Several rules to follow:
1) NEVER mix batch and production
2) NEVER mix reporting and production
3) Build on a platform that can scale
4) Do not share your CTI instance with ANY other activity.
5) Explore active:active deployment (such as Oracle 10G RAC) with transactional replication between the active nodes (such as shareplex).
Our production CTI database uses a 32CPU cluster with 90GB ram, SRDF/S replicated disk between the sites between 2 facilities and BCV snapshots for performing Backup & Recovery (BUR). We are also taking snapshots hourly to maintain RPO/RTO.
YMMV.
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I see. I give you facts and specifics. You start calling me hitler. You have no honor. You have no intelligence. You have no knowledge. You have nothing but rage, jealousy and fear. Again, I call flame bait. Go away little man.
I see. You are a tree hugging socialist liberal who obviously believes each individual European country should cease to exist and become a single homogonous nation, eliminating the unique, disparate legacy of each before joining the single, one world government which will take care of your every want and need. Right comrade? You also believe that the world should be able to tell you, regardless of where you live, how your country should be run and whether or not you can own something you may desire. The Kyoto (not Kioto) protocol (it was proposed in Kyoto, JP but you probably don't know anything about Japan, either.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol attempts to do exactly this.
You are also apprently blessed with the misconception that the CO2 and other gases generated by the American population of automobiles in any way exceeds those the gases expelled by the worlds volcanoes in a single day. I think you might want to explore a significantly higher probability that we are exiting the last "Little Ice Age" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age rather than experiencing global warming.
As for Socialism "taking care of you when" at the expense of all those remaining behind in the work force, those with a clue, a healthy income as a result of their decision to expend some hard work and getting an education and bank account choose to take care of themselves rather than expecting the government to do it for them. We also don't believe you have a right to a job just because an employer made the mistake of hiring you in the first place. In America, you actually have to EARN the OPPORTUNITY to have a job. Would I like to see some protection for those folks who have worked somewhere for 25 years from being laid off a month before their retirement? Sure. But I don't want to pay for welfare scumbags who worked as a bus boy for 20 years expecting handouts and helth care because they were too stupid to make a life for themselves. Personally, I would prefer to see their end of the gene pool, like yours, to get a bit shallower.
I will also put the healthcare available in the US ahead of anything you might have in Europe, Asia, Middle East, etc. (with a very few exceptions). And anyone without helthcare in the US can still walk into any emergency room in the US and will be treated, again, with significantly higher quality healthcare than what you are probably getting. I would have to examine a direct comparison of the quality of care where you are to what I know we are getting here http://www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/.
Before you go google some report saying how crappy US healthcare is, I can tell you it will only apply to someone who can't afford it, which really doesn't bother me. I went to school, got a good job, and I pay for healthcare for my family. I have the right to do that in the US. I didn't come from a wealthy, white collar family. My divorced mother raised 3 kids with elective welfare to help support her raising 3 kids on her own. All 3 of us worked hard and supported our own way through college and we all have successful careers. I worked for everything I have today and I wouldn't trade the quality of life I have in the USA for whatever slime hole existence you choose to suffer through.
If you think you have any hope of convincing me, or the majority here of anything to the contrary, you are sadly mistaken. And anyone who truly believes their life would be better outside the US than is here today, I would personally support paying for a one way plane ticket and a taxi to the airport. Hasta la vista, baby. We don't want or need you here any way.
You still wish you could have the opportunities we have here, pay $2.50 US a gal for gas, buy fresh Angus steaks, get fresh Maine lobster, fresh gulf shrimp, see first run movies, buy real cars, not those weenie European models. You wish you could have a Miss America pagent where the women have no under arm hair and 50% of your wages don't go for socialist taxes. You wish you had DOLLARS instead of Euros. And obviously nothing in your backyard compares to/. or you wouldn't be trying so hard to gain attention from us pitiful American slobs. And every feeble attempt you continue to make me thinks "Thou dost protest too much." Again, I call flame bait. Fermez le bouche l'enfant.
Only in America do you have the right to shout out the stupidity of the government secure in the knowledge you have the right to do so. An you are jealous for every second of the day you don't live here. I call flame bait.
Father Guido Sarducci http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Guido_Sarducci started this bit long before either of these guys, including the mustache.
I have a very similar story about meeting Father Guido but it started during a video shoot for a TV station in Dallas with "Dancing in the streets". I ended up as a walk on standing next to Father Guido for about 2 hours of takes and then we hit the closest bar for a few drinks afterwards. He really is a hilarious guy and stayed in character (he was still in costume) then entire time we were in the bar. I had a blast.
I have a Sony KDSR60XBR2
which does full 1080P. I have a game cube connected to it now. My next gaming system purchase will be in part influenced by whether or not a system supports 1080P.
So if they are end of lifing it, how long after before it can be Open Sourced? I REALLY want inst for Linux, and hinv, and current XLVM and their C compiler and... and....
Ive been a Linux user since October of 1992. I was a season Solaris and HPUX admin before that. Ive been using IRIX since 1994 or 1995. It is BY FAR the easiest to administer OS. Do you like "chkconfig"? Thank IRIX. Do you like/etc/init.d? Thank IRIX. You like/etc/config? Thank IRIX. Like rpm via ftp? Thank IRIX (inst functionality still blows away RPM. apt/yum gets you much closer but it still doesn't beat it.
I wonder if SGI is going to OSS the last MIPS distribution? Id love to update my O2 to the current version without having to buy a support contract. But I digress...
Lexis Nexis and ProQuest already have this as a business model. They both started in different areas (ProQuest in Academic research papers and Theis and Lexis-Nexis in government and legal proceedings) but they have both expanded into news print and TV broadcasts.
Google is starting to infringe on a couple of companies that already do this kind of thing but they charge for the service.
This is exactly what companies like Lexis-Nexis, http://www.lexisnexis.com/?a=g and ProQuest, http://proquest.com/ do as their significant business model. Add to the "search all the old news" the ability to email you a daily report of keyword searches anywhere in your choice of selectable data sources and you have put them out of business.
The significant difference is ProQuest built their business on all of the archived dissertations and Thesis of American colleges and Lexis-Nexis built their business on archiving legal andrnment proceedings but both have expanded into newpapers, magazines and TV broadcasts.
I have a DISH DVR on every TV in my home specifically to eliminate the need to watch commercials. I no longer watch live TV for anything but sports and even then I try to miss about the first 20 minutes to try to at least miss commercials in the first period/quarter. If given the choice of not being able to FF thru commercials or not being able to watch ABC programs, Ill be changing the channel. Whatever planet the bone head is from who thinks people are NOT buying DVR to eliminate commercials has his head up his backside.
The Dish DVR has the 30sec. FF button. push.push.push.push. No more 2 minute commercial break. The day Dish network disables the feature is the day I will eliminate Dish from my home. DirectTV are you listening? You would be my next choice (and in fact Im seriously considering the switch from Dish to DirectTV now as I contemplate the cost to upgrade all of my Dish DVR to HD DVR.) Commercials suck. I pay a premium to my media provider to receive their media stream. Unless the networks want to PAY ME for watching their commercials, I have no interest in wasting my time watching them. Don't blame DVRs for your stupid business model. Just because you get paid for running them doesn't mean that I have to watch them.
You want me to watch your content, make it compelling for me to do so.
Eliminating my ability to avoid watching your content isn't going to make me want to watch it any more. It will only make me look for a technology solution which will again deliver the ability to avoid it. If that means I build my own DVR on a pizza box PC without your FF block, then that will be a solution I will consider. If TIVO continues to function without the FF block, it will probably be my first choice and will help me select my media stream provider. I prefer an "appliance/off-the-shelf" solution over "build your own". I can guarantee you that if the commercial DVR makers are stupid enough to comply with ABC or any other media providers request to disable FF, there will be countless alternatives lined up promising the FF ability who will not comply. They WILL get my $$$.
This sure sounds like a reinforcement to the belief of Noah and the Ark. The all powerful being wipes the planet clean and all human life begins anew from a single family. Somewhere between 2000-10000BC. http://www.noahsarksearch.com/faq.htm
"If you believe evolutionary dating mechanisms (old earth of 5 billion years old), which makes many unstated assumptions as fact both before and after the flood, then you would state that the flood was probably 20,000 to 50,000 years ago. This is why old earther's scoff at the search for the ark, as it is extremely unlikely any of the boat would have survived for tens of millennia. However, if the ark is actually scientifically documented to have survived, this would present a dilemma for old earther's, who typically rely on many generations being left out of the biblical genealogies.
If you question evolutionary dating mechanisms (young earth of 6,000-10,000 years old), then you would state that the flood was between about 5000BC to 2350BC, depending on how many generations were left out of the biblical genealogies. See the Link webpage for more information."
When was Noah's Flood? 1,981 years to AD 0 plus 967 years to the founding of Solomon's Temple plus 480 years to the end of the Exodus plus 430 years to the promise to Abraham plus 75 years to Abraham's birth plus 350 years to Shem's 100th birthday plus 2 years to the Flood. The Biblical data places the Flood at 2304 BC +/- 11 years.
This date is, as expected, in conflict with secular archaeology which regards the Flood as either local or a myth and the Biblical chronologies as irrelevant or inaccurate.
The placing of a catastrophic global flood in the year 2304 BC means that all civilizations discovered by archaeology must fit into the last 4,285 years.
Of course you totally chose to ignore the basis of my post. Specifically that there isn't enough hoursepower capable of filtering and processing the sum total of all internet bandwidth every second and instead chose to respond to my request to not hear from thre tree hugging crowd.
A liberal will never respond to the facts. They respond to their feelings being hurt.
As an ex-Narus employee, this is a load of FUD. How many systems do you think it would take to capture the entire internet backbone every second? How much storage do you think it would take? Do you even consider what it would take, CPU horsepower wise, to capture maintain session state, filter and report on EVERY single communication protocol thread passing through the entire internet?
Personally, if the NSA, CIA, FBI or any other government agnecy, believes a terrorist organization is potentially using a segement of the internet and they want install fiber splitter to be able to filter and report on who they are talking to and what data they are passing, I, for one, am fully in favor of it.
And no, I really don't want to hear from the tree hugging, long hair hippy freaks who want to espouse their "Orwellian" big brother theories. If you want to do something illegal, don't use a telephone, cell phone or the internet. This has been true and will continue to be true. If you want to thwart the Narus (or any other) data capture and processing, encrypt your data. This has also always been true for land lines, cell phones and the internet.
The "Narus Lawful Intercept module" http://narus.com/products/lawful.html is fully covered under the FCC and all other lawful precepts covering communication interception for the purpose of legal activity.
Also see this: http://narus.com/solutions/intercept.html
A Narus STA is only running on a standrd Linux or Solaris system. It feeds an Oracle database back end, and has fairly rigid limits on the amount of data it can collect, store, and process. I can almost guarantee you that the STA's installed have very specific filter in place specifically defining, if not single hosts, single subnets for capture and analysis. Saying anything else is just some liberal with their panties in a wad that has no real clue about trying to sniff "the entire internet".
Look. I loved my Treo 600. Palm said it was going to release a Blackberry emulator
http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_story.asp?ID=68 24
for it, then changed the tune to say it would only be relased for the Treo 650 (sometime in December 2005). It still hasn't been released for the Treo 650 and still isn't available for the 700W. I HATE the blackberry Im forced to use on a daily basis and would much prefer to have a Palm on my hip again. How about an info update, Palm? Will you EVER release the Blackberry Connect port for PalmOS?
PLEASE!
SGI began its rapid decline the moment the announced the merger with Cray. As the stodgy crew of maanagers went on the land grab trying to justify their existence in their "new " company, it drove out many of the long hair, fast and loose crowd of exceptional engineers who believed SGI was a magical place.
SGI truly was a magical place to be. Not only the "Its Not just a job, Its a wardrobe" pens, frisbees, t-shirts for every new product, boxer shorts, key chains, and all the other swag SGI marketing was famous for. The "O" series of products, led by the Indigo2 Max-Impact were revolutionary products. Massively fast backplanes that still exceed the performance of all but a limite few systems, incredibly fast graphics sub systems with fill rates that still can't be achieved on lowly PC gear (they just can't push the bits fast enough).
In addition, SGI truly owned the internet space, well before Sun and then gave it away once Sun started the "dot in dot.com" marketing campaign. They had the NetScape server, free, included with the IRIX OS, on every server with a full HTML configuration interface in an age where most other companies still didn't have an officially supported HTTPD for their platform. They also included Indigo Magic, the FIRST full GUI HTML editor, again, free with the OS, as well as a full GUI VRML editor, and so on.
I truly weep for the company SGI used to be. It was the best job I ever had and the one I wish had never ended.
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Several rules to follow: 1) NEVER mix batch and production 2) NEVER mix reporting and production 3) Build on a platform that can scale 4) Do not share your CTI instance with ANY other activity. 5) Explore active:active deployment (such as Oracle 10G RAC) with transactional replication between the active nodes (such as shareplex). Our production CTI database uses a 32CPU cluster with 90GB ram, SRDF/S replicated disk between the sites between 2 facilities and BCV snapshots for performing Backup & Recovery (BUR). We are also taking snapshots hourly to maintain RPO/RTO. YMMV.
where "120 proof" implies "60% alcohol by volume".
Is that 4 x 64oz College size kegger jugs? 4 x 1oz shots of Everclear? 4 x Hurricanes? 4 x glasses of ripple? Ill take one of each and call it a day.
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I would personally rather see something between the first faster than light voyage and NCC-1701. Eric
I see. I give you facts and specifics. You start calling me hitler. You have no honor. You have no intelligence. You have no knowledge. You have nothing but rage, jealousy and fear. Again, I call flame bait. Go away little man.
I see. You are a tree hugging socialist liberal who obviously believes each individual European country should cease to exist and become a single homogonous nation, eliminating the unique, disparate legacy of each before joining the single, one world government which will take care of your every want and need. Right comrade? You also believe that the world should be able to tell you, regardless of where you live, how your country should be run and whether or not you can own something you may desire. The Kyoto (not Kioto) protocol (it was proposed in Kyoto, JP but you probably don't know anything about Japan, either.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol attempts to do exactly this.
You are also apprently blessed with the misconception that the CO2 and other gases generated by the American population of automobiles in any way exceeds those the gases expelled by the worlds volcanoes in a single day. I think you might want to explore a significantly higher probability that we are exiting the last "Little Ice Age" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age rather than experiencing global warming.
As for Socialism "taking care of you when" at the expense of all those remaining behind in the work force, those with a clue, a healthy income as a result of their decision to expend some hard work and getting an education and bank account choose to take care of themselves rather than expecting the government to do it for them. We also don't believe you have a right to a job just because an employer made the mistake of hiring you in the first place. In America, you actually have to EARN the OPPORTUNITY to have a job. Would I like to see some protection for those folks who have worked somewhere for 25 years from being laid off a month before their retirement? Sure. But I don't want to pay for welfare scumbags who worked as a bus boy for 20 years expecting handouts and helth care because they were too stupid to make a life for themselves. Personally, I would prefer to see their end of the gene pool, like yours, to get a bit shallower.
I will also put the healthcare available in the US ahead of anything you might have in Europe, Asia, Middle East, etc. (with a very few exceptions). And anyone without helthcare in the US can still walk into any emergency room in the US and will be treated, again, with significantly higher quality healthcare than what you are probably getting. I would have to examine a direct comparison of the quality of care where you are to what I know we are getting here http://www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/.
Before you go google some report saying how crappy US healthcare is, I can tell you it will only apply to someone who can't afford it, which really doesn't bother me. I went to school, got a good job, and I pay for healthcare for my family. I have the right to do that in the US. I didn't come from a wealthy, white collar family. My divorced mother raised 3 kids with elective welfare to help support her raising 3 kids on her own. All 3 of us worked hard and supported our own way through college and we all have successful careers. I worked for everything I have today and I wouldn't trade the quality of life I have in the USA for whatever slime hole existence you choose to suffer through.
If you think you have any hope of convincing me, or the majority here of anything to the contrary, you are sadly mistaken. And anyone who truly believes their life would be better outside the US than is here today, I would personally support paying for a one way plane ticket and a taxi to the airport. Hasta la vista, baby. We don't want or need you here any way.
You still wish you could have the opportunities we have here, pay $2.50 US a gal for gas, buy fresh Angus steaks, get fresh Maine lobster, fresh gulf shrimp, see first run movies, buy real cars, not those weenie European models. You wish you could have a Miss America pagent where the women have no under arm hair and 50% of your wages don't go for socialist taxes. You wish you had DOLLARS instead of Euros. And obviously nothing in your backyard compares to /. or you wouldn't be trying so hard to gain attention from us pitiful American slobs. And every feeble attempt you continue to make me thinks "Thou dost protest too much." Again, I call flame bait. Fermez le bouche l'enfant.
Only in America do you have the right to shout out the stupidity of the government secure in the knowledge you have the right to do so. An you are jealous for every second of the day you don't live here. I call flame bait.
I edited the Wikipedia page you reference above to: See also Tin Hat - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin-foil_hat
Father Guido Sarducci http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Guido_Sarducci started this bit long before either of these guys, including the mustache.
I have a very similar story about meeting Father Guido but it started during a video shoot for a TV station in Dallas with "Dancing in the streets". I ended up as a walk on standing next to Father Guido for about 2 hours of takes and then we hit the closest bar for a few drinks afterwards. He really is a hilarious guy and stayed in character (he was still in costume) then entire time we were in the bar. I had a blast.
Just thought this was interesting. I just went to download the FireFox 2.0 RC3 version and got this URL: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/download.htm l?product=firefox-2.0rc3&os=win&lang=en-US
and decided to try and munge the URL to this:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/download.htm l?product=firefox-2.0&os=win&lang=en-US
Both have certs which expire 02/Nov/2006. :(
I prefer hosed.
I for one am glad we continue to be protected. Who knows, maybe they will find even more people trying to kill us! Wouldn't that be great, too!
I have a Sony KDSR60XBR2 which does full 1080P. I have a game cube connected to it now. My next gaming system purchase will be in part influenced by whether or not a system supports 1080P.
Democrats lost. Get over it. Move along... Move along...
So if they are end of lifing it, how long after before it can be Open Sourced? I REALLY want inst for Linux, and hinv, and current XLVM and their C compiler and... and....
/etc/init.d? Thank IRIX. You like /etc/config? Thank IRIX. Like rpm via ftp? Thank IRIX (inst functionality still blows away RPM. apt/yum gets you much closer but it still doesn't beat it.
Ive been a Linux user since October of 1992. I was a season Solaris and HPUX admin before that. Ive been using IRIX since 1994 or 1995. It is BY FAR the easiest to administer OS. Do you like "chkconfig"? Thank IRIX. Do you like
I wonder if SGI is going to OSS the last MIPS distribution? Id love to update my O2 to the current version without having to buy a support contract. But I digress...
Lexis Nexis and ProQuest already have this as a business model. They both started in different areas (ProQuest in Academic research papers and Theis and Lexis-Nexis in government and legal proceedings) but they have both expanded into news print and TV broadcasts.
Google is starting to infringe on a couple of companies that already do this kind of thing but they charge for the service. This is exactly what companies like Lexis-Nexis, http://www.lexisnexis.com/?a=g and ProQuest, http://proquest.com/ do as their significant business model. Add to the "search all the old news" the ability to email you a daily report of keyword searches anywhere in your choice of selectable data sources and you have put them out of business. The significant difference is ProQuest built their business on all of the archived dissertations and Thesis of American colleges and Lexis-Nexis built their business on archiving legal andrnment proceedings but both have expanded into newpapers, magazines and TV broadcasts.
I have a DISH DVR on every TV in my home specifically to eliminate the need to watch commercials. I no longer watch live TV for anything but sports and even then I try to miss about the first 20 minutes to try to at least miss commercials in the first period/quarter. If given the choice of not being able to FF thru commercials or not being able to watch ABC programs, Ill be changing the channel. Whatever planet the bone head is from who thinks people are NOT buying DVR to eliminate commercials has his head up his backside.
The Dish DVR has the 30sec. FF button. push.push.push.push. No more 2 minute commercial break. The day Dish network disables the feature is the day I will eliminate Dish from my home. DirectTV are you listening? You would be my next choice (and in fact Im seriously considering the switch from Dish to DirectTV now as I contemplate the cost to upgrade all of my Dish DVR to HD DVR.)
Commercials suck. I pay a premium to my media provider to receive their media stream. Unless the networks want to PAY ME for watching their commercials, I have no interest in wasting my time watching them. Don't blame DVRs for your stupid business model. Just because you get paid for running them doesn't mean that I have to watch them.
You want me to watch your content, make it compelling for me to do so.
Eliminating my ability to avoid watching your content isn't going to make me want to watch it any more. It will only make me look for a technology solution which will again deliver the ability to avoid it. If that means I build my own DVR on a pizza box PC without your FF block, then that will be a solution I will consider. If TIVO continues to function without the FF block, it will probably be my first choice and will help me select my media stream provider. I prefer an "appliance/off-the-shelf" solution over "build your own". I can guarantee you that if the commercial DVR makers are stupid enough to comply with ABC or any other media providers request to disable FF, there will be countless alternatives lined up promising the FF ability who will not comply. They WILL get my $$$.
http://www.noahsarksearch.com/faq.htm
"If you believe evolutionary dating mechanisms (old earth of 5 billion years old), which makes many unstated assumptions as fact both before and after the flood, then you would state that the flood was probably 20,000 to 50,000 years ago. This is why old earther's scoff at the search for the ark, as it is extremely unlikely any of the boat would have survived for tens of millennia. However, if the ark is actually scientifically documented to have survived, this would present a dilemma for old earther's, who typically rely on many generations being left out of the biblical genealogies.
If you question evolutionary dating mechanisms (young earth of 6,000-10,000 years old), then you would state that the flood was between about 5000BC to 2350BC, depending on how many generations were left out of the biblical genealogies. See the Link webpage for more information."
f lood.asp
This page is quote facinating when taken in context with the geneology data:
http://answersingenesis.org/creation/v4/i1/noahs_
When was Noah's Flood? 1,981 years to AD 0 plus 967 years to the founding of Solomon's Temple plus 480 years to the end of the Exodus plus 430 years to the promise to Abraham plus 75 years to Abraham's birth plus 350 years to Shem's 100th birthday plus 2 years to the Flood. The Biblical data places the Flood at 2304 BC +/- 11 years.
This date is, as expected, in conflict with secular archaeology which regards the Flood as either local or a myth and the Biblical chronologies as irrelevant or inaccurate.
The placing of a catastrophic global flood in the year 2304 BC means that all civilizations discovered by archaeology must fit into the last 4,285 years.
Of course you totally chose to ignore the basis of my post. Specifically that there isn't enough hoursepower capable of filtering and processing the sum total of all internet bandwidth every second and instead chose to respond to my request to not hear from thre tree hugging crowd. A liberal will never respond to the facts. They respond to their feelings being hurt.
As an ex-Narus employee, this is a load of FUD. How many systems do you think it would take to capture the entire internet backbone every second? How much storage do you think it would take? Do you even consider what it would take, CPU horsepower wise, to capture maintain session state, filter and report on EVERY single communication protocol thread passing through the entire internet?
Personally, if the NSA, CIA, FBI or any other government agnecy, believes a terrorist organization is potentially using a segement of the internet and they want install fiber splitter to be able to filter and report on who they are talking to and what data they are passing, I, for one, am fully in favor of it.
And no, I really don't want to hear from the tree hugging, long hair hippy freaks who want to espouse their "Orwellian" big brother theories. If you want to do something illegal, don't use a telephone, cell phone or the internet. This has been true and will continue to be true. If you want to thwart the Narus (or any other) data capture and processing, encrypt your data. This has also always been true for land lines, cell phones and the internet.
The "Narus Lawful Intercept module" http://narus.com/products/lawful.html is fully covered under the FCC and all other lawful precepts covering communication interception for the purpose of legal activity.
Also see this: http://narus.com/solutions/intercept.html
A Narus STA is only running on a standrd Linux or Solaris system. It feeds an Oracle database back end, and has fairly rigid limits on the amount of data it can collect, store, and process. I can almost guarantee you that the STA's installed have very specific filter in place specifically defining, if not single hosts, single subnets for capture and analysis. Saying anything else is just some liberal with their panties in a wad that has no real clue about trying to sniff "the entire internet".
Look. I loved my Treo 600. Palm said it was going to release a Blackberry emulator http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_story.asp?ID=68 24
for it, then changed the tune to say it would only be relased for the Treo 650 (sometime in December 2005). It still hasn't been released for the Treo 650 and still isn't available for the 700W. I HATE the blackberry Im forced to use on a daily basis and would much prefer to have a Palm on my hip again. How about an info update, Palm? Will you EVER release the Blackberry Connect port for PalmOS?
PLEASE!
SGI began its rapid decline the moment the announced the merger with Cray. As the stodgy crew of maanagers went on the land grab trying to justify their existence in their "new " company, it drove out many of the long hair, fast and loose crowd of exceptional engineers who believed SGI was a magical place.
SGI truly was a magical place to be. Not only the "Its Not just a job, Its a wardrobe" pens, frisbees, t-shirts for every new product, boxer shorts, key chains, and all the other swag SGI marketing was famous for. The "O" series of products, led by the Indigo2 Max-Impact were revolutionary products. Massively fast backplanes that still exceed the performance of all but a limite few systems, incredibly fast graphics sub systems with fill rates that still can't be achieved on lowly PC gear (they just can't push the bits fast enough).
In addition, SGI truly owned the internet space, well before Sun and then gave it away once Sun started the "dot in dot.com" marketing campaign. They had the NetScape server, free, included with the IRIX OS, on every server with a full HTML configuration interface in an age where most other companies still didn't have an officially supported HTTPD for their platform. They also included Indigo Magic, the FIRST full GUI HTML editor, again, free with the OS, as well as a full GUI VRML editor, and so on.
I truly weep for the company SGI used to be. It was the best job I ever had and the one I wish had never ended.