I recently bought an E1000 802.11n wifi ap/router, which is ostensibly a Linksys product, but unlike other Linksys products I've used in the past, this one has the Cisco logo on it in a fairly conspicuous manner, and linksys.com now redirects you to home.cisco.com. I don't know if that's an indicator that they might be planning on phasing out the Linksys brand or not though. Probably not. I think the best parallel I can come up with would be the 'Squire' brand of musical instruments, which is produced by Fender but are basically cheap pieces of crap that they don't want to sully their main-line brand name with.
I drive a pickup truck, but actually use the pickup truck-like features. I'm not some douche-bag Manhattanite driving a Range Rover. I try to drive as little as possible. But the area I live in gets a fairly significant chuck of its electricity from a nuke plant, so that's something at least.
That's assuming all things being equal, which likely they aren't. If the pipe hadn't been broken in the very specific way it was with the BP rig, then earlier attempts would have been successful. If a cap is even needed in this case, it might require some special steps which haven't been required on the BP rig due to specific circumstances.
But between two oil rig explosions and the Chilean mine collapse, perhaps we can get closer to realizing that trying to energy out of the ground isn't exactly the best idea.
I'll just remember to pass WITH_PYTHON=NO next time I need to build the port on a new FreeBSD system. Few times I've needed to install it on a Linux machine, I didn't notice because CentOS/Fedora require Python by default for Yum.
If you're using Linux, they probably don't care about you. As for being "forced" to install QuickTime, why is Python a dependency for vim-common? Same basic principle, except it appears that the majority of Apple's image rendering is somehow tied to QuickTime libraries. Tried to view a.tiff file the other day and it it opened in QuickTime. Whatever.
Well, Turkey has prior art on a method for ethnically cleansing eastern territories during a time of war, what with their Armenian Question and all. And the Brits developed the concentration camp during the Boer War. So the Nazis were infringing on all kinds of patents.
That said, I'm an American of Irish, English and German extraction, so my ancestors all historically hate each other, and it doesn't really matter to me what goes on in the EU. I just like being contrary, especially when I'm tired.
I like how people always feel like they have to cite that India is the world's largest democracy, as if that amounts to a hill of beans. Does doing terribly stupid, ineffective, and seemingly oppressive things magically become OK just because some plurality of the people managed to strategically vote their party into a leading position? I think not. At least the Communist Party in China doesn't have to go through the indignity of lying about their intentions and motivations.
No, they just have to word it such that its vague enough to apply to anyone doing what wikileaks does, not just wikileaks. But, when will congress issue letters of Marque and Reprisal to give fuel to privateers who might attack wikileaks on the high intertubes?
Typically, it either means a non-binding resolution on something uncontroversial, such as "the senate condemns murder"... or something which is no good for anyone, like the Patriot Act, or this "kill switch" crap.
Well, work/office use is different from home use. I can get a faster cable connection cheaper than I can a T1, so why bother? We have factional T3 at work, and it does just fine, but this office location is fairly small. But yeah, as soon as you start adding on multiple VPNs and whatnot, you start chewing into bandwidth.
Different situations call for different requirements though.
Well, perhaps its just my perception of things, since where I grew up the best we could get was dial-up until I was a sophomore in college. At college on the lan, it was 10/100 switches and there was traffic shaping and QoS across the LAN, and I think we had a few T1s channel bonded together serving the whole campus. it was still faster than my dialup at home.
I still look at a 3Mb cable connection as "that's two T1s". Of course, I'm not going to get "line-rate" on cable, but the 10Mbit cable connection I pay for at my apartment now reliably gets me a few channel-bonded T1s worth of data rate, and I'm not paying several thousand dollars a month for that.
If I could get Gbit fiber to the curb, I'm not sure I'd really know what to do with all that bandwidth. It would probably be wasted on me. But I don't sit on game servers while trying to torrent shit all day, either. I basically do the same stuff I always did, only faster. I guess the problem is the perception from the folks for whom "the same stuff" started after broadband became more wide-spread and for whom "always on" was the norm. I got the impression early on that if I wanted "really good" service, I was going to have to pay a premium (like ISDN, for example, or serial leased lines at the higher end).
A lot of this does just seem to be cop-out reasons to avoid upgrading infrastructure though. But my original point is, AS X shouldn't have to swap peer with AS Y if they don't want to, and its perfectly reasonable to demand a transit fee and agree to provide a more favorable route metric and/or traffic prioritization/shaping for a higher transit fee.
Maybe I just don't get net neutrality and what's being argued for, but how would it no affect how peering contracts are worked out, how QoS can be implemented, etc? All this "routing around damage" stuff people talk about seems to stop fairly swiftly at the border, where policy is used to determine where data goes, and not metrics.
No, we had to reboot. It was a fairly well-known web hosting company... I won't really say any more than that, but I'm on hiatus from web hosting for a while. Working in a more serious industry now.
OK, you see how all of those things still lead to doing a reboot? Now, imagine automating the process AND using ksplice. And I agree that automating the process would have been super awesome, but unfortunately that's just the sort of design process and forethought which was shunned at the place I worked at that time. So I left.
When you have around 1500 production servers to patch, such as with the memmap 0 bug last year, doing them one-by-one, or even in small batches, remotely over IP KVM takes a long-ass time. This is nice for those types of situations.
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Yeah, but it comes out of the ground in Utah, and no one cares about Mormons anyway. ;-)
I recently bought an E1000 802.11n wifi ap/router, which is ostensibly a Linksys product, but unlike other Linksys products I've used in the past, this one has the Cisco logo on it in a fairly conspicuous manner, and linksys.com now redirects you to home.cisco.com. I don't know if that's an indicator that they might be planning on phasing out the Linksys brand or not though. Probably not. I think the best parallel I can come up with would be the 'Squire' brand of musical instruments, which is produced by Fender but are basically cheap pieces of crap that they don't want to sully their main-line brand name with.
I drive a pickup truck, but actually use the pickup truck-like features. I'm not some douche-bag Manhattanite driving a Range Rover. I try to drive as little as possible. But the area I live in gets a fairly significant chuck of its electricity from a nuke plant, so that's something at least.
That's assuming all things being equal, which likely they aren't. If the pipe hadn't been broken in the very specific way it was with the BP rig, then earlier attempts would have been successful. If a cap is even needed in this case, it might require some special steps which haven't been required on the BP rig due to specific circumstances.
But between two oil rig explosions and the Chilean mine collapse, perhaps we can get closer to realizing that trying to energy out of the ground isn't exactly the best idea.
Well, it shows tangible steps towards the possibility of jury tampering, which is a Big Boy Crime.
I'll just remember to pass WITH_PYTHON=NO next time I need to build the port on a new FreeBSD system. Few times I've needed to install it on a Linux machine, I didn't notice because CentOS/Fedora require Python by default for Yum.
If you're using Linux, they probably don't care about you. As for being "forced" to install QuickTime, why is Python a dependency for vim-common? Same basic principle, except it appears that the majority of Apple's image rendering is somehow tied to QuickTime libraries. Tried to view a .tiff file the other day and it it opened in QuickTime. Whatever.
No, apparently creation goes up to around 6,000 years ago and then that is where "being" begins, I guess.
Well, Turkey has prior art on a method for ethnically cleansing eastern territories during a time of war, what with their Armenian Question and all. And the Brits developed the concentration camp during the Boer War. So the Nazis were infringing on all kinds of patents.
That said, I'm an American of Irish, English and German extraction, so my ancestors all historically hate each other, and it doesn't really matter to me what goes on in the EU. I just like being contrary, especially when I'm tired.
I like how people always feel like they have to cite that India is the world's largest democracy, as if that amounts to a hill of beans. Does doing terribly stupid, ineffective, and seemingly oppressive things magically become OK just because some plurality of the people managed to strategically vote their party into a leading position? I think not. At least the Communist Party in China doesn't have to go through the indignity of lying about their intentions and motivations.
A Turk living in Germany is a German in the same way that a Dane living in Greenland is an Eskimo.
No, they just have to word it such that its vague enough to apply to anyone doing what wikileaks does, not just wikileaks. But, when will congress issue letters of Marque and Reprisal to give fuel to privateers who might attack wikileaks on the high intertubes?
Typically, it either means a non-binding resolution on something uncontroversial, such as "the senate condemns murder"... or something which is no good for anyone, like the Patriot Act, or this "kill switch" crap.
Well, work/office use is different from home use. I can get a faster cable connection cheaper than I can a T1, so why bother? We have factional T3 at work, and it does just fine, but this office location is fairly small. But yeah, as soon as you start adding on multiple VPNs and whatnot, you start chewing into bandwidth.
Different situations call for different requirements though.
No, we'll probably just go back to regulating crypto export and keep all the good stuff for ourselves.
Well, perhaps its just my perception of things, since where I grew up the best we could get was dial-up until I was a sophomore in college. At college on the lan, it was 10/100 switches and there was traffic shaping and QoS across the LAN, and I think we had a few T1s channel bonded together serving the whole campus. it was still faster than my dialup at home.
I still look at a 3Mb cable connection as "that's two T1s". Of course, I'm not going to get "line-rate" on cable, but the 10Mbit cable connection I pay for at my apartment now reliably gets me a few channel-bonded T1s worth of data rate, and I'm not paying several thousand dollars a month for that.
If I could get Gbit fiber to the curb, I'm not sure I'd really know what to do with all that bandwidth. It would probably be wasted on me. But I don't sit on game servers while trying to torrent shit all day, either. I basically do the same stuff I always did, only faster. I guess the problem is the perception from the folks for whom "the same stuff" started after broadband became more wide-spread and for whom "always on" was the norm. I got the impression early on that if I wanted "really good" service, I was going to have to pay a premium (like ISDN, for example, or serial leased lines at the higher end).
A lot of this does just seem to be cop-out reasons to avoid upgrading infrastructure though. But my original point is, AS X shouldn't have to swap peer with AS Y if they don't want to, and its perfectly reasonable to demand a transit fee and agree to provide a more favorable route metric and/or traffic prioritization/shaping for a higher transit fee.
Maybe I just don't get net neutrality and what's being argued for, but how would it no affect how peering contracts are worked out, how QoS can be implemented, etc? All this "routing around damage" stuff people talk about seems to stop fairly swiftly at the border, where policy is used to determine where data goes, and not metrics.
Or in lyrics by The Clash "indecision me molesta!" There, being Spanish, but with the same Latin roots that basically mean "to bother or harass."
Did you seriously remember the commercial jingle for that game, or did you have to look it up? Either way, well played, sir.
No, we had to reboot. It was a fairly well-known web hosting company... I won't really say any more than that, but I'm on hiatus from web hosting for a while. Working in a more serious industry now.
OK, you see how all of those things still lead to doing a reboot? Now, imagine automating the process AND using ksplice. And I agree that automating the process would have been super awesome, but unfortunately that's just the sort of design process and forethought which was shunned at the place I worked at that time. So I left.
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When you have around 1500 production servers to patch, such as with the memmap 0 bug last year, doing them one-by-one, or even in small batches, remotely over IP KVM takes a long-ass time. This is nice for those types of situations.
The mistake of letting users interact with them. Users are the number one security flaw in any system.
Because the article author has an iPhone and wants to feel (even) better about himself?