like a tailor park trash after winning the lotto. We're done. Our cities will not function without private transpiration.
So the question becomes, where on earth is a reasonable place to make a future given the likelihood of sudden oil shortages and price volatility brought on by lack of supply or conflict.
Well, other than know your shit and stop whining, I don't know. You haven't said what your title will be or what you will be doing. Maybe by learning operations as much as you can and about how things work today rather than try to design new pie in the sky systems. Everything needs to be gradual. Also, learn how to document for gods sakes. Try to keep things simple, yet effective. Re-use proven concepts. Managing projects is always a trade off a effectiveness and efficiency, many people forget when they design a new system how inefficient it will be for the rest of the company or systems to do their jobs with the new system. Those designers are assholes.
Also, most of the technical "principles" and "distinguished architects" designing systems are pathologically overconfident in themselves. You'll be implementing their ideas for many years to come anyways.
I can hear the booo and hisses already, but this is a large reason why I fucking hate Windows. Let's be real here, everyone getting hacked by these knuckleheads are idiots themselves (to a degree) AND running windows. But what about this: I just imaged and updated my Windows 7 64 system, only use Firefox, and have Microsoft AV (free) enabled. I was minding my own business surfing the web in what I thought was a fairly secure setup, some random popup or link injected code through what I believe was a flash vulnerability (again the box was only a month old) and installed some fucked up rootkit that MS AV actually found the next day. WTF? 0-day exploits CRUSH windows, despite the UAV etc, some how this shit still gets through. Yes, I could have done probably xyz things to protect myself, which I would believe if I were running XP, but this is a 1Mo old version of 7, automatic updates, and I only use firefox. FML.
Web browsers should run in a VM session that is incompatible with the host operating system on a binary level. This kind of aformentioned horseshit rarely if ever happens to everyday average normal guys just browsing the web on their Macs or Ubuntu boxes. Also, fuck it, I'm only browsing the web on a Linux image from now on on this Windows box (and just for reference the box is only used for gaming, occasionally slashdot raging)
It occurred to me how obsolete television has become in my life after reading this thread and realizing that at one point in my life, TV was actually *important*. I remember coming home from school and turning it on, watching TV for hours on end and that was was "OK". After the Interwebs and PCs took over as my main source of *everything digitally consumable*, I never looked back. A week ago a family member bought a new 70' Sharp TV (all the rage right?) and offered to give us their maybe 5 year old 50' rear projection TV (imagine a 50' Sony that has 3x more depth than a newer LCD). Without hesitation I turned them down, why? Because I have two relatively new large LCD TVs that I _never_ use. I realize my younger years I would have killed for such a device, for free. My view on TV is a mix of nostalgia and worthlessness. Like Landline phones, CRTs, VHS, Palm PDAs (lol) and so on.
Except for Breaking Bad.. Best. Show. Ever. And I watch it on Netflix and iTunes, so I guess I'm not really even talking about a TV show anymore.
I like ESXi for the handful of random non-production systems I use. I just don't buy that VM is the right direction for every company as a primary platform. Sure, small scale VM has it's benefits, but in a large scale scenario the overhead and vendor lock in becomes short sighted. Yes, eventually with enough VM in your datacenter, you'll save money, but at what long term expense? What's that vendor proprietary solution going to do for you in 10 years when you want to move to the next big thing? I say build out your DC using commodity hardware and design your applications and network with fault tolerance and efficiency in mind. Need a more efficient footprint? Try microservers http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/poweredge-c5125/pd 1. Focus on getting the best bang for your buck with commodity hardware 2. Focus your people on streamlining operations for this model (instead of focusing on how to integrate VM with existing models, etc) 3. Design your applications/architecture around not having some magical single box with a thousand mac addresses that can move around the data center on a whim. Who would be dumb enough to believe in this model? Google and Facebook, for starters.
Ya'll are crazy. Crazy I tell you. You can just do what the GOV does and wiretap your traffic for irregular behavior (related to root-kits and other malicious code) running on your network, at any layer. I'm sure the shady bastards in china have TRIED to put back doors in the software/hardware but there are ways to detect them. So, whenever you get a new piece of equipment, upgrade the code to whatever the vendor is offering (ie. at clean version) and do a little packet inspection to see what's really happening. Has anyone actually found any REAL evidence of what the article is proposing? A massive conspiracy of hardware and software-based back doors from the government of China..No. If it existed there would be more evidence of it. There isn't any that I'm aware of (public knowledge could be suppressed but that's another topic) This is not much better than 1950's McCarthy rampant speculation. It's healthy paranoia at best.
I think that it's great when a company is blamed on having poor products when it's really the company using them (in this case, NTT). The way the article is presented seems unfairly biased. The problem isn't with cisco products here but the lack of knowledge on scaling them properly. The headline is similar to saying something like "Ford Motor company cars involved in most car accidents historically". A properly designed network with just about any vendor, especially cisco, would have avoided this issue.
Could anyone explain to me if using one of these mega-powered rail guns would create a feasable means to build underground tunnels? I mean it seems like something with this much power (and using the right projectile/drillhead/whathave you) could put some serious hurt on a mountain in close-range proximity, but what if it was put underground, how could this be used to build tunnels?
Tunnel building is a slightly OCD interest of mine.
Great, now I'll be able to check myspace from anywhere at blazing fast 4G speeds!
On a more serious note, a unified Wimax and the ubiquitous and mobile high speed data it will provide will revolutionize society as we know it. I'm just sayin is all..
Seems like CacheLogic will be providing hardware supporting this new CDP protocol (which, ahem, CISCO Discovery protocol also shares the same acronym). Neato. It's open source as well, so I'm sure we'll see ISP's deploying linux boxes running the CDP daemon..CacheLogic and BitTorrent didd good. One thing I noticed on the official press release was that the engine caches content, but specifically 'legitimate content'. Hmm..
I work with about 200+ people in a very large IT department (20,000+ employee corporation). It's probably more diverse than I would have guessed, but it's not really surprising that it isn't all white males. It's fairly well rounded with a a large percentage of not only women (which is great..) but people from all walks of life. It's obvious that IT has some of the brightest and diverse people around, I just can't imagine this sort of thing.
Hmm..I liked this better when it was called Baileys Irish Cream & Coffee.
This is a similar comparison to the thoery that cell phones might give you some kind of brain cancer. It's still highly disputed and nobody can be too certain, there is logic to it but it's hard to prove either way when dealing with sublties of the human body (obviously this isn't always the case)
The real dangers lie with people inadvertantly exposing themselves to danger because they are effectively disabling an important sensory organ.
Take hiking/running in the desert with a music player on full blast, how the world are you going to hear a rattle snake or other really pissed-off animal or reptile. conversely how can anyone tell if a car has just ramped on the sidewalk behind you while jogging in manhattan?
You've essentially reduced yourself to someone who is deaf. Although...when compared to listening to my coworkers....gimme the friggin thing on full blast.
I think alot of people are going to reach for this product simply because the two devices are bundled together. I personally carry a pager, cell phone (razr), ipod (4th gen 40g), headphones, keys, wallet, badge(s) and all kinds of crazy other things in my pockets and would crap a brick if I could get rid of some of the extras, but absolutely not at the cost of features . I don't want a smaller drive, less battery life, and host of other trade-offs. Also, the writer is correct, motorola still can't design a decent interface. It also isn't a clam-shell design and *everyone* knows that the candy-bar designs suck. In short, suck it, rockr.
If you are someone you know are running any of the following versions of code, please think of the baby seals and upgrade. That is all.
Devices that are running the following release trains of Cisco IOS are affected if Firewall Authentication Proxy for FTP and/or Telnet Sessions is configured and applied to an active interface.
12.2ZH and 12.2ZL based trains 12.3 based trains 12.3T based trains 12.4 based trains 12.4T based trains
Why is Che on this list? Socialist != psychopath.