whether it existed or not, recent common carrier reform from the FCC made it sacrosanct. You cant cap, shape, hijack, or rate limit internet. Carriers are toeing a dangerous line by continuing to experiment with pre-2015 policy as though no reform had ever happened.
Until the big penalties start rolling in, i suggest taking back as much bandwidth as you can. noscript and adblock get the job done, but you can also null-route known advertisers servers and subnets. http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/
If youre running internet in a household with more than one person in it, strict firewalls are also a good way to prevent random windows bloatware from phoning home or gobbling data without your consent.
since this is a tour showcase, and these monitors are all presumably providing metrics and alerts to act upon, why not encode the display and simply beam it wherever you want?
https://obsproject.com/index OpenBroadcast project seems to have been designed for this, and would mean instead of a bunch of computers you could just buy smart TV's with embedded android.
some of these are algorithmic wankery designed solely as an observational tool to judge your approach to problem solving and performance under stress. They cant be solved, and are an utter waste of time in your presented future role, but from an HR standpoint your reaction is important. You can generally spot these if a manager asks the question instead of a more qualified technical contact on your meeting schedule. Basically, just keep throwing out answers until they get bored and move on. never say, 'i dont know' or 'i cant.'
for systems engineers, its typically some fluff question like how to build a datacenter in literal hell, or how to handle wireless voip QoS in a flying rape crisis icecream truck.
after common carrier reforms were passed this year its really shocking to see internet providers still pulling crap like this. Comcast considers this a trial because its hoping if it rolls the whole thing out slowly enough then maybe, just maybe, it wont face scrutiny by the FCC and a class-action lawsuit.
caps, wireless hotspot whoring, advertisement injection and yes, even SRVFAIL hijacking should have come to an abrupt halt under the FCC reform. Turning your callcenters into crisis hotlines that grill you in ESL about what you use the internet for are also a pain in the ass. stop advertising internet service i can buy over the internet if it just means i have to spend 2 hours on the phone to seal the deal 3 days later when a truck drives by to hook my internet up.
Im sure ill get downvoted for offering a non-solution but, bear with me...I think you need to take a more practical and meaningful approach to email in general...
speaking as an email administrator, Yearly archives of email are the virtual equivalent of an elderly hoarder with shoeboxes full of random correspondence. Once something is deleted, consider deleting it for good. Create a policy that, after 1 year or 30 days or $n amount of time, mail is automatically deleted regardless of whether its been read. if youve been mailed something for your personal record and its not in PDF format, click print-to-pdf, store it in an encrypted drive, and delete that message immediately. If you need information from the email for later use beyond the period of deletion then theres most surely a date youll have to act upon it. store it as a reminder in a calendar, and delete the email. the less email you have, the safer you are because youre being accountable for the data and information you're entrusted with by your peers...not just shoeboxing it.
The BBC claims the extensive archive inventory is available only to UK-based viewers
As a Briton living in the states, this is an injustice. Ive furiously sipped the rest of my tea and intend to post a letter to the home office at once. I shant, cant, and wont tolerate a world where i cant loaf idly on a sunday with a sack of crisps and binge on last of the summer wine.
Microsoft: BEHOLD! we have a cloud! dont all come running to us at once now... Cloud users: uh, we all use linux...here in the cloud...and weve had cloud since 2006. we kinda built it to get around, well, you. Microsoft: we have an ganoo linux! check it out! Cloud users: so...a rebranded rhel?...no debian? ubuntu? Microsoft:**frantically buries redhat in cash** We now have red hats! Cloud users: uh.... Microsoft: [uncomfortable smile]
telling a meaningful story with an engaging plot, complex dialogue and interesting characters? or pinching out another Avengers/Batman/Bond/Furious? studios have decided the easiest way to make money is to paint with a shotgun, so its no surprise we get cognitive neuroscience involved.
The rules are already pretty simple: keep the dialogue at the 8th grade level and the characters simple. House is a meanie bo beanie, sheldon is a goofy nerd, and the team on NCIS follows such predictability they could be used as a canary to ensure a tv stations satellites were tracking properly. Combine your average sitcom with a healthy dose of product placement and well timed advertisements between painfully obvious and intentional cliffhangers and youve got yourself a riveting cinematic blockbuster thats sure to entertain some 300 pound navel-gazing white trash single mom for at least the 30 minutes it takes to chug a soda and finish a cold pizza.
the devils in the details. You cant expect to gain 10-15% profit quarterly and assume a product anything less than C grade is going to come out of the effort. it means rehash concepts, repeat plotlines, and a whole lot of commercial time. It means squeezing out stinkers like minions and then skull-fucking parents into everything from online games to fast food and clothing tie-ins because you dont have time for ideas. Exploiting basic human urges is simply a more cost effective means to ensure people who already watch this shit, continue to watch it.
As an engineer working for a company that rhymes with bored, this is a disaster of biblical proportions for VW. Ive already heard people calling them smokeswagons and having a hard time reselling, but its important to remeber that this could have happened to any automotive manufacturer with a lapse in conscience.
JIT, Kanban, and other modern manufacturing processes for cars start with a platform, and from that platform grows a number of different vehicles. Jaguar is mostly Cadillac and ford parts, Range Rover is also borne from many shared components of chevrolet and to a lesser extent GM. What the consumer is buying isnt quality anymore but the marketing auspices of a proud brand.
the same ECM can control hundreds of cars, and is programmed at the factory by line and tooling departments to meet the predetermined build demand. core components like emissions, if you wanted to skirt them, would be too hard to retool every time and would arouse suspicion. So making nefarious code a core of the software is a no-brainer. its also a killing stroke for a number of brands.
taking a step back, porsche owners dont care. BMW owners barely care. the majority of these owners dont maintain regular service, dont care about automotive emissions, and either sell the car or end their lease once the vehicle no longer suits them. the car is a status symbol and until emissions become a scarlet letter outside of the state of california its tricky to see how either brand is legitimately affected. what is affected is the continued ability of VW to sell their brands in the US and other, much stricter countries. You can expect delays in delivery, testing, and increased cost as the brand now has to prove to regulators and governments that its on the straight and narrow. This chicanery will haunt VW for no less than 25 years, or at worst it will follow the company like the quality issues of american manufacturers in the 80s until the restructuring of the company..
ive worked for several companies that do this shit to keep up with, usually, Google. They unveil unlimited email, and then 2 years later accounting shoots through the roof with the amount it costs them. upper management is baffled as to why this is so expensive, and ops then spend 6 months carving away at spam accounts until things return to normal/affordable.
What microsoft doesnt understand is that Google does not operate in the traditional weasle-word sense of "enterprise grade." while youre purchasing shiny new netapps, theyre using off the shelf commodity hard drives modelled by their own statisticians to predict failure. they dont repair arrays or disks, they dont have to worry about memory failures. anything that dies gets chucked, replaced, reprovisioned, and brought back into the fold as if nothing ever happened. this free storage model works for them because the very same ecosystem microsoft fostered and is now constrained by, is not part of what Google has intentionally designed.
now if mozilla could only remove the targeted advertisement feature, the video chat, and firefox sync we'd be getting somewhere. Firefox used to have a code of ethics and 10 user rights, but those went right out the window once that sweet sweet Google cash started rolling in.
Ill haul out the soapbox for a bit of offtopic...but how many people are sick of these cars with the all-you-can-eat infotainment systems in them? Im not talking about parents with kids that need raffi or barney on loop in the 3rd row of their urban assault vehicle. im talking about anything more than a convenient display and a USB audio jack. handsfree? never needed it. ill call back when and if im available. I dont need lane change assist, i dont need auto parking, i dont need some computer to stop my car before i crash because im face down in the dashboard tweeting my latest achievement behind the wheel. I grew up with a mustang foxbody, a manual, and if i wanted better sound i read a book and learned how to install a car stereo. I dont need the car to sync my contacts, text my friends, or google search. I just need it to be a car. Most importantly I need it to be a car thats fun to drive, reasonable to work on, and not a tin can. I get that its 2015, and we can have this stuff but there doesnt seem to be any option for people who just want to drive to just have a car. no ass-warmers, cup warmers, or weird wipers that wipe the rain and your ass by turning on when it starts raining for you. I dont need onstar, and I dont need navigation.
devops was spawned from startup culture. imho it was never intended to be something that lasted longer than a few hundred users or internal need. The needs of ops and developers, while similar in some ways, vary dramatically in others. devops is a compromise designed to foster quick, often unscaleable delivery of a service. Once larger companies caught on that you could make devs to op work, and vice versa, the trend became unstoppable. its still an insufferable title.
As an op, i dont write the kind of code that would get into a formal repo with a standup and peer review. im writing a script to automate something that either pisses me off or takes up too much of my time. I write breakfix code too, but its not designed to upgrade or mod easily and i dont share a ton of comments or documentation because im busy handling the infrastructure. piping my one-liners and quick functions through the holy trinity of git/gerrit/jenkins for review by real developers is a demoralizing pain in the ass. it also slows down fixes and deployments by subjecting talented coders to a confusing ratsnest of code that isnt meant to become a fundamental part of how a user interacts with the brand.
and making devs subservient to ops isnt something you should do either. scrum and kanban and swimlanes are boring 15-30 minute reminders that marketing drives the bus. We need to be part of the rollout process to make sure things, if they break, are handled appropriately. its nice to have validation the codes been tested as well, but all these things are an email or a quick chat and dont need to involve a manager.
Real switching, high speed carrier grade stuff, is more about hardware asics than software. Its comparatively exhaustingly expensive to route subnet or vlan traffic because the CPU on most machines isn't quick enough with bus overhead. Cisco and others own a monopoly on ultra high speed asic enabled hardware used by cloudflare and others. Modern virtual switching hardware is fast enough to crush practically any consumer hardware.
Kinda offtopic, but bear with me. Enterprise grade is what closed source rolled out once they started losing sales to well maintained and stable open source projects. it comes with support contracts and licenses, but not much else. Just as many closed vendors will disappoint you with their support as open source. You could argue wikimedia is enterprise grade, because it supports 1.21 million accounts. but unless and until the business is committed to defining exactly what they mean by "enterprise grade" you have nothing to go on other than "software that requires a purchase order and recurring license"
that having been said, check out foswiki. search and control are all pretty good.
In american companies its routinely accepted that they maintain 15% growth each quarter to be seen as profitable in the eyes of investors. traditional managers will try to maximize this by the product offered, but rarely does a product outside of things like fast-casual food or illegal narcotics offer anything close to this revenue trend. So, what do we do? infrastructure has to be repaired and replaced, and talented engineers in the most expensive city in america aren't cheap. eventually you reach a revenue plateau and have to resort to book-cookery to make the company meet the unspoken 15%. You cant cut project managers, mid management, or upper management because theyre implicit in maintaining the revenue illusion. So, you cut engineering, support, NOC, network and any other skilled craft because they get paid in non-trivial sums.
once this trend starts its hard to buck. uptime suffers, features are placed ahead of security and bugs, and what once was a well oiled machine now becomes, er, a slashdot of sorts. layoffs continue until morale improves, or more likely you find a buyer. After that your once proud brand just becomes another cog in the internet of things.
and for those wondering why you have layoffs in america instead of terminations? its because fired employees are entitled to unemployment compensation and laid off employees arent. Sure, they may never be rehired at that job, but the simple fact is companies do it to skirt a myriad of prtotections americans fought for in the early and mid 20th century.
unregulated online sports is a very kind way of saying online gambling. Either its a sport, or its a website you pump money into in the hopes of winning big. Gambling is never a winning proposition, kids. No matter how closely its tied to sports, which are fun to watch, gambling always means over a long enough timespan the house always wins.
Promises of room-temperature fusion machines in every home providing nearly-free energy for all.
I dont know about the rest of you but my Mr. Fusion works just fine. I mean, it just came out this year but I havent had many problems with it. hell, even sold my old one to some elderly guy and a kid driving around the town in an old delorean.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/2...
Matt got reamed for this because it was a stupid idea, not because the environment was somehow too immature.
from Linus Torvalds himself:
Guys, this is not a dick-sucking contest.
If you want to parse PE binaries, go right ahead.
If Red Hat wants to deep-throat Microsoft, that's *your* issue. That
has nothing what-so-ever to do with the kernel I maintain. It's
trivial for you guys to have a signing machine that parses the PE
binary, verifies the signatures, and signs the resulting keys with
your own key. You already wrote the code, for chissake, it's in that
f*cking pull request.
By the time SCALE 11 hit, Matt was no longer working at redhat. people moved on. A Fork was always an option for Matthew...just perplexed as to why he decided to do it 2 years after...
to stop people like Kim Davis, George Zimmerman or any number of cops "forced to resign" after opening fire on an unarmed person and facing no charges. Its all fun and games until the legal defense kickstarter campaigns for highly controversial amateur celebrities begins to drag your domain name through the dirt. Kickstarter did this to bring focus back to home made jam farms and soap companies. It did this to avoid becoming a GoDaddy.
Basically with the latter two modes I'd like to be able to switch between inputting to PC1 & DOCK1, whilst continuing to be able to monitor each by outputting each one's video to one of the 2 monitors. However, I also want to be able to go dual-screen with and control PC1 & PC2.
I guess a better question is 'what do you want to do?' It sounds like all 3 will need to be immediately accessible. switching quickly between the 3 would be cheapest if you purchased multiple keyboards, and mice. Identify the gaming machine, and if required give it 2 monitors. the rest can KVM traditionally through a single or have a dedicated number of monitors.
workload in general...you might want to address some consolidation issues if you find yourself requiring 3 graphical terminals. For example: if one is a BSD machine you could simply ssh or vnc into it.
I for one am worried were approaching this technology from only one side. We need to find an alcoholic, intellectual playboy with a debilitating terminal illness caused by an exotic, unstable power source permanently embedded in his chest.
seems like we see one of these every few months. maybe its true, but its hardly a problem we cant as americans drag our feet on. There are numerous practical reasons we have poor ipv6 penetration. not the least of which are:
understanding: greybeards and young guns alike in IT share an almost religious fear of IPv6 sometimes. Its a poltergeist most companies would care to avoid as well, as it would require hiring people who understand ipv6 as well as 4. not just the address, but how to route it, how to firewall it, and how to handle its DNS addressing. unless youre a firmly bunkered BOFH, youll have gaps in your understanding. infrastructure: ipv6 has been in place at comcast and time warner for a while, but it requires DOCSIS 3 capable modems to handle the traffic and ipv6 capable wireless ap's in many cases. most americans who dont bask in the warm green glow of slashdot havent rushed out to buy a new modem when their current one is just as good. most cable companies were loathe to provide a free or subsidized upgrade (thats probably changed now that theyre common-carrier status) but it doesnt change the meat of the problem. To fix modems would require an upgrade not seen since we switched from analogue to digital broadcast television. the web.: AWS sites still dont support ipv6. hosting providers like GoDaddy and Dreamhost have done a magnificent job of building out support but dedicated hosting solutions may still include legacy apache and nginx that dont speak 6. vendors like ironport speak ipv6 about as fluently as a slavic tourist, and in many cases proxy software and antispam actually reject ipv6 transported email as they cant handle reverse ipv6 lookups. many appliances rely entirely on hurricane or other public 6-2-4 proxes to maintain any semblance of support for the protocol. other companies like F5 networks have glorious support for ipv6, but few customers that care about it outside of cloud hosting providers.
do yourself a favour, learn it. Learn what it is and how it works, and make it a weekend project at home. youd be surprised how many people raise an eyebrow when you put 'ipv6' on your resume. For my countrymen here in the states, its coming. you cant stop it, and dual stack implementations already exist in your cellphones and public hotspots.
in terms of networking, most 48 volt injectors have caps to dump 'high' voltages. standard network switching however might not expect potentially disastrous voltages. At best, you might be able to fry a switch-worth of connectivity for a few hours or a day but id expect that would be it.
I ran into this problem in an industrial setting. part of the factory contained a particularly nasty unshielded induction furnace. the network card on the machine that controlled SCADA for that furnace had a cable run that was just close enough to pick up a current and fry about a motherboard a month. The solution was a fibre card, ironically provided by the furnace maker.
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whether it existed or not, recent common carrier reform from the FCC made it sacrosanct. You cant cap, shape, hijack, or rate limit internet. Carriers are toeing a dangerous line by continuing to experiment with pre-2015 policy as though no reform had ever happened.
Until the big penalties start rolling in, i suggest taking back as much bandwidth as you can. noscript and adblock get the job done, but you can also null-route known advertisers servers and subnets. http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/
If youre running internet in a household with more than one person in it, strict firewalls are also a good way to prevent random windows bloatware from phoning home or gobbling data without your consent.
since this is a tour showcase, and these monitors are all presumably providing metrics and alerts to act upon, why not encode the display and simply beam it wherever you want?
https://obsproject.com/index OpenBroadcast project seems to have been designed for this, and would mean instead of a bunch of computers you could just buy smart TV's with embedded android.
some of these are algorithmic wankery designed solely as an observational tool to judge your approach to problem solving and performance under stress. They cant be solved, and are an utter waste of time in your presented future role, but from an HR standpoint your reaction is important. You can generally spot these if a manager asks the question instead of a more qualified technical contact on your meeting schedule. Basically, just keep throwing out answers until they get bored and move on. never say, 'i dont know' or 'i cant.'
for systems engineers, its typically some fluff question like how to build a datacenter in literal hell, or how to handle wireless voip QoS in a flying rape crisis icecream truck.
after common carrier reforms were passed this year its really shocking to see internet providers still pulling crap like this. Comcast considers this a trial because its hoping if it rolls the whole thing out slowly enough then maybe, just maybe, it wont face scrutiny by the FCC and a class-action lawsuit.
caps, wireless hotspot whoring, advertisement injection and yes, even SRVFAIL hijacking should have come to an abrupt halt under the FCC reform. Turning your callcenters into crisis hotlines that grill you in ESL about what you use the internet for are also a pain in the ass. stop advertising internet service i can buy over the internet if it just means i have to spend 2 hours on the phone to seal the deal 3 days later when a truck drives by to hook my internet up.
Im sure ill get downvoted for offering a non-solution but, bear with me...I think you need to take a more practical and meaningful approach to email in general...
speaking as an email administrator, Yearly archives of email are the virtual equivalent of an elderly hoarder with shoeboxes full of random correspondence. Once something is deleted, consider deleting it for good. Create a policy that, after 1 year or 30 days or $n amount of time, mail is automatically deleted regardless of whether its been read. if youve been mailed something for your personal record and its not in PDF format, click print-to-pdf, store it in an encrypted drive, and delete that message immediately. If you need information from the email for later use beyond the period of deletion then theres most surely a date youll have to act upon it. store it as a reminder in a calendar, and delete the email. the less email you have, the safer you are because youre being accountable for the data and information you're entrusted with by your peers...not just shoeboxing it.
The BBC claims the extensive archive inventory is available only to UK-based viewers
As a Briton living in the states, this is an injustice. Ive furiously sipped the rest of my tea and intend to post a letter to the home office at once. I shant, cant, and wont tolerate a world where i cant loaf idly on a sunday with a sack of crisps and binge on last of the summer wine.
Microsoft: BEHOLD! we have a cloud! dont all come running to us at once now...
Cloud users: uh, we all use linux...here in the cloud...and weve had cloud since 2006. we kinda built it to get around, well, you.
Microsoft: we have an ganoo linux! check it out!
Cloud users: so...a rebranded rhel?...no debian? ubuntu?
Microsoft:**frantically buries redhat in cash** We now have red hats!
Cloud users: uh....
Microsoft: [uncomfortable smile]
telling a meaningful story with an engaging plot, complex dialogue and interesting characters? or pinching out another Avengers/Batman/Bond/Furious? studios have decided the easiest way to make money is to paint with a shotgun, so its no surprise we get cognitive neuroscience involved.
The rules are already pretty simple: keep the dialogue at the 8th grade level and the characters simple. House is a meanie bo beanie, sheldon is a goofy nerd, and the team on NCIS follows such predictability they could be used as a canary to ensure a tv stations satellites were tracking properly. Combine your average sitcom with a healthy dose of product placement and well timed advertisements between painfully obvious and intentional cliffhangers and youve got yourself a riveting cinematic blockbuster thats sure to entertain some 300 pound navel-gazing white trash single mom for at least the 30 minutes it takes to chug a soda and finish a cold pizza.
the devils in the details. You cant expect to gain 10-15% profit quarterly and assume a product anything less than C grade is going to come out of the effort. it means rehash concepts, repeat plotlines, and a whole lot of commercial time. It means squeezing out stinkers like minions and then skull-fucking parents into everything from online games to fast food and clothing tie-ins because you dont have time for ideas. Exploiting basic human urges is simply a more cost effective means to ensure people who already watch this shit, continue to watch it.
As an engineer working for a company that rhymes with bored, this is a disaster of biblical proportions for VW. Ive already heard people calling them smokeswagons and having a hard time reselling, but its important to remeber that this could have happened to any automotive manufacturer with a lapse in conscience.
JIT, Kanban, and other modern manufacturing processes for cars start with a platform, and from that platform grows a number of different vehicles. Jaguar is mostly Cadillac and ford parts, Range Rover is also borne from many shared components of chevrolet and to a lesser extent GM. What the consumer is buying isnt quality anymore but the marketing auspices of a proud brand.
the same ECM can control hundreds of cars, and is programmed at the factory by line and tooling departments to meet the predetermined build demand. core components like emissions, if you wanted to skirt them, would be too hard to retool every time and would arouse suspicion. So making nefarious code a core of the software is a no-brainer. its also a killing stroke for a number of brands.
taking a step back, porsche owners dont care. BMW owners barely care. the majority of these owners dont maintain regular service, dont care about automotive emissions, and either sell the car or end their lease once the vehicle no longer suits them. the car is a status symbol and until emissions become a scarlet letter outside of the state of california its tricky to see how either brand is legitimately affected. what is affected is the continued ability of VW to sell their brands in the US and other, much stricter countries. You can expect delays in delivery, testing, and increased cost as the brand now has to prove to regulators and governments that its on the straight and narrow. This chicanery will haunt VW for no less than 25 years, or at worst it will follow the company like the quality issues of american manufacturers in the 80s until the restructuring of the company..
ive worked for several companies that do this shit to keep up with, usually, Google. They unveil unlimited email, and then 2 years later accounting shoots through the roof with the amount it costs them. upper management is baffled as to why this is so expensive, and ops then spend 6 months carving away at spam accounts until things return to normal/affordable.
What microsoft doesnt understand is that Google does not operate in the traditional weasle-word sense of "enterprise grade." while youre purchasing shiny new netapps, theyre using off the shelf commodity hard drives modelled by their own statisticians to predict failure. they dont repair arrays or disks, they dont have to worry about memory failures. anything that dies gets chucked, replaced, reprovisioned, and brought back into the fold as if nothing ever happened. this free storage model works for them because the very same ecosystem microsoft fostered and is now constrained by, is not part of what Google has intentionally designed.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/... release notes for the nerds.
now if mozilla could only remove the targeted advertisement feature, the video chat, and firefox sync we'd be getting somewhere. Firefox used to have a code of ethics and 10 user rights, but those went right out the window once that sweet sweet Google cash started rolling in.
Ill haul out the soapbox for a bit of offtopic...but how many people are sick of these cars with the all-you-can-eat infotainment systems in them? Im not talking about parents with kids that need raffi or barney on loop in the 3rd row of their urban assault vehicle. im talking about anything more than a convenient display and a USB audio jack. handsfree? never needed it. ill call back when and if im available. I dont need lane change assist, i dont need auto parking, i dont need some computer to stop my car before i crash because im face down in the dashboard tweeting my latest achievement behind the wheel. I grew up with a mustang foxbody, a manual, and if i wanted better sound i read a book and learned how to install a car stereo. I dont need the car to sync my contacts, text my friends, or google search. I just need it to be a car. Most importantly I need it to be a car thats fun to drive, reasonable to work on, and not a tin can. I get that its 2015, and we can have this stuff but there doesnt seem to be any option for people who just want to drive to just have a car. no ass-warmers, cup warmers, or weird wipers that wipe the rain and your ass by turning on when it starts raining for you. I dont need onstar, and I dont need navigation.
devops was spawned from startup culture. imho it was never intended to be something that lasted longer than a few hundred users or internal need. The needs of ops and developers, while similar in some ways, vary dramatically in others. devops is a compromise designed to foster quick, often unscaleable delivery of a service. Once larger companies caught on that you could make devs to op work, and vice versa, the trend became unstoppable. its still an insufferable title.
As an op, i dont write the kind of code that would get into a formal repo with a standup and peer review. im writing a script to automate something that either pisses me off or takes up too much of my time. I write breakfix code too, but its not designed to upgrade or mod easily and i dont share a ton of comments or documentation because im busy handling the infrastructure. piping my one-liners and quick functions through the holy trinity of git/gerrit/jenkins for review by real developers is a demoralizing pain in the ass. it also slows down fixes and deployments by subjecting talented coders to a confusing ratsnest of code that isnt meant to become a fundamental part of how a user interacts with the brand.
and making devs subservient to ops isnt something you should do either. scrum and kanban and swimlanes are boring 15-30 minute reminders that marketing drives the bus. We need to be part of the rollout process to make sure things, if they break, are handled appropriately. its nice to have validation the codes been tested as well, but all these things are an email or a quick chat and dont need to involve a manager.
Real switching, high speed carrier grade stuff, is more about hardware asics than software. Its comparatively exhaustingly expensive to route subnet or vlan traffic because the CPU on most machines isn't quick enough with bus overhead. Cisco and others own a monopoly on ultra high speed asic enabled hardware used by cloudflare and others. Modern virtual switching hardware is fast enough to crush practically any consumer hardware.
Kinda offtopic, but bear with me. Enterprise grade is what closed source rolled out once they started losing sales to well maintained and stable open source projects. it comes with support contracts and licenses, but not much else. Just as many closed vendors will disappoint you with their support as open source. You could argue wikimedia is enterprise grade, because it supports 1.21 million accounts. but unless and until the business is committed to defining exactly what they mean by "enterprise grade" you have nothing to go on other than "software that requires a purchase order and recurring license"
that having been said, check out foswiki. search and control are all pretty good.
In american companies its routinely accepted that they maintain 15% growth each quarter to be seen as profitable in the eyes of investors. traditional managers will try to maximize this by the product offered, but rarely does a product outside of things like fast-casual food or illegal narcotics offer anything close to this revenue trend. So, what do we do? infrastructure has to be repaired and replaced, and talented engineers in the most expensive city in america aren't cheap. eventually you reach a revenue plateau and have to resort to book-cookery to make the company meet the unspoken 15%. You cant cut project managers, mid management, or upper management because theyre implicit in maintaining the revenue illusion. So, you cut engineering, support, NOC, network and any other skilled craft because they get paid in non-trivial sums.
once this trend starts its hard to buck. uptime suffers, features are placed ahead of security and bugs, and what once was a well oiled machine now becomes, er, a slashdot of sorts. layoffs continue until morale improves, or more likely you find a buyer. After that your once proud brand just becomes another cog in the internet of things.
and for those wondering why you have layoffs in america instead of terminations? its because fired employees are entitled to unemployment compensation and laid off employees arent. Sure, they may never be rehired at that job, but the simple fact is companies do it to skirt a myriad of prtotections americans fought for in the early and mid 20th century.
unregulated online sports is a very kind way of saying online gambling. Either its a sport, or its a website you pump money into in the hopes of winning big. Gambling is never a winning proposition, kids. No matter how closely its tied to sports, which are fun to watch, gambling always means over a long enough timespan the house always wins.
Promises of room-temperature fusion machines in every home providing nearly-free energy for all.
I dont know about the rest of you but my Mr. Fusion works just fine. I mean, it just came out this year but I havent had many problems with it. hell, even sold my old one to some elderly guy and a kid driving around the town in an old delorean.
Guys, this is not a dick-sucking contest. If you want to parse PE binaries, go right ahead. If Red Hat wants to deep-throat Microsoft, that's *your* issue. That has nothing what-so-ever to do with the kernel I maintain. It's trivial for you guys to have a signing machine that parses the PE binary, verifies the signatures, and signs the resulting keys with your own key. You already wrote the code, for chissake, it's in that f*cking pull request.
By the time SCALE 11 hit, Matt was no longer working at redhat. people moved on. A Fork was always an option for Matthew...just perplexed as to why he decided to do it 2 years after...
https://github.com/chrisaljoud...
faster, more efficient, and doesnt have a guilty conscience about blocking ALL the ads.
while you're at it,
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/ho...
block advertisers by null routing them.
to stop people like Kim Davis, George Zimmerman or any number of cops "forced to resign" after opening fire on an unarmed person and facing no charges. Its all fun and games until the legal defense kickstarter campaigns for highly controversial amateur celebrities begins to drag your domain name through the dirt. Kickstarter did this to bring focus back to home made jam farms and soap companies. It did this to avoid becoming a GoDaddy.
Basically with the latter two modes I'd like to be able to switch between inputting to PC1 & DOCK1, whilst continuing to be able to monitor each by outputting each one's video to one of the 2 monitors. However, I also want to be able to go dual-screen with and control PC1 & PC2.
I guess a better question is 'what do you want to do?' It sounds like all 3 will need to be immediately accessible. switching quickly between the 3 would be cheapest if you purchased multiple keyboards, and mice. Identify the gaming machine, and if required give it 2 monitors. the rest can KVM traditionally through a single or have a dedicated number of monitors.
workload in general...you might want to address some consolidation issues if you find yourself requiring 3 graphical terminals. For example: if one is a BSD machine you could simply ssh or vnc into it.
I for one am worried were approaching this technology from only one side. We need to find an alcoholic, intellectual playboy with a debilitating terminal illness caused by an exotic, unstable power source permanently embedded in his chest.
seems like we see one of these every few months. maybe its true, but its hardly a problem we cant as americans drag our feet on. There are numerous practical reasons we have poor ipv6 penetration. not the least of which are:
understanding: greybeards and young guns alike in IT share an almost religious fear of IPv6 sometimes. Its a poltergeist most companies would care to avoid as well, as it would require hiring people who understand ipv6 as well as 4. not just the address, but how to route it, how to firewall it, and how to handle its DNS addressing. unless youre a firmly bunkered BOFH, youll have gaps in your understanding.
infrastructure: ipv6 has been in place at comcast and time warner for a while, but it requires DOCSIS 3 capable modems to handle the traffic and ipv6 capable wireless ap's in many cases. most americans who dont bask in the warm green glow of slashdot havent rushed out to buy a new modem when their current one is just as good. most cable companies were loathe to provide a free or subsidized upgrade (thats probably changed now that theyre common-carrier status) but it doesnt change the meat of the problem. To fix modems would require an upgrade not seen since we switched from analogue to digital broadcast television.
the web.: AWS sites still dont support ipv6. hosting providers like GoDaddy and Dreamhost have done a magnificent job of building out support but dedicated hosting solutions may still include legacy apache and nginx that dont speak 6. vendors like ironport speak ipv6 about as fluently as a slavic tourist, and in many cases proxy software and antispam actually reject ipv6 transported email as they cant handle reverse ipv6 lookups. many appliances rely entirely on hurricane or other public 6-2-4 proxes to maintain any semblance of support for the protocol. other companies like F5 networks have glorious support for ipv6, but few customers that care about it outside of cloud hosting providers.
do yourself a favour, learn it. Learn what it is and how it works, and make it a weekend project at home. youd be surprised how many people raise an eyebrow when you put 'ipv6' on your resume. For my countrymen here in the states, its coming. you cant stop it, and dual stack implementations already exist in your cellphones and public hotspots.
in terms of networking, most 48 volt injectors have caps to dump 'high' voltages. standard network switching however might not expect potentially disastrous voltages. At best, you might be able to fry a switch-worth of connectivity for a few hours or a day but id expect that would be it.
I ran into this problem in an industrial setting. part of the factory contained a particularly nasty unshielded induction furnace. the network card on the machine that controlled SCADA for that furnace had a cable run that was just close enough to pick up a current and fry about a motherboard a month. The solution was a fibre card, ironically provided by the furnace maker.