Yep! I actually have tested a vax for nearly one year with *NO* root password, and with telnet, and nobody ever logged onto it. Nobody uses BSD 4.3 with telnet & win98 is quickly going that way too... Welcome to the obsolete internet!
What was their target market again? I was under the impression it was the mobile desktop.... Do they power cell phones etc etc?
As far as the game market, Im sure that it has something to do with low cost altivec... Not to mention IBMs willingness to branch out the cpu for high volume customers... Where as xbox, and ps2 volume is nothing to an intel....
The only reason people even care about this dead company is becuase Linus once worked there.
Face it this company is toast. NeXT even posted a profitable quater once too, and look where they are!
Ok kinda bad example, but unless someone wants their "technology" on a firesale this sucker is in game over territory.
And for all the boo hoo hoo geeks, you are like the fan bois that go on and on about the PPC, MIPS & the Dec Alpha, and yet have never owned one either in their hayday, or afterwards.
Face it the market is only in it for FAST x86, nobody cares about power. And if they did they want to see it from intel, or AMD.
No wait, what am I thinking?! There probably will never be an object filesystem, true multiuser, or pretty much any of the goals from cairo. Hell we still dont have a real object desktop just the dressed up simulation from windows 95 (chicago) days.
Microsoft gets an F on delivering the goods in the timeframe they prommised.. Cairo was supposto have most of the core features back in 1997...
yeah sure.. if you have lets say 3000 computers you want to rdp into how do you do that??? Oh and the people connecting are end users, so no registery hacks, thanks... Sorry NAT FUCKING SUCKS.
1 this is the whole point of software. I know people insist on compiling their stacks to asics, but check this out bub, I can route ipv6 on a 2500. Im sorry but flexibility of IOS trumps any stupid asic. Oh and on the lameness of cisco, yeah they do make some really lame products (*8500*) but have you actually compared CCO vs the others? Give me a break, if anything this tells me that you have never done any *REAL* networking on anything bigger than a 2500 or a 1900. Belive me the cat 6500 with sup3s kill any crappy 3com (you would be tottaly fucking nuts to go back to 3com after they dropped everyone) or foundry.
If you dont belive me, just search the tech support online. Then call TAC.. notice how they have REAL 24x7 support all around the world???
2 Ok now you just said you know NOTHING about applications. Do you have any idea how much NAT has held back application development? Yea that right, what about VOIP, video conferencing?? IM shouldnt need a centeral server, clients should be able to contact eachother, my cellphone should have an ip, hell even my car. Mobile ipv6, and the 2^24 ip address will fix this hands down. Belive me stupid thinking like this has stagnated real app development in the last 10 years. Just ask any CORBA application to nat.
3 What kind of routers are you using? Gee get on the clue train, its 2005, and I can get 512MB dimms for 43$ USD! With the advent of 64bit cpus (cisco loves MIPS, which are 64bit) a router with 512 or a couple of gigs isnt un heard of. Not to mention have you seen any papers on how ipv6 is layed out? Its not ipv4 with/17 split horizon nonsense. This isnt ipv4, and its not 1970!
4 What the hell are you worried about 20bytes for? What are you using dialup?? If so please cancel your AOL account, and go back to watching American Idol. Please for the sake of the internet.
See in the banking industry we run these "penetration scans" all the time, that are TOTALY WORTHLESS. I cannot emphasize this enough, that running the weakest setup possbile will pass their "tests" with flying colours. The people doing these tests (Some certified security specialists!) Think that firewalls are magical devices that know how to stop the pesky hackers. Bottom line is that people are involved, they are out of their element, and simply placeholders. Management in general needs to get out of this "placerholder" mentality when it comes to jobs, and just fire people that are not doing their jobs.
Ok enough ranting, but trust me, in the late 90s banks were trying to outsource as many things as possible from customer service, to invoicing, bills, credit collections, applications and so on. As you can see when the "Credit card company" becomes nothing more than a brand, and a board of execs, everything is out of their control, not to mention every peice of the old credit empire is open for attack.....
If anything the question is why did it take so long to find them?!
Once upon a time, if you killed people, stole a signifigant amount of money, or trafficed drugs you were a felon.. Seems now everything is a felon... I wonder what % of the US is felons????
You've never worked in the banking industry I can tell;) You should see the process for developing a 'new' plastic card.. it can take upwards of *7* years...
Banks are so slow its no wonder they still live in COBOL & MVS days...
Japanese credit is out of hand... Honestly they dont want or need it.. Although they are advertising Jcredit all over the place.. Sadly Im mostly illiterate so I dont fully understand the ads, but I did see the interest ammount! Tottaly INSANE!
This is what VOIP needs.. end to end connectivity, real connectivity, none of this nat shit. Nat has held back any real development since it's inception. Now I know you'll say boo hoo my ISP doesnt do ipv6, so that's what 6to4 is all about.
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I love that bit, no servicepacks.... hell no av either cause they usually cost money too..... ugh.
Dont get me started about windows for workgroups 3.11 with win32s!
Yep! I actually have tested a vax for nearly one year with *NO* root password, and with telnet, and nobody ever logged onto it. Nobody uses BSD 4.3 with telnet & win98 is quickly going that way too... Welcome to the obsolete internet!
Features!=speed... Perhaps there is something to be said for MSDOS
As far as the game market, Im sure that it has something to do with low cost altivec... Not to mention IBMs willingness to branch out the cpu for high volume customers... Where as xbox, and ps2 volume is nothing to an intel....
.. which was my point, but do you see anyone buying some 32bit x86 sorta clone? Unless its SGI that wants to go their own way, its game over.
Face it this company is toast. NeXT even posted a profitable quater once too, and look where they are!
Ok kinda bad example, but unless someone wants their "technology" on a firesale this sucker is in game over territory.
And for all the boo hoo hoo geeks, you are like the fan bois that go on and on about the PPC, MIPS & the Dec Alpha, and yet have never owned one either in their hayday, or afterwards.
Face it the market is only in it for FAST x86, nobody cares about power. And if they did they want to see it from intel, or AMD.
Microsoft gets an F on delivering the goods in the timeframe they prommised.. Cairo was supposto have most of the core features back in 1997...
And here we are waiting again..
I hear you can get c++ for something like $3.50 USD an hour.. But youll have to accept your treefidy, and like it.
Unless his bios is too old to do the floppy emulation from CD, in which case he needs to flash the bios.. nice little circular reference.
Not to mention things like voip.
If you dont belive me, just search the tech support online. Then call TAC.. notice how they have REAL 24x7 support all around the world???
2 Ok now you just said you know NOTHING about applications. Do you have any idea how much NAT has held back application development? Yea that right, what about VOIP, video conferencing?? IM shouldnt need a centeral server, clients should be able to contact eachother, my cellphone should have an ip, hell even my car. Mobile ipv6, and the 2^24 ip address will fix this hands down. Belive me stupid thinking like this has stagnated real app development in the last 10 years. Just ask any CORBA application to nat.
3 What kind of routers are you using? Gee get on the clue train, its 2005, and I can get 512MB dimms for 43$ USD! With the advent of 64bit cpus (cisco loves MIPS, which are 64bit) a router with 512 or a couple of gigs isnt un heard of. Not to mention have you seen any papers on how ipv6 is layed out? Its not ipv4 with /17 split horizon nonsense. This isnt ipv4, and its not 1970!
4 What the hell are you worried about 20bytes for? What are you using dialup?? If so please cancel your AOL account, and go back to watching American Idol. Please for the sake of the internet.
I heard on NPR that as soon as they find the others private residances it will be just that.
jeez does our editor overloads know anything about Sun, unix or hardware!?
Binary found to be more efficent than base 10....
is right here. The boat trapped in the harbor is Disney by the sea. Its kinda fun, if in Tokyo Id say spend a day, and do disney.....
Learn? Think for themselves? You must be new to North America? Go and get an SUV, and start to tour around the country...
Sadly this is all comming full circle.. The big bad part of the outsourcing craze is the inability to enforce US law abroad....
Ok enough ranting, but trust me, in the late 90s banks were trying to outsource as many things as possible from customer service, to invoicing, bills, credit collections, applications and so on. As you can see when the "Credit card company" becomes nothing more than a brand, and a board of execs, everything is out of their control, not to mention every peice of the old credit empire is open for attack.....
If anything the question is why did it take so long to find them?!
If only I had a need for it......
Once upon a time, if you killed people, stole a signifigant amount of money, or trafficed drugs you were a felon.. Seems now everything is a felon... I wonder what % of the US is felons????
its on goats somewhere.... trust me!
Banks are so slow its no wonder they still live in COBOL & MVS days...
Japanese credit is out of hand... Honestly they dont want or need it.. Although they are advertising Jcredit all over the place.. Sadly Im mostly illiterate so I dont fully understand the ads, but I did see the interest ammount! Tottaly INSANE!
IPv4 is dead, long live 6to4!