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Covad is pretty much the last national data CLEC. New Edge Networks is still around but has a much smaller footprint.
Covad is expecting to go into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection shortly, but the corporate line here is that it's for debt restructuring and continued survivability rather than liquidation.
I'm skeptical, personally. I give 70/30 odds against coming out of bankruptcy alive a year from now.
The article mentions that the device is shipped with a anti-static bag and wrist strap because it's sensitive to ESD damage.
If that's the case, then what good is this in most embedded applications? I think embedded system and I think of a controller for a sorting belt on a warehouse floor or some sort of remote collection device. You need a semi-hardened system for that sort of situation.
Still, it's cute, and I really like the fact that it includes a 10Mbit NIC.
I dunno about you, but if I were a member of an indigenous people which had been decimated in the past couple of centuries by various effects of European contact, I'm not sure I'd want some Danish toy company commodifying my identity either.
AP Wire Report - Unnamed sources within the White House have revealed that Jon Katz has no understanding of the concept of irony.
Sources also indicated that Katz's forthcoming stories will detail why South Park is disgusting, and that Tom Green's sarcasm is simply not appropriate in public discourse.
Janeane Garofalo declined to comment. The MST3K Group of Independant States is expected to hold a press conference Monday morning. Denis Leary's comments were not printable in this family weblog.
This is just a side thought - does it surprise anyone that the most prosperous nation on earth has the hardest workers? Just an idea.
How Calvinist of you.
The US is the most prosperous nation on earth because we've got an abundance of natural resources, a growing population, and we're not afraid to exploit either one.
The US is the most prosperous nation right now. We certainly weren't always so, and likely we won't always be. It's a matter of historical accident, not the fact that our workers are over-worked. Many studies have shown that productivity actually increases with shorter work-weeks. Diminishing returns.
Meanwhile, places like Extreme offer more GigE ports than you could ever imagine using and at a much more reasonable price. Cisco has a stronghold on the market indeed.
I've worked with Extreme's switches. They're good. Simple, WICKED fast, and more cost-effective than Cisco.
My only beef is that if you want to use them as core routers, you've got to be running Ethernet. No ATM interfaces. No T1 interfaces, no DS3 intercaces, no OC3/12/96 interfaces. So you've still got to hang other vendors' boxes off the mess and you risk vendors fingerpointing when something chokes.
It's kind of a catch-22. Cisco's mature, but almost too much so, which all sorts of useless legacy equipment in their product line that they have to support and legacy code in the IOS kernel. Extreme needs to become more mature, I kind of feel their software needs some fleshing out yet and they need to add some components to their product line.
I love that crazy fast backplane on the BlackDiamonds, but for chrissake can't we do something about the purple and green color scheme?
Most routers contain only motorola 68k processors which seems absurd for the price that routers go for.
Actually, I'm pretty sure that Cisco's 2500-series routers to have m68k processors. 68030, I believe. Everything never has a PowerPC variant. Dunno about Juniper, but I'm going to guess they're running a RISC processor of some sort.
The hardware issue was another factor covered by NANOG this morning in response to this article. The long and the short of is that throwing hardware at a problem might get you through the day, but good planning and forethought will bring you through a lot more cleanly.
With any router manufacturer, your value-added is never the hardware but rather the software (i.e. Cisco's IOS) and the service. Sure, you could grab a PII and run GNU Zebra for your BGP peering, but the CCO is a great resource to have when troubleshooting. Puts MS's TechNotes system to shame. It WORKS. Plus, working in downtown Chicago I know that if my 7200 takes a dive, Cisco's got a parts depot blocks away where I can get parts.
Hotline and Carracho are two systems that would probably be most similar to Freenet.
I'm wondering - how much surveillance takes place on these networks? I would expect more takes place on Hotline than Carracho as it's mac-only.
Several admins put "spider traps" on sites to foil scans of the directory structure. Not sure how effective that strategy is, as they're usually just recursive folder loops.
Does anybody remember last year's/. story about the group of Spammers/Telemarketers that got burned by some guy who was Mad As Hell and Not Going to Take it Anymore?
The guy did a little investigation of the business and ended up cracking their network, and coming up with all kinds of compromising material like contact info and n00dz. I think the company was in Tennesee or thereabouts.
It was either brilliant pranksterism, an elaborate hoax, or a disgruntled ex employee/boyfriend. Never was quite sure which.
I did a quick search of the archives and didn't find the story. I'd be real interested in knowing what the aftermath of that story was.
What is this, a Wired magazine think piece from 1994?
Repeat after me... "The Internet was coopted by the megacorps with the.com gold rush. This is not a decentralized anti-heirarchical insurgency. You're being duped if you think your broadband AT&T connection is going to topple the current regime."
"We got notebooks, what good are notebooks, they won't help me survive."
Ha! Good point. That's why I know how to shoot and fix a truck. I like to prepare for multiple contingencies. Just in case it gets crazy Road Warrior-style.
But think about it the other way... what good are bombs if there's nanotech that will tear your attack apart in mid-air? Interesting times we live in, no telling what the future might hold.
The term pretty much sums it up for freedom in an undergrad environment.
In Loco Parentis - the University/College sees itself as the local guardian of the student, physically, spiritually, and intellectually. While certainly outdated, this still holds true in an alarming number of academic institutions.
Once you're in grad school, the line blurs a little, but as long as this stance is maintained by institutions there will be no freedom.
People have been fighting this battle for years, fromt he Port Huron Statement to the Free Speech Movement to the teach-ins in the 60s. They made inroads, but basically makes their money from keeping students out of trouble and off the job markets for four or five years. The paternalistic attitude is not shocking.
Please, there's no need for such mysogynistic language if you don't want to be written off as a troll.
First, the word "Kairetsu" doesn't translate to "conglomorate". The word roughly means "low-revenue startup business". There is NO FUCKING WAY GE would be considered a Kairetsu. VA Linux is even too big to be a Kairetsu.
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Covad is pretty much the last national data CLEC. New Edge Networks is still around but has a much smaller footprint.
Covad is expecting to go into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection shortly, but the corporate line here is that it's for debt restructuring and continued survivability rather than liquidation.
I'm skeptical, personally. I give 70/30 odds against coming out of bankruptcy alive a year from now.
Unnamed witnesses spoke of seeing author Stephen King dressed as a hayseed and approaching the object one it landed.
Witnesses heard Mr. King exclaim "Meteor shit!" at which point he smabled back to his shotgun shack muttering abuot "washing it off."
Mr. King was later unable to be found for comment. However, his shack did appear to be very well-stocked with houseplants and lush flora.
The article mentions that the device is shipped with a anti-static bag and wrist strap because it's sensitive to ESD damage.
If that's the case, then what good is this in most embedded applications? I think embedded system and I think of a controller for a sorting belt on a warehouse floor or some sort of remote collection device. You need a semi-hardened system for that sort of situation.
Still, it's cute, and I really like the fact that it includes a 10Mbit NIC.
-carl
Well, Sun sells a UltraSPARCIII 1U server for $999...
-carl
...at least until a vinyl-eating super-fungus makes landfall.
-carl
I dunno about you, but if I were a member of an indigenous people which had been decimated in the past couple of centuries by various effects of European contact, I'm not sure I'd want some Danish toy company commodifying my identity either.
-carl
I would be willing to put up some serious prize money.
-carl
VA Linux Japan quietly started "Slashdot Japan!
I can't read your crazy moon language!
love,
-carl
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http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,200
With things like this going on in India, I'd say drastic measures are called for indeed.
-carl
AP Wire Report -
Unnamed sources within the White House have revealed that Jon Katz has no understanding of the concept of irony.
Sources also indicated that Katz's forthcoming stories will detail why South Park is disgusting, and that Tom Green's sarcasm is simply not appropriate in public discourse.
Janeane Garofalo declined to comment. The MST3K Group of Independant States is expected to hold a press conference Monday morning. Denis Leary's comments were not printable in this family weblog.
-carl
This is just a side thought - does it surprise anyone that the most prosperous nation on earth has the hardest workers? Just an idea.
How Calvinist of you.
The US is the most prosperous nation on earth because we've got an abundance of natural resources, a growing population, and we're not afraid to exploit either one.
The US is the most prosperous nation right now. We certainly weren't always so, and likely we won't always be. It's a matter of historical accident, not the fact that our workers are over-worked. Many studies have shown that productivity actually increases with shorter work-weeks. Diminishing returns.
-carl
Kozmo just went broke
Yeah, and Yahoo! just laid off a chunk of their staff.
Nice trend, yeah?
-carl
I'm pretty sure that smut accounts for a huge percentage of Kozmo.com's revenue.
But then, their target market is composed almost entirely of stoners.
-carl
Meanwhile, places like Extreme offer more GigE ports than you could ever imagine using and at a much more reasonable price. Cisco has a stronghold on the market indeed.
I've worked with Extreme's switches. They're good. Simple, WICKED fast, and more cost-effective than Cisco.
My only beef is that if you want to use them as core routers, you've got to be running Ethernet. No ATM interfaces. No T1 interfaces, no DS3 intercaces, no OC3/12/96 interfaces. So you've still got to hang other vendors' boxes off the mess and you risk vendors fingerpointing when something chokes.
It's kind of a catch-22. Cisco's mature, but almost too much so, which all sorts of useless legacy equipment in their product line that they have to support and legacy code in the IOS kernel. Extreme needs to become more mature, I kind of feel their software needs some fleshing out yet and they need to add some components to their product line.
I love that crazy fast backplane on the BlackDiamonds, but for chrissake can't we do something about the purple and green color scheme?
-carl
Actually, I'm pretty sure that Cisco's 2500-series routers to have m68k processors. 68030, I believe. Everything never has a PowerPC variant. Dunno about Juniper, but I'm going to guess they're running a RISC processor of some sort.
The hardware issue was another factor covered by NANOG this morning in response to this article. The long and the short of is that throwing hardware at a problem might get you through the day, but good planning and forethought will bring you through a lot more cleanly.
With any router manufacturer, your value-added is never the hardware but rather the software (i.e. Cisco's IOS) and the service. Sure, you could grab a PII and run GNU Zebra for your BGP peering, but the CCO is a great resource to have when troubleshooting. Puts MS's TechNotes system to shame. It WORKS. Plus, working in downtown Chicago I know that if my 7200 takes a dive, Cisco's got a parts depot blocks away where I can get parts.
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-carl
Uhm... April Fool's, right?
-carl
Hotline and Carracho are two systems that would probably be most similar to Freenet.
I'm wondering - how much surveillance takes place on these networks? I would expect more takes place on Hotline than Carracho as it's mac-only.
Several admins put "spider traps" on sites to foil scans of the directory structure. Not sure how effective that strategy is, as they're usually just recursive folder loops.
-carl
Does anybody remember last year's /. story about the group of Spammers/Telemarketers that got burned by some guy who was Mad As Hell and Not Going to Take it Anymore?
The guy did a little investigation of the business and ended up cracking their network, and coming up with all kinds of compromising material like contact info and n00dz. I think the company was in Tennesee or thereabouts.
It was either brilliant pranksterism, an elaborate hoax, or a disgruntled ex employee/boyfriend. Never was quite sure which.
I did a quick search of the archives and didn't find the story. I'd be real interested in knowing what the aftermath of that story was.
-carl
Internet Revolution?
.com gold rush. This is not a decentralized anti-heirarchical insurgency. You're being duped if you think your broadband AT&T connection is going to topple the current regime."
What is this, a Wired magazine think piece from 1994?
Repeat after me... "The Internet was coopted by the megacorps with the
love,
-carl
"We got notebooks, what good are notebooks, they won't help me survive."
Ha! Good point. That's why I know how to shoot and fix a truck. I like to prepare for multiple contingencies. Just in case it gets crazy Road Warrior-style.
But think about it the other way... what good are bombs if there's nanotech that will tear your attack apart in mid-air? Interesting times we live in, no telling what the future might hold.
-carl (unfrozen caveman anarcho-syndicalist)
The term pretty much sums it up for freedom in an undergrad environment.
In Loco Parentis - the University/College sees itself as the local guardian of the student, physically, spiritually, and intellectually. While certainly outdated, this still holds true in an alarming number of academic institutions.
Once you're in grad school, the line blurs a little, but as long as this stance is maintained by institutions there will be no freedom.
People have been fighting this battle for years, fromt he Port Huron Statement to the Free Speech Movement to the teach-ins in the 60s. They made inroads, but basically makes their money from keeping students out of trouble and off the job markets for four or five years. The paternalistic attitude is not shocking.
-carl
"/.ers"?!
Has VA Linux bought patent rights to Eric S. Raymond? It seems nobody is safe from the Intellectual Property menace.
-carl
Give it a graphical front end and blam! Instant VR filesystem. With actual usability, no less.
-carl
Please, there's no need for such mysogynistic language if you don't want to be written off as a troll.
First, the word "Kairetsu" doesn't translate to "conglomorate". The word roughly means "low-revenue startup business". There is NO FUCKING WAY GE would be considered a Kairetsu. VA Linux is even too big to be a Kairetsu.
Perhaps she was thinking of the word "Zaibatsu"?-carl