Are you sure the problem was just the bad compact flash that Cisco received from another manufacturer? The solutions was the RMA the flash, not the NPE. Xmodem is a little slow considering how large IOS images have gotten, but you can TFTP boot the router, did you try that? Most engineers I run into that bitch and moan about Cisco simply don't know how to configure things correctly.
Sounds like you got bad TAC advice. Which is a shame because I seem to get better support from the Australian TAC than even San Jose.
"However, on October 29, 2003, two soldiers were killed and a third wounded when their tank was disabled by an anti-tank mine, which may have been combined with other explosives to increase its effect. This marked the first time deaths resulted from a hostile-fire assault on the M1 tank.
On November 27, 2004 an Abrams tank was badly damaged and its driver killed from shrapnel wounds when an extremely powerful improvised explosive device (IED) consisting of three M109A6 155 mm shells with a total explosive weight of 34.5 kg detonated next to the tank. The other three crew members were able to escape, a testament to the armor of the M1A2."
Not the same incidents as above but illustrates the amount of explosives needed for such IEDs. Again none of these reports indicate whether the hatches were open or closed.
Cisco doesn't use plain text passwords for CCO. They use RADIUS authentication, more than likely back to their CNS product. The question is, if those passwords were stored in a database on a *nix server behind the firewall what exactly got comprimised here?
Cisco routers run on IOS which does in fact have many unix-like commands. It also sports EMACS key shortcuts on the command line. Considering Cisco was founded by a couple of Stanford computer scientists in 1984, the similarities are not surprising. Why reinvent the wheel when you already have a wheel which keeps time by counting the seconds since 1/1/1970? That kind of thing just makes sense to guys that know that ^A jumps to the beginning of a line.
The idea that IOS is some flavor of *nix under the hood makes some sense, but just isn't true. In fact, the Cisco engineer who wrote much of the early IOS CLI code has stated this publicly (he also not surprisingly admits to being a big fan of Unix). The idea that IOS is Linux in disguise is simply preposterous. IOS was written in the late 1980's and Linus unveiled Linux in 1991.
I doubt very much that Cisco feels that Linux is insecure or unstable. Cisco has recently moved much of the development of their software products over to Linux. By the end of the year you are going to start to see most of their software running on Linux and it's my understanding that Linux development now has the top seat. Meaning you will see new versions released on Linux first and then ported to Windows and/or Solaris.
Methinks you need relearn WWII history. France was crying and moaning about Germany for over a year before WWII officially started, protesting the rest of Europe's appeasement strategy. That they were ultimately right didn't stop them from throwing rose petals at the feet of German troops. Wait, wasn't that supposed to happen with American troops somewhere recently?
It all makes sense if you read the post correctly.
According to the author of the post (although not according to Duchovny himself) this is all past tense. They were going to make a sequel, but apparently not anymore.
NEWSFLASH: 'Were' is not the same as 'We're'. The two words have totally different meanings. Christ... learn English. We're geeks, not morons.
If you really care about this issue and I'm sure many of you do, please head on over to the EFF Action Center at www.eff.org. After a quick registration (tinfoil hats need not apply) you can pick a topic you care about and have the EFF automatically generate an email, letter, or fax to the representative and/or senator that is appropriate to you. Or customize the message if you wish. Either way, it only takes a few clicks.
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Sounds like you got bad TAC advice. Which is a shame because I seem to get better support from the Australian TAC than even San Jose.
Cisco doesn't use plain text passwords for CCO. They use RADIUS authentication, more than likely back to their CNS product. The question is, if those passwords were stored in a database on a *nix server behind the firewall what exactly got comprimised here?
The idea that IOS is some flavor of *nix under the hood makes some sense, but just isn't true. In fact, the Cisco engineer who wrote much of the early IOS CLI code has stated this publicly (he also not surprisingly admits to being a big fan of Unix). The idea that IOS is Linux in disguise is simply preposterous. IOS was written in the late 1980's and Linus unveiled Linux in 1991.
I doubt very much that Cisco feels that Linux is insecure or unstable. Cisco has recently moved much of the development of their software products over to Linux. By the end of the year you are going to start to see most of their software running on Linux and it's my understanding that Linux development now has the top seat. Meaning you will see new versions released on Linux first and then ported to Windows and/or Solaris.
Methinks you need relearn WWII history. France was crying and moaning about Germany for over a year before WWII officially started, protesting the rest of Europe's appeasement strategy. That they were ultimately right didn't stop them from throwing rose petals at the feet of German troops. Wait, wasn't that supposed to happen with American troops somewhere recently?
At least ST:TNG tried to explain the predominance of bipedal human-like races. It was an episode called The Chase, I believe.
NEWSFLASH: 'Were' is not the same as 'We're'. The two words have totally different meanings. Christ... learn English. We're geeks, not morons.
I love it, it allows me to be politically active and relatively lazy at the same time.