>>that it provides both automatic and configurable packet prioritization,
I wonder what penalty is incurred by the packet inspection overhead? I betthings run better with a plain-jane nat router and NO filters or rules to slow things down..
>> Maybe if you'd RTFA, you'd have noticed
Oh, yeah. good luck Reading TFA - it's timed out on the second page for me...
>>>> With intel, I can buy a motherboard with a intel or serverworks chipsets, which is not exactly the same than a VIA/Nvidia shitty chipset that people uses with AMDs.
>>You're obviously not a gamer.
I think what DELL needs to do is start a second in-house "brand" just to build and market AMD based solutions. - When selling to business, it can be blown off as "our gamer line" and they can keep on pimping Intel... When sold to everyone else they can call it "our cost effective" line.
O.K - I seem to be getting *lots* of responses to this post, many along the lines of "you suck as an admin".
I'll respond collectively here:
#1 Pretty much everyone who has responded has seen this as a tech problem, and it is not. It is an HR problem. When you are a well educated and well paid professional, your employer should be able to give you a wide open box and internet connection without having to police your behaviour
Further and more importantly, when someone fixes a problem for you - particularly one you keep causing, they shouldn't get "static", by which I mean foul language, smart remarks about their lack of skill or poor cooperation. What they should get is Thanks. - I'm nice to the ladies who make my lunch everyday, I'm nice to the folks that clean my office and if I need to call tech support I'm nice to them too. It doesn't cost anything to be nice..
The real problem here is employee behaviour
#2 - I work for a large company. I mean really really large. We have more people on tier one help desk than many companies employ total. I am an admin, but I am not "the" admin - we don't have one. I don't control the firewall and I'm not responsible for building workstations or setting policy on them. So yes, I do know better, but fixing it would require more politics than I care to undertake..
#3 no more troll food... Moving on, won't reply any further.
>> So at the end of the day, yeah, I've blown a saturday afternoon getting something to work under linux, but under windows I just wouldn't have got it to work at all.
I think, really the reason any of us "waste an afternoon" is because we like doing it. Maybe I'm getting older, but I seem to have less time/inclination to do it these days.
>> Sometimes, I have no choice but to give a user full Admin rights...I grind my teeth as I do so, knowing full well I'll be called to disinfect the machine of countless spyware programs within weeks, if not days.
That's where I live buddy.
We have a room full of people of varying ability who all have unlimited access because [censored p.o.s. software package] doesn't run otherwise. These guys surf a lot, clicking "yes" on every friggen dialogue box they see... literally can't go a full week without some exploit being loaded.
zero user buy-in for security - When someone shows up to remove the exploit-of-the-week for them, they get is static about "touching my machine". It pains me to be in the same room sometimes...
>> it didn't take me $1k of time to get it that way, either.
I wish more people considered the cost of time... not trying to sound like a "windows TCO" ad, but how many times have you needed to get [pick anything here] to work and blown a whole Saturday afternoon?
I love slackware. I use it every day..but after RTFA, I might just give SUSE a spin.
No kidding. All you need is a pulse and tuition. Basic literacy or work ethic optional... and I don't think profs using this software send a message to the students that says otherwise.
I would be really really stroked to have anything I wrote graded by software. - I got lots of marks I didn't agree with in college, but I could always take it up with the person who did the marking...
>> We had a case recently where a bunch of stock brokers were fired (and sued as I recall) because the sms messages they thought were safe; weren't!
Can't find a link, but I know the case AC is talking about.
The group was looking at quitting to form a company in competition with their employer. They apparently exchanged communication to this end via company supplied blackberries.... D'oh.
Can't imagine letting a group with such poor judgement handle my investments.
I think you're right. That's the way we do it, but - (there's always a but) some cabinets still get damn hot depending on what's in the rack. Sometimes you need to do spot cooling as well, or put in bigger fans to keep the equipment closer to ambient.
I think starting with a cool room is the most cost effective way though - not to mention it makes work "O.K." in August...
>> If you have cooler rooms, people from all over cubicledom will gravitate
you're right. People *do* know the servers are 72 degrees all day every day. That's why we lock our server rooms. If you do get more than 4 feet in the door and you aren't supposed to be in there, you'll get some friendly directions..
>> this is what sets OSS above/apart from The Microsoft Way
True, but I don't think it's just a Microsoft thing.
Any large software company will have red-tape out the wazoo. If you had a bright idea and wrote some spiffy new bug-fix, it would go into a repository, need to get sold in house and then reviewed & tested before going gold in a patch god-knows-how-many months later...
As much as anything I think the processes are to help management cover their asses - If it goes through a 17 step analysis and is still wrong, they've done due diligence...
>> If it's too late for that, well.. sorry about your luck.
Sometimes you don't have any choice. PHB says "I hear VB is better for programming than Excel.." Before you can get your jaw off your chest, you're committed to using VB.
About the best you can do then is write the interface in VB and do all the heavy lifting in DLLs written in C/C++. - I've actually done this before just so I could meet the requirement of "using VB for the project".
> The ONLY good thing about it is the cool form factor.
You've gotta admit the package is cool. Might not be the best comp, but I could see parking one of these on top of my "real" computer with a KVM attached.....or even better yet, mod it right into the case.
>> Economists say that the GST is actually far less destructive than the Manufacturers Sales Tax that it replaced.
The problem with the GST is one of public relations - being it replaced a tax laid against the manufacturer and then rolled into the cost of the articles produced. Everyone in Canada paid it, but did not see it......the fact that the Libs got elected in part by bad-mouthing the tax and promising to scrap it just made things worse in the public eye. particularly since they kept the tax.
Anyone remember Chretien's promise to kill the GST? The fact the Libs started this reign with a falsehood seems like symmetry right about now
parent has it bang on. nothing is dependable if you store it client-side. If you have earned the trust of your visitor, and provide something of benefit you should be able convince them to log in.
If the benefits of logging in is limited to serving ads better, don't hold your breath...
What if I don't want to blog anonymously? Perhaps I'm an attention whore looking to get on MSNBC
I think the anonymous/public dynamic is what really confuses me here
1 - If you blog anonymously and host your blog somewhere else they can't enforce compliance, making the law useless
2 - If you are a local and public, people can investigate your connections and motivations to their heart's content... making the disclosure of little use at best
Slashdot Mirror
>> Not when some moron user forgets to set an upload cap on their BitTorrent/KaZaA/Blubster/etc client
Ahh. Good point. I don't have that problem here.
You're shooting for the Funny mod, but think about it.
- The precursor to the web we're both using right now was pentagon (ARPA) funded.
>>>> What makes this router so special
>>that it provides both automatic and configurable packet prioritization,
I wonder what penalty is incurred by the packet inspection overhead? I betthings run better with a plain-jane nat router and NO filters or rules to slow things down..
>> Maybe if you'd RTFA, you'd have noticed
Oh, yeah. good luck Reading TFA - it's timed out on the second page for me...
>> $120? What makes this router so special?
ummm I'm thinking the extra $100 bucks is cuz its a 'GAMING' router. Good thing they didn't add the word 'INDUSTRIAL' or it would be an extra $2000...
Someone in marketing gets a bonus for this I bet...
>>>> With intel, I can buy a motherboard with a intel or serverworks chipsets, which is not exactly the same than a VIA/Nvidia shitty chipset that people uses with AMDs.
>>You're obviously not a gamer.
I think what DELL needs to do is start a second in-house "brand" just to build and market AMD based solutions. - When selling to business, it can be blown off as "our gamer line" and they can keep on pimping Intel... When sold to everyone else they can call it "our cost effective" line.
It would work.
O.K - I seem to be getting *lots* of responses to this post, many along the lines of "you suck as an admin".
I'll respond collectively here:
#1 Pretty much everyone who has responded has seen this as a tech problem, and it is not. It is an HR problem. When you are a well educated and well paid professional, your employer should be able to give you a wide open box and internet connection without having to police your behaviour
Further and more importantly, when someone fixes a problem for you - particularly one you keep causing, they shouldn't get "static", by which I mean foul language, smart remarks about their lack of skill or poor cooperation. What they should get is Thanks. - I'm nice to the ladies who make my lunch everyday, I'm nice to the folks that clean my office and if I need to call tech support I'm nice to them too. It doesn't cost anything to be nice..
The real problem here is employee behaviour
#2 - I work for a large company. I mean really really large. We have more people on tier one help desk than many companies employ total. I am an admin, but I am not "the" admin - we don't have one. I don't control the firewall and I'm not responsible for building workstations or setting policy on them. So yes, I do know better, but fixing it would require more politics than I care to undertake..
#3 no more troll food... Moving on, won't reply any further.
>> stop whining
Nice, constructive response. And people say techies don't have inter-personal skills. Can't imagine why.
FWIW I'm not responsible for the firewall, or setting policies on workstations.
If I was this would not be an on-going problem.
>> So at the end of the day, yeah, I've blown a saturday afternoon getting something to work under linux, but under windows I just wouldn't have got it to work at all.
I think, really the reason any of us "waste an afternoon" is because we like doing it. Maybe I'm getting older, but I seem to have less time/inclination to do it these days.
>> Sometimes, I have no choice but to give a user full Admin rights...I grind my teeth as I do so, knowing full well I'll be called to disinfect the machine of countless spyware programs within weeks, if not days.
That's where I live buddy.
We have a room full of people of varying ability who all have unlimited access because [censored p.o.s. software package] doesn't run otherwise. These guys surf a lot, clicking "yes" on every friggen dialogue box they see... literally can't go a full week without some exploit being loaded.
zero user buy-in for security - When someone shows up to remove the exploit-of-the-week for them, they get is static about "touching my machine". It pains me to be in the same room sometimes...
>> it didn't take me $1k of time to get it that way, either.
..but after RTFA, I might just give SUSE a spin.
I wish more people considered the cost of time... not trying to sound like a "windows TCO" ad, but how many times have you needed to get [pick anything here] to work and blown a whole Saturday afternoon?
I love slackware. I use it every day
>> Post secondary education is such a scam.
No kidding. All you need is a pulse and tuition. Basic literacy or work ethic optional... and I don't think profs using this software send a message to the students that says otherwise.
I would be really really stroked to have anything I wrote graded by software. - I got lots of marks I didn't agree with in college, but I could always take it up with the person who did the marking...
>> We had a case recently where a bunch of stock brokers were fired (and sued as I recall) because the sms messages they thought were safe; weren't!
Can't find a link, but I know the case AC is talking about.
The group was looking at quitting to form a company in competition with their employer. They apparently exchanged communication to this end via company supplied blackberries.... D'oh.
Can't imagine letting a group with such poor judgement handle my investments.
>> 98% of the people reading this would know the company.
ahh. You mean SCO?
>> I would say: cool the room.
I think you're right. That's the way we do it, but - (there's always a but) some cabinets still get damn hot depending on what's in the rack. Sometimes you need to do spot cooling as well, or put in bigger fans to keep the equipment closer to ambient.
I think starting with a cool room is the most cost effective way though - not to mention it makes work "O.K." in August...
>> If you have cooler rooms, people from all over cubicledom will gravitate
you're right. People *do* know the servers are 72 degrees all day every day. That's why we lock our server rooms. If you do get more than 4 feet in the door and you aren't supposed to be in there, you'll get some friendly directions..
>> ...would clash with the time my wife returns from her trip, i would not give up being with her.
;=]
That, and he might need to spend the last few hours going over the house to make sure the girlfriend didn't leave any thing for the wife to find
>> this is what sets OSS above/apart from The Microsoft Way
True, but I don't think it's just a Microsoft thing.
Any large software company will have red-tape out the wazoo. If you had a bright idea and wrote some spiffy new bug-fix, it would go into a repository, need to get sold in house and then reviewed & tested before going gold in a patch god-knows-how-many months later...
As much as anything I think the processes are to help management cover their asses - If it goes through a 17 step analysis and is still wrong, they've done due diligence...
Anyone else think of the Quasar robot?
>> If it's too late for that, well.. sorry about your luck.
Sometimes you don't have any choice. PHB says "I hear VB is better for programming than Excel.." Before you can get your jaw off your chest, you're committed to using VB.
About the best you can do then is write the interface in VB and do all the heavy lifting in DLLs written in C/C++. - I've actually done this before just so I could meet the requirement of "using VB for the project".
>> .. we shall call it... USENET!!
Fantastic. We'll get AOLers cross-posting videos of themselves saying "test" to every category
> The ONLY good thing about it is the cool form factor.
..or even better yet, mod it right into the case.
You've gotta admit the package is cool. Might not be the best comp, but I could see parking one of these on top of my "real" computer with a KVM attached...
I've spent 500 bucks on stupider things..
>> Economists say that the GST is actually far less destructive than the Manufacturers Sales Tax that it replaced.
...the fact that the Libs got elected in part by bad-mouthing the tax and promising to scrap it just made things worse in the public eye. particularly since they kept the tax.
The problem with the GST is one of public relations - being it replaced a tax laid against the manufacturer and then rolled into the cost of the articles produced. Everyone in Canada paid it, but did not see it...
Anyone remember Chretien's promise to kill the GST? The fact the Libs started this reign with a falsehood seems like symmetry right about now
parent has it bang on. nothing is dependable if you store it client-side. If you have earned the trust of your visitor, and provide something of benefit you should be able convince them to log in.
If the benefits of logging in is limited to serving ads better, don't hold your breath...
What if I don't want to blog anonymously? Perhaps I'm an attention whore looking to get on MSNBC
I think the anonymous/public dynamic is what really confuses me here
1 - If you blog anonymously and host your blog somewhere else they can't enforce compliance, making the law useless
2 - If you are a local and public, people can investigate your connections and motivations to their heart's content... making the disclosure of little use at best
where is the benefit in this law?
>> if it's whiney and useless enough, it qualifies as a blog.
Off I go to edit wikipedia's entry for 'blog'
muhahaha