ROMMON doesn't have ANY networking support. I think you may be talking about the bootloader. The G2 has 3 different layers when it boots.
1) ROMMON - this is responsible for initialising the device and loading the bootloader from the bootflash: device. The bootflash is soldered onto the NPE.
2) Bootloader - This starts up and initialises the network. It parses the startup-config and then launches the IOS image.
3) IOS - This again parses the config and loads the actual unit.
The bootloader does have networking functionality, however if ANYTHING ever happens to the bootloader or bootflash:, then you will have no networking, no Xmodem recovery, nothing. To make things worse, you cannot even load a bootloader image from the compact flash card.
...(NEVER make one of these crash to ROMMON on boot. The fix is to RMA the NPE)...
I understand the ROMMON, RMA, and NPE acronyms, but what's NEVER stand for? The NEVER stands for what I mean when I don't want to sit through 8+ weeks of rubbish from Cisco to get the thing RMA'ed (lucky it was in our testing phase and not live equipment). The TAC closed the case off and refused the warranty and it's been put on the account managers plate to fix. You can think of it as _never_ or never - which ever you like. I still refuse to use the flash tag though;)
I think that after spending a number of years working in Cisco only networks, I'm constantly amazed at the generally poor compatibility and functionality of Cisco equipment.
This ranges from critical recovery steps being removed from the 7200 series G2 NPE (NEVER make one of these crash to ROMMON on boot. The fix is to RMA the NPE) for Xmodem recovery of bootloaders - something a basic 827 router has to their latest 7961 VoIP SIP phones that are apparently RFC compliant for SIP communications - but aren't.
There are MANY things that make Cisco equipment worse and worse as the years go by. Part of it I believe is the outsourcing of the people who write the software for these things now. Chances are that they weren't even around with Xmodem was in use - and I bet a lot of the coders have NEVER admin'ed a network of Cisco gear. This is the only thing I can think behind removing essential recovery procedures for $35,000AU routers.
There's a whole new direction that Cisco is heading, and with the stupid things missing from their new gear, I'm starting to wonder if it's a direction that will have huge impacts for the worse in the network admin side of life.
I noticed the comments about Mp3Sparks.com. I'd never heard of them but saw that they we're run by the same guys. I was bummed to hear allofmp3 was shutdown since I still had $30 balance on it. What do you know though, I tried to login with my allofmp3 username/login on Mp3Sparks and my account and balance was carried over. And I just assumed they'd steal my money.
Awesome. I just tried this too and my balance has been carried over:)
This sort of campaign blurs the distinction between comment and advertising. It diminishes the value of the opinions being blogged and potentially tars all tech bloggers with the same brush.
Isn't this what's been happening in most magazines now for years?
Do we really need a damn USA tag? Seriously, this is a US-centric site, so naturally more stories are going to come from the US. I don't see any EU, UK, AU, etc tags.
That's ok - I submitted a story about the ongoing CSIRO vs American Companies story here about companies that are violating patents of Australian organisations without paying royalties (yes, it is patented in the US), and the article gets rejected. I can guarantee that if this was the other way around, it'd be front page news! But I guess it's ok to do this - you know, as it's by an American company vs someone overseas.
If you want to read about it, a copy of my submission is here.
The problem is they keep all your search results, with tracking cookie. Google is in bed with the CIA: http://www.disgrunt.com/blog/2006/10/27/former-int elligence-agent-says-google-in-bed-with-cia/ Have any of you guys seen the new gmail? I won't use it...it has a built in calendar, word processor, and of course, permanent email storage, converge this with permanent tracking cookies, logs of all search requests from your IP, and of course google earth/maps (will go live eventually as the technology changes) and you have the recipie for total uncontrolled surveillance.
Well duhhhhhhhhh.
Google have been honest and upfront with all this information that they store. Thats why people know about it. If you don't like that, then don't use their services. You don't like the fact that they store your searches, then use another search engine. Don't like that they index your email? Use something else.
I have no sympathy for the people who jump up and down about this stuff. You choose to have these details stored by using Googles services. If you don't like it, don't use it. It's not that hard.
Americans are now less safe because we can be stripped of our citizenship and shipped to Guantanamo bay where we can be held for more than 5 years without even a hearing
It's interesting... The Germans during the war used "the Russian front" as a threat to soldiers to get them to do things they may have moral issues about... This implied that the person sent to the front was likely to die. Is Guantanamo Bay the 2007 equivalent of the Russian front?
When I read the GP's post, I thought that verifying the array - however google brings up VERY little information about this. It seems there is no way to do this through 'mdadm' - which you would assume you'd do it with - as that does everything else to do with array management...
It wasn't until I came and read the replies to this post that I actually found out how to do this!
My reaction was, it doesn't matter if you're limited to the speed of light, or if it can provide additional encryption. It still has the benefit that you can send data without using the (limited) electromagnetic spectrum, or laying down lines, both of which are expensive markets to enter.
Colour me as a quantum entanglement n00b, but could this be used between exploring satellites/probes to communicate back to earth therefore making the 6+ year wait for data a thing of the past?
Nobody else makes shitty routers with WAY underpowered hardware that aren't remotely capable of performing the tasks they are sold to perform.
Ahhh yes, I agree - however, check what type of equipment your ISP is running. 99% chance it's Cisco. Their ISP? Yup, probably Cisco again...
However much you might hate their gear, and no matter how retarded some of the limitations are, it's a fact of life - Cisco gear isn't going anywhere soon.
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I don't know if Aquantive is a better fit for them or if they have just decided to get in the ad game at all costs.
Maybe these guys use Windows for all their servers. Google probably use some variant of open source, as do Doubleclick. MS can't acknowledge that a decent business can operate using FOSS so they can't buy a company that does well using open source as their SoE - that would discredit the whole FUD about FOSS.
It makes me wonder what legal avenues MS are opening them up to if they choose to terminate access to X360's when installing a modchip is perfectly legal etc in Australia.
Sony learnt the hard way about modchips on the PS2. Legal precedent was set. Good luck getting that overturned many years on.
Ernestine: We handle eighty-four billion calls a year. Serving everyone from presidents and kings to the scum of the earth. We realize that every so often you can't get an operator, for no apparent reason your phone goes out of order, or perhaps you get charged for a call you didn't make.
We don't care.
Watch this.. [ she hits buttons maniacally ]..just lost Peoria.
You see, this phone system consists of a multibillion-dollar matrix of space age technology that is so sophisticated, even we can't handle it. But that's your problem, isn't it? Next time you complain about your phone service, why don't you try using two Dixie cups with a string?
We don't care. We don't have to. We're the Phone Company.
Indeed. There seems to be a lot of "interesting" additions to the Solaris core over the past 6 or so months that I can only figure would benefit Apple. It's almost as if the core of OSX is about to jump to the Solaris kernel....
There's also a ton of reports of very basic prompts (ie more basic than Tiger) in a ton of different places - when looking at API changes etc, it looks like something is being withheld from the dev previews - and I guess time will tell what it's going to be.
Apple is a very smart company - they don't put all their cards on the table from the beginning. There is lots of method behind what we see as madness, and you can expect that the "preview" of features for Leopard is only going to be the tip of the iceberg - but you won't know it until just before it's release.
DD-WRT offers overclocking facilities, as well as boosting number of IP connections and wireless transmit power. I really recommend it to anyone with a compatiable Linksys.
no, no, no, no, no. Once again, if you didn't get it.... NO!
There are a number of funky things that DD-WRT will do - however overclocking it risks the unit being dead forever - unless you want to get into the lovely JTAG recovery for having an overclock fail.
There's also the small fact that when you increase the power output using DD-WRT you start spewing out spurious emissions all over the place. This basically means that you spew crap all over the 2.4Ghz band. Oh, and it'll also make the FCC license on these things void and open you up for charges. As well as screwing over the wifi band for everyone else.
You'd have to be a douche to recommend the average person do this unless they can measure how much damage they are doing to everyone else.
So can we assume that Google has deployed 830,000 hard disk drives since 2001? How many servers do they have now?
Do you really think that they don't store every cookie and search pattern that everyone who uses their search engine? Cross-reference all this data, alter their ranks, follow your interests, use those to make money and target you with ads?
There is a ton of money for this information, and with enough stored data and having the facility to mine it, filter it, and sort it to location level for various advertising categories for advertisers.
Google has been very smart in the way they do business - they make money of studying your habits and selling the result (in the form of stats and/or ads).
We're not afraid of cameras. We just don't like what they represent, which is the death of privacy. What's that, you say? 'Why should I worry about privacy if I have nothing to hide?'
You've missed the point completely. You still have privacy in private areas. Your home. On the street, in your car etc you are out in public view. You don't have any privacy in public. Anyone could take photos or video tape of you all the time while you're out and about. In public, you don't have any right to privacy.
Demonstration: Go stand on your nearest street corner. Then ask everybody who walks or drives anywhere near you to not look at you because you want your privacy. You don't want anyone to observe what you're doing on that street corner so you have privacy.
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ROMMON doesn't have ANY networking support. I think you may be talking about the bootloader. The G2 has 3 different layers when it boots.
1) ROMMON - this is responsible for initialising the device and loading the bootloader from the bootflash: device. The bootflash is soldered onto the NPE.
2) Bootloader - This starts up and initialises the network. It parses the startup-config and then launches the IOS image.
3) IOS - This again parses the config and loads the actual unit.
The bootloader does have networking functionality, however if ANYTHING ever happens to the bootloader or bootflash:, then you will have no networking, no Xmodem recovery, nothing. To make things worse, you cannot even load a bootloader image from the compact flash card.
I understand the ROMMON, RMA, and NPE acronyms, but what's NEVER stand for? The NEVER stands for what I mean when I don't want to sit through 8+ weeks of rubbish from Cisco to get the thing RMA'ed (lucky it was in our testing phase and not live equipment). The TAC closed the case off and refused the warranty and it's been put on the account managers plate to fix. You can think of it as _never_ or never - which ever you like. I still refuse to use the flash tag though
Wow - I think my experiences are quite the same... Check out my post above yours :P
I think that after spending a number of years working in Cisco only networks, I'm constantly amazed at the generally poor compatibility and functionality of Cisco equipment.
This ranges from critical recovery steps being removed from the 7200 series G2 NPE (NEVER make one of these crash to ROMMON on boot. The fix is to RMA the NPE) for Xmodem recovery of bootloaders - something a basic 827 router has to their latest 7961 VoIP SIP phones that are apparently RFC compliant for SIP communications - but aren't.
There are MANY things that make Cisco equipment worse and worse as the years go by. Part of it I believe is the outsourcing of the people who write the software for these things now. Chances are that they weren't even around with Xmodem was in use - and I bet a lot of the coders have NEVER admin'ed a network of Cisco gear. This is the only thing I can think behind removing essential recovery procedures for $35,000AU routers.
There's a whole new direction that Cisco is heading, and with the stupid things missing from their new gear, I'm starting to wonder if it's a direction that will have huge impacts for the worse in the network admin side of life.
Awesome. I just tried this too and my balance has been carried over
Isn't this what's been happening in most magazines now for years?
That's ok - I submitted a story about the ongoing CSIRO vs American Companies story here about companies that are violating patents of Australian organisations without paying royalties (yes, it is patented in the US), and the article gets rejected. I can guarantee that if this was the other way around, it'd be front page news! But I guess it's ok to do this - you know, as it's by an American company vs someone overseas.
If you want to read about it, a copy of my submission is here.
I love it when they get it wrong.... It was 1500 accounts, not computers. Get the story from a real IT news source.
Well duhhhhhhhhh.
Google have been honest and upfront with all this information that they store. Thats why people know about it. If you don't like that, then don't use their services. You don't like the fact that they store your searches, then use another search engine. Don't like that they index your email? Use something else.
I have no sympathy for the people who jump up and down about this stuff. You choose to have these details stored by using Googles services. If you don't like it, don't use it. It's not that hard.
It's interesting... The Germans during the war used "the Russian front" as a threat to soldiers to get them to do things they may have moral issues about... This implied that the person sent to the front was likely to die. Is Guantanamo Bay the 2007 equivalent of the Russian front?
When I read the GP's post, I thought that verifying the array - however google brings up VERY little information about this. It seems there is no way to do this through 'mdadm' - which you would assume you'd do it with - as that does everything else to do with array management...
It wasn't until I came and read the replies to this post that I actually found out how to do this!
Colour me as a quantum entanglement n00b, but could this be used between exploring satellites/probes to communicate back to earth therefore making the 6+ year wait for data a thing of the past?
Who would have thought that once every six years my sig would actually be true ;)
Ahhh yes, I agree - however, check what type of equipment your ISP is running. 99% chance it's Cisco. Their ISP? Yup, probably Cisco again...
However much you might hate their gear, and no matter how retarded some of the limitations are, it's a fact of life - Cisco gear isn't going anywhere soon.
Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers.
Watch out, if I say it any more times I'll attract the chair-throwing monkey boy and then Facebook has no chance!
In other news, there's going to be a large source of cheap cameras for people who don't mind getting their hands dirty ;)
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Maybe these guys use Windows for all their servers. Google probably use some variant of open source, as do Doubleclick. MS can't acknowledge that a decent business can operate using FOSS so they can't buy a company that does well using open source as their SoE - that would discredit the whole FUD about FOSS.
It makes me wonder what legal avenues MS are opening them up to if they choose to terminate access to X360's when installing a modchip is perfectly legal etc in Australia.
Sony learnt the hard way about modchips on the PS2. Legal precedent was set. Good luck getting that overturned many years on.
And an even more interesting connection, how do they intend to collect these said royalties?
Indeed. There seems to be a lot of "interesting" additions to the Solaris core over the past 6 or so months that I can only figure would benefit Apple. It's almost as if the core of OSX is about to jump to the Solaris kernel....
There's also a ton of reports of very basic prompts (ie more basic than Tiger) in a ton of different places - when looking at API changes etc, it looks like something is being withheld from the dev previews - and I guess time will tell what it's going to be.
Apple is a very smart company - they don't put all their cards on the table from the beginning. There is lots of method behind what we see as madness, and you can expect that the "preview" of features for Leopard is only going to be the tip of the iceberg - but you won't know it until just before it's release.
no, no, no, no, no. Once again, if you didn't get it.... NO!
There are a number of funky things that DD-WRT will do - however overclocking it risks the unit being dead forever - unless you want to get into the lovely JTAG recovery for having an overclock fail.
There's also the small fact that when you increase the power output using DD-WRT you start spewing out spurious emissions all over the place. This basically means that you spew crap all over the 2.4Ghz band. Oh, and it'll also make the FCC license on these things void and open you up for charges. As well as screwing over the wifi band for everyone else.
You'd have to be a douche to recommend the average person do this unless they can measure how much damage they are doing to everyone else.
Do you really think that they don't store every cookie and search pattern that everyone who uses their search engine? Cross-reference all this data, alter their ranks, follow your interests, use those to make money and target you with ads?
There is a ton of money for this information, and with enough stored data and having the facility to mine it, filter it, and sort it to location level for various advertising categories for advertisers.
Google has been very smart in the way they do business - they make money of studying your habits and selling the result (in the form of stats and/or ads).
You've missed the point completely. You still have privacy in private areas. Your home. On the street, in your car etc you are out in public view. You don't have any privacy in public. Anyone could take photos or video tape of you all the time while you're out and about. In public, you don't have any right to privacy.
Demonstration: Go stand on your nearest street corner. Then ask everybody who walks or drives anywhere near you to not look at you because you want your privacy. You don't want anyone to observe what you're doing on that street corner so you have privacy.
Sound stupid? Maybe you get the point now.