Posts by cmaurand

Yawn

Is there anything new on the market? This is so meh.

If I'm a foreign country or the EU, I'd tell the us to pound sand it they attempt to serve the subpoena.

Slack?

What's that? Yawn

SMB and Microsoft

We should remember that IBM wrote SMB and that Microsoft screwed it up, but became the 800 lb gorilla that everyone had to go figure out what they did. It was originally called NetBIOS over IP, then Microsoft made changes and called it NetBEUI. Both are SMB.

Seriously?

The first amendment not withstanding, but why is it that this person wants to foist his beliefs on me? If he doesn't like porn, he doesn't have to look at it.

Pretty crappy performance numbers. Then again it's a spinning drive. The days of the spinning drive are numbered and the flash manufacturers are gouging the market. It cost's about $10.00 in parts and labor to put an SSD together (and that's being generous). I'm assuming the flash costs dollars and not pennies. No moving parts. It's just a matter of time before the spinning drive goes the way of the dinosaur.

There's not enough _young_ talent. There's lots of us more "senior" folks around who've been doing the job for a long time, but hey, you thought we were too expensive. But, hey, we write great code for kicks, now. In the meantime, companies import cheap talent (cheaper than they can get in a domestic recent college graduate) and put us out of work. I have no sympathy for them.

Indiana

Sorry for the correction. Governor of Indiana. Indianapolis is a city with an interesting speedway.

This is why I've been running powerdns and powerdns recursor for about a decade.

It knackers all sorts of things

The anniversary edition knackered more than just sage. I have problems with a few things and it's slower.

"Microsoft reckons it needs to rebuild Skype to improve call quality: once traffic has reached the Microsoft cloud, Redmond shuffles the bits between ingress and egress. To that extent, it can control call quality – but the user experience will still depend far more on their broadband connection, their ISP, and so on."

And how much bandwidth Microsoft has to throw at the millions of streams. Looks like I'm going to have to start looking for an alternative to Skype.

Even if I see an add, I won't click on it. so all they are is annoying little things on any page that I see. I won't even look at them. On the TV Ads that show up before a video, I mute the sound and minimize the window for however long the ad runs and then I restart the video. So to the advertisers, you're no more than an annoyance and I'm not looking anyway. You're better off doing product placement.

One fat fingered mistake and the world goes to hell. That's the problem with commandline thinking in the Cisco/Juniper world. Too easy to make a typo on the commandline and sink a bunch of ships.

If Dell thought there was any growth or profit there, they wouldn't be selling it off. The statements from Dell, Francisco Partners and Elliot Management are all spin.

Windows has always not slept well

Why should windows 10 be any different from any other version of windows? I have a full blown laptop that overheats in the bag. My laptop doesn't come back from long periods of sleep, either. It's just windows. Win XP, Win 7 and Win 8 & 8.1 all had the problem.

the thing is completely solid state. It takes, what, 10 seconds to boot up? Save your work, shut it down and save yourself the headache.

If you want a device that reliably sleeps, look to and Android or iOS device.

Ubuntu for phones is starting to look better and better.

The last time we use the ADSM it screwed up the device. The advice from our consultants was never, ever use it. For whatever reason, Cisco has never been able to get a GUI to work properly against their devices. No great loss that they didn't ship the software.

Want a good gui? Use Vyatta or PFSense on a decent pizza box. Way less expensive.

There's a well documented domain dispute policy that xorg will win and keep their domain. yawn.

Is it me or does this sound like a RSA token with bluetooth?

If this thing unlocks your devices by being in proximity, how are you even going to unlock the device without the key to remotely freeze the lost or stolen key in the first place?

I agree that passwords suck, but I don't think this is the answer, either.

The largest networks use Alcatel

Not Cisco. Look through a telco datacenter and you'll find lots of Alcatel and Lucent, not Cisco.

Of course

you can always turn it off.

still have one running xp

It's my media machine and until i finish getting th ladt little bit off of quickbooks it's going to stay xp. Eventually Linux will go on there.

put Linux on the kit

It'll run just fine.

there's a catch on MS

I think MS is going to give Win10 away for a year, then they are going to charge a subscription once you're hooked.

AMD

Nobody's talking about AMD which has had a 16 Core Opteron server chip out there for quite a while running at 2.8 GHz as well. Intel is playing catch up.

Symantec

doesn't stop anything new anyway so why worry?

Core vs. Socket

Looks to me like they want to start licensing by the core and not the socket driving up licensing costs. That should get folks to look for alternatives even faster than now since VMWare is pretty pricy. It makes Hyper-V look much better if you're a microsoft house. It makes KVM look better if you're a Linux house. Of course, lest we forget, the hypervisor is a Linux flavor after all.