But since the typical enterprise ip phone deployment uses rfc1918 address space and the only place a public ip might be required is on the voice gateway your point about needing to buy more ip addresses is irrelevant anyhow.
I had a situation where we had token ring, ethernet and voice all in the same patch frame once. Rather than getting huge supplies of different coloured cables in lots of different lengths myself and a colleague just got some large packs of very small cable ties in a variety of colours and would then just put a little coloured collar around each end of the cable in the frame to indicate the type of data it was carrying.
If you don't have the budget for an every port live situation or you have an environment where you have multiple use frames then the cable management bars between each pair of panels and switches are the best way I've encountered along with decent space for cables at the side of the cabinets [ie don't use 600x800 or 600x1000 cabs, or any other depth for that matter, always go for 800x versions so you have room at the sides.
Another situation I had to deal with was where we had multiple frames between end points in a data centre [don't ask - bad design!] and lots of glass to glass fibre patching. What we did was put a label tag on each end of the cable, on one side was the ultimate source/destination patch points and the other side was the source/destination points in the local cabinet so we could easily trace a cable through the mess of patching without manually tracing each cable.
Ultimately though in 20 years now I've not found a really good way to make patch frames that get used on a regular basis look tidy except making sure the entire building uses ethernet for just about everything from telephony to the building management and getting the budget to make every single data point live [and introduce lots of redundancy] and then mounting the switches between the patch panels and using tiny 20cm patch leads to plug every single port into it's neighouring patch port.
There's grey and there is grey. As you've already noted a lot of grey market Cisco in the UK channel comes from within the UK or frequently from within Europe. The common market means that if you can get it cheap within one part of the EU you can sell it in another and because of Ciscos channel setup you can frequently exploit promotions or pricing differences to make good money and failing that there is the good old purchase a bulk load of kit at a heavy discount and sell it on piecemeal approach that you describe. Then there is the grey stuff that comes from outside of the EU, typically China, that will quite often be counterfeit. Cisco, however, lumps all this together and calls it grey - probably to try and scare people into buying from channel.
The SFPs, GBICs etc are a somewhat different story. All these devices actually conform to a standard - the Multi Source Agreement, or MSA, - that was agreed between companies to simplify production etc. However Cisco [and HP for that matter] deliberately chose to check the specific details of the SFP in it's firmware [like serial number/mac address etc] to make sure it is one of theirs and to reject any generic ones - thus breaking the compatibility agreement. As a result there is a huge markup on optical transceivers for Cisco switches and why you can make silly money selling those compatibles that are made in the same factories from the same parts and all they have done is change the firmware to report the appropriate numbers. But since, in my understanding, you can't copyright/patent a number in this context, so long as these devices are not labelled with Ciscos branding there is little they can do to stop it except issuing scare stories about how they invalidate your warranty/will blow up your switch etc.
I'd tend to agree. In my experience I've found that a class of players will want to constantly grind and level up and a number of people will then portray that as the only way to play the game and highlight it as a disadvantage. I think it's a human nature thing - some people will always want to have bigger numbers of some arbitrary metric than the people around them.
Where some MUDs were, and still are, undoubtedly grindfests others have been built with variety and provide many ways to play them. I like to think my particular MUD (Discworld FWIW) does but I know there are a lot of people that would disagree. I think that ultimately a lot of peoples dissastisfaction with social networking games, muds, or any other game is that for most people the game will eventually get boring and that's when it's time to walk away rather than bitch about what's wrong with it that makes it boring. Even great open ended games like elite got boring for most people and games like chess or go get boring after a while for most people but some others will always take it on furthur and furthur.
In the sense that they are a fun diversion then social networking click games are a fun diversion, just like MUDs, but when they are done to excess they take on that grind element so the rule would be, when it becomes a grind rather than fun you're probably spending too much time doing it!
Sadly yet another article that talks about collossus and seems to give all the credit to Alan Turing without mentioning the contribution of Tommy Flowers:(
Actually it appears to be Lambda switching/Optical Cross connects. Lucent sell similar gear and I think the tech was invented at Bell Labs back in the 90s.
Essentially you're switching the path to destination based on it's optical components rather than the encapsulated data - so you pick the destination node(s) by selecting the appropriate colour(s) on a tunable laser and blast the data out effectively switching the data at the optical level without decoding it to electrical signals.
It's very fast and very expensive so I'm not sure it really has a cost/benefit equation right now over using traditional kit with a passive DWDM solution for example.
The published figure is approx 700 MHz of satellite bandwidth availible in total. The bandwidth of the individual trunks are subject to classificiation under the official secrets act. I actually worked on skynet5 and the list of bits of information that is classified is ridiculous but I can say that it's nowhere near as much bandwidth as you might think.
I believe the issue is not so much the film maker but the film distributor.
Small independent film makers and the like rely on big distribution companies [generally an arm of one of the big studios] to distribute their material worldwide and then these people insist on region coding so that they can then control the distribution of said work, the small film maker simply does not have the network capable of handling the distribution. If that large distributor then decides that they're not going to release the movie in region whatever the film make is stuck with that.
Theres probably an opportunity for a large region 0 distributor to step in but anyone who did that for anything toehr than adult material is likely to annoy the MPAA in some way and thus become subject to the legal machinations.
Hmm... if it's half-and-half, though... maybe they are the one. Didn't AOL pick up a big pile of modem banks and other ISP toys when they bought out Compuserve a few years back?
No - they sold them all to Worldcom:) The deal was that AOL network services and Compuserve network services were farmed off to Worldcom and AOL took the compuserve client base and customer systems.
As far as meeting this requirements go - I can think of a few European Telcos who have ISP operations that could meet the requirements through the ownership of subsidary operations across europe, BT probably, France Telecom as well. I know Energis have operations in several european countries. So theres probably a few out there.
99.5% is waay out. population of us is 250 million thereabouts and canada is around 30 million, population of UK is approx 60 million, France around 85 million and Germany and the rest of europe easily takes us up to similar population levels. Toss in Japan and the antipodean regions for good measure if you like. The majority of the European DVD buying market are aware of the region encoding and the pain it the arse it is to them so assuming that the DVD buying percentage of the population is similar in both the US and europe that would mean that at least 50% of the DVD buying public worldwide are in fact aware of the region coding and bothered by it.
Under UK law at least it is perfectly legal to name the company after the owner in the case of a Sole trader&owner company.
For example there are many McDonalds businesses in scotland in a variety of trades, and the fast food chain tried to issue quite a lot of cease and desist letters, it was their mistake in the end tho cause they ended up getting attacked by Lord MacDonald, Chief of the Clan McDonald who probably have a prior claim to the name:)
Actually it's completely the same basis. The original US legal system was based on the English Common Law as brought over with the original settlers. Many things have changed since then, notably the written constitution that the US has, to the point where the systems are fairly different in operation. However the original basis for the two systems were the same.
Only in the US do football players wear pads:-). But then, leave it to the US to call a game where the ball is primarily handled with the hands football.
What, like Rugby Football, Australian Rules Football and Gaelic Football then ?
Unfortunately we started that particular trend long before the Americans did.
I've been through similar schemes at differing employers. When I was on an overtime Grade I simply got paid overtime at 1.5* for each hour I was onsite or if the callout lasted longer than 30 minutes.
The I was on a non overtime grade and so instead got paid £40 [uk money] for each night I was on call plus time off in lieu of any hours spent onsite in the middle of the night.
Currently My arrangements are £250 per week for being oncall and then a minimum of 3 hours overtime for being called out, This is also only for major faults - router or switch failures, Line failures, that kind of thing.
I don't think I'd sign a contract where they expected me to cover oncall for no remuneration.
Well, probably for lots of good reasons. We in the modern world seem to have trundled down the path of "one OS can fulfill all our needs" [which ironically is the microsoft mantra as well] when really to get the absolute best out of a system you need to use an OS optimised for the job.
Netware brings with it rock solid File and Print server capablities - far beyond what Linux or NT currently offer. As a fileserver I still believe that you can't get a better product than Netware. Then there's NDS which is a great tool for maintaing complex security on a large network and thats also had years of testing. IMHO implementing these features in a specialised open source OS is great as it then gives us a choice, MANOS for the file and print, linux on the desktops and DB servers and *BSD where a blindingly fast web/ftp/intranet server is required etc. That way we get the best of every aspect without a single OS become a jack of all trades and master of none [essentially the trap I believe MS have fallen into]
There are more of them now, MANY more potential players, all having faster network access, and yet the number of players per mud have dropped.
Y'know, I would be almost inclined to agree and I have said almost the same thing in the past but I can't refute the evidence of my own observation.
Whilst a lot of MUDS playerbase is declining the one which I admin on has a new user count that is increasing almost on a daily basis. Of course, I'm pretty sure that that is largely because being Discworld we leech of the popularity of TPs books somewhat, but the people stay which basically leads me to believe that it's not actually that muds are dying in popularity, just that people aren't being drawn to them anymore [since most internet users these days seem to not even know what telnet is or that there is life beyond the web browser] but that once you've got the buggers hooked then the Mud genre is as popular as ever.
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Simple answer is yes.
But since the typical enterprise ip phone deployment uses rfc1918 address space and the only place a public ip might be required is on the voice gateway your point about needing to buy more ip addresses is irrelevant anyhow.
I had a situation where we had token ring, ethernet and voice all in the same patch frame once. Rather than getting huge supplies of different coloured cables in lots of different lengths myself and a colleague just got some large packs of very small cable ties in a variety of colours and would then just put a little coloured collar around each end of the cable in the frame to indicate the type of data it was carrying.
If you don't have the budget for an every port live situation or you have an environment where you have multiple use frames then the cable management bars between each pair of panels and switches are the best way I've encountered along with decent space for cables at the side of the cabinets [ie don't use 600x800 or 600x1000 cabs, or any other depth for that matter, always go for 800x versions so you have room at the sides.
Another situation I had to deal with was where we had multiple frames between end points in a data centre [don't ask - bad design!] and lots of glass to glass fibre patching. What we did was put a label tag on each end of the cable, on one side was the ultimate source/destination patch points and the other side was the source/destination points in the local cabinet so we could easily trace a cable through the mess of patching without manually tracing each cable.
Ultimately though in 20 years now I've not found a really good way to make patch frames that get used on a regular basis look tidy except making sure the entire building uses ethernet for just about everything from telephony to the building management and getting the budget to make every single data point live [and introduce lots of redundancy] and then mounting the switches between the patch panels and using tiny 20cm patch leads to plug every single port into it's neighouring patch port.
There's grey and there is grey. As you've already noted a lot of grey market Cisco in the UK channel comes from within the UK or frequently from within Europe. The common market means that if you can get it cheap within one part of the EU you can sell it in another and because of Ciscos channel setup you can frequently exploit promotions or pricing differences to make good money and failing that there is the good old purchase a bulk load of kit at a heavy discount and sell it on piecemeal approach that you describe. Then there is the grey stuff that comes from outside of the EU, typically China, that will quite often be counterfeit. Cisco, however, lumps all this together and calls it grey - probably to try and scare people into buying from channel.
The SFPs, GBICs etc are a somewhat different story. All these devices actually conform to a standard - the Multi Source Agreement, or MSA, - that was agreed between companies to simplify production etc. However Cisco [and HP for that matter] deliberately chose to check the specific details of the SFP in it's firmware [like serial number/mac address etc] to make sure it is one of theirs and to reject any generic ones - thus breaking the compatibility agreement. As a result there is a huge markup on optical transceivers for Cisco switches and why you can make silly money selling those compatibles that are made in the same factories from the same parts and all they have done is change the firmware to report the appropriate numbers. But since, in my understanding, you can't copyright/patent a number in this context, so long as these devices are not labelled with Ciscos branding there is little they can do to stop it except issuing scare stories about how they invalidate your warranty/will blow up your switch etc.
I'd tend to agree. In my experience I've found that a class of players will want to constantly grind and level up and a number of people will then portray that as the only way to play the game and highlight it as a disadvantage. I think it's a human nature thing - some people will always want to have bigger numbers of some arbitrary metric than the people around them.
Where some MUDs were, and still are, undoubtedly grindfests others have been built with variety and provide many ways to play them. I like to think my particular MUD (Discworld FWIW) does but I know there are a lot of people that would disagree. I think that ultimately a lot of peoples dissastisfaction with social networking games, muds, or any other game is that for most people the game will eventually get boring and that's when it's time to walk away rather than bitch about what's wrong with it that makes it boring. Even great open ended games like elite got boring for most people and games like chess or go get boring after a while for most people but some others will always take it on furthur and furthur.
In the sense that they are a fun diversion then social networking click games are a fun diversion, just like MUDs, but when they are done to excess they take on that grind element so the rule would be, when it becomes a grind rather than fun you're probably spending too much time doing it!
J
Sadly yet another article that talks about collossus and seems to give all the credit to Alan Turing without mentioning the contribution of Tommy Flowers :(
It has been. The Nokia N900 is basically that - although Nokia have now abandonded it to the wind it's still an immensely usable device.
As a westcountryman I don't know how anyone can drink Bulmers - Give me a Thatchers and keep it coming!
Definately agree with you on the storage in a pint bottle however.
Actually they did a release of the special editions a number of years back that had the original theatrical prints
IT's still available from some places such as http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Episode-IV-Widescreen/dp/B000FQJAIW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1281865521&sr=8-1
J
Zyxel do quite an easy to use one
http://www.zyxel.co.uk/web/product_family_detail.php?PC1indexflag=20040520161256&CategoryGroupNo=4E14C850-478D-4204-8C85-2994C9552426
but it's still going to be quite a few hundreds of dollars and with the margins etc on coffee that could take quite some time to recoup.
I'm having flashbacks to playing Starglider! Recharging via powerlines was one of the hardest things I found to do.
J
Actually it appears to be Lambda switching/Optical Cross connects. Lucent sell similar gear and I think the tech was invented at Bell Labs back in the 90s.
Essentially you're switching the path to destination based on it's optical components rather than the encapsulated data - so you pick the destination node(s) by selecting the appropriate colour(s) on a tunable laser and blast the data out effectively switching the data at the optical level without decoding it to electrical signals.
It's very fast and very expensive so I'm not sure it really has a cost/benefit equation right now over using traditional kit with a passive DWDM solution for example.
J
The published figure is approx 700 MHz of satellite bandwidth availible in total. The bandwidth of the individual trunks are subject to classificiation under the official secrets act. I actually worked on skynet5 and the list of bits of information that is classified is ridiculous but I can say that it's nowhere near as much bandwidth as you might think.
J
They can do that already using good old Copyright law no need for patents to license software.
Patents would allow them to stop other manufacturers from duplicating the processes at all which is why they want them of course.
Small independent film makers and the like rely on big distribution companies [generally an arm of one of the big studios] to distribute their material worldwide and then these people insist on region coding so that they can then control the distribution of said work, the small film maker simply does not have the network capable of handling the distribution. If that large distributor then decides that they're not going to release the movie in region whatever the film make is stuck with that.
Theres probably an opportunity for a large region 0 distributor to step in but anyone who did that for anything toehr than adult material is likely to annoy the MPAA in some way and thus become subject to the legal machinations.
J
Ever hear of Multicast IP, it uses 224.0.0.0 up to 239.255.255.255
J
No - they sold them all to Worldcom :) The deal was that AOL network services and Compuserve network services were farmed off to Worldcom and AOL took the compuserve client base and customer systems.
As far as meeting this requirements go - I can think of a few European Telcos who have ISP operations that could meet the requirements through the ownership of subsidary operations across europe, BT probably, France Telecom as well. I know Energis have operations in several european countries. So theres probably a few out there.
Hardly .5%
J
For example there are many McDonalds businesses in scotland in a variety of trades, and the fast food chain tried to issue quite a lot of cease and desist letters, it was their mistake in the end tho cause they ended up getting attacked by Lord MacDonald, Chief of the Clan McDonald who probably have a prior claim to the name :)
Well Mr Torvalds is Finnish so I ahve no idea where that swede is living.
J
What, like Rugby Football, Australian Rules Football and Gaelic Football then ?
Unfortunately we started that particular trend long before the Americans did.
J
The I was on a non overtime grade and so instead got paid £40 [uk money] for each night I was on call plus time off in lieu of any hours spent onsite in the middle of the night.
Currently My arrangements are £250 per week for being oncall and then a minimum of 3 hours overtime for being called out, This is also only for major faults - router or switch failures, Line failures, that kind of thing.
I don't think I'd sign a contract where they expected me to cover oncall for no remuneration.
J
J
Well, probably for lots of good reasons. We in the modern world seem to have trundled down the path of "one OS can fulfill all our needs" [which ironically is the microsoft mantra as well] when really to get the absolute best out of a system you need to use an OS optimised for the job.
Netware brings with it rock solid File and Print server capablities - far beyond what Linux or NT currently offer. As a fileserver I still believe that you can't get a better product than Netware. Then there's NDS which is a great tool for maintaing complex security on a large network and thats also had years of testing. IMHO implementing these features in a specialised open source OS is great as it then gives us a choice, MANOS for the file and print, linux on the desktops and DB servers and *BSD where a blindingly fast web/ftp/intranet server is required etc. That way we get the best of every aspect without a single OS become a jack of all trades and master of none [essentially the trap I believe MS have fallen into]
J
Y'know, I would be almost inclined to agree and I have said almost the same thing in the past but I can't refute the evidence of my own observation.
Whilst a lot of MUDS playerbase is declining the one which I admin on has a new user count that is increasing almost on a daily basis. Of course, I'm pretty sure that that is largely because being Discworld we leech of the popularity of TPs books somewhat, but the people stay which basically leads me to believe that it's not actually that muds are dying in popularity, just that people aren't being drawn to them anymore [since most internet users these days seem to not even know what telnet is or that there is life beyond the web browser] but that once you've got the buggers hooked then the Mud genre is as popular as ever.
J