Posts by Crazy Operations Guy

Re: I think they still need to make some cuts

Yeah, but what happens when your office grows and need more of one of those features? You are going to have to shell out quite a bit of cash to get a bigger device for all that, or a separate appliance and increase the cost of managing it all. This is where a lot of customers decide to ditch Cisco and go with ShoreTel, Palo Alto Networks, or whatever company is offering better prices; and why there is a pile of Cisco gear in my customers' offices.

While those routers offer good features and good performance on the inside, the WAN side is too slow to use at any of their locations, they've been growing rapidly and need more WAN bandwidth than the Cisco ISRs they have can offer. This is why I proposed the idea of a blade form factor for everything, the routers could have been kept in place and Cisco would have one more happy, loyal customer. Rather than buy all new equipment (And replace it all again in a year due to projected growth, spending even more), they went with HP's networking gear who were offering discounts steep enough that they could replace the HP kit every year for the next 5 years for the price of one replacement cycle with Cisco (HP offered such a steep discount due to the customer getting all their laptops, desktop, servers, printers, etc. through them)

Re: Price for the curious?

All of yours and those of your children and possibly your parents' too, if Fusion-IO's previous prices are anything to go by...

Re: How many times...

Whatever happened to 'Red Flag Linux' anyway? Wasn't that also based on Ubuntu?

Re: "< /dev/urandom"

I could use urandom, but then how am I going to get my customers to buy R2?

"female personality or it's bound to get a head ache"

Depends on which definition of 'head ache' you are using...

Re: Wow!

Even 256 GBs is ridiculous for an SMB. I've seen SMBs where all of their servers combined added up to about 256 GB of RAM. Although I suppose it depends on what qualifies as an 'SMB'...

Re: The final solution

Exactly my thought. I've been seeing a lot of shops installing self-checkout systems in response to increasing wages and other staffing costs.

Its even easier to implement automation in a warehouse since most items are in a regularly shaped box and would be trivial for a robotic arm to grab it. Attach an arm to a rail on the top of the shelves and a conveyor belt along the bottom of the shelves. Add another set of arms and conveyor belts to automate the stocking process. Add unique RF-ID tags or bar-codes to every item and you could potentially automate the packaging process as well.

All you'd need is a couple laborers to handle packing of irregular items, a few technicians to fix an maintain machinery, a manager or two to watch over the people and some security guards; monitoring of the machinery can be done via a bunch of cameras and other sensors watched over by an off-shore team.

The only reason humans are still being used for these tasks is that they are cheaper than robots, but that balance will tip in favor of machines in not too much time.

Re: Flies Over the Great Wall

They'll just shoot them down, they've already demonstrated that they can[1]. They could also hack into the control units of the things and de-orbit them, or jam/DoS the up-link and/or down-link. There are many other things they can do.

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6289519.stm

Re: Apple

That is what I've always hated about Apple's systems: hiding things form the user. It seems their UI model is: "Don't worry your pretty little head about that, here play with these shiny bits instead"

Re: Bah!

The group has written permission from all the various agencies and owners of this satellite to take control of it. So long as they don't do anything nefarious with it like ramming it into something or cause interference with other spacecraft, they'll be fine legally.

Re: What's wrong with these people?

I was going to say the same thing. They committed to completing this years ago, or at least HL2:Ep3 (didn't they say they were switching to the episode model to avoid this exact situation?). I can't count all the boondoggles they wasted time on, off the top of my head, there is the Linux initiative and the 'Big Picture' feature. Adding more features is all well and good, but you should at least complete your commitments first.

May whatever god they believe in help them should they ever try to go public, missing important commitments and spending resources on profit-less projects like this is a sure way to end up with a share price of zero and the FTC/SEC/IRS/SS/DoJ crawling up your ass for fraud and misconduct.

Re: Easier than doing real journalism

No, CNN is too busy covering Donald Sterling. Who cares about 250 people when a celebrity did something?

Re: Monitored house alarms.

SIMs are also in traffic lights, environmental sensors, power control systems, emergency vehicles, buses, Telco roadside boxes, etc. You also have this Internet-of-Things fad that is taking a lot of SIM cards as well. You also have GSM-to-Serial port adapters for managing remote networking devices.

And this is just what I've seen today, there are a lot more applications.

Re: need a new agency...

I know its a joke, but, yeah we certainly need something like that. Although it might be better as an international group with cooperation from IANA/ICANN and Interpol. Probably build it out of employees from various security companies and ISPs with an oversight organization filled with Government employees from the US's FCC, UK's OfCom, etc.

Re: "One extra step"

The people I would want to be able to access the file are barely technically literate enough to open the file, adding that extra step of figuring out which file to rename is just going to cause problems and delays. This is also why I only have two files on the shared device: The password database and a portable copy of KeePass. It becomes pretty obvious what the database file is. I did this so that if the KeePass project dies or the file format changes too much, they can still access the database without any trouble.

Besides, I change all my passwords every 90 days (You get used to it after a while), if a attacker has the capability to crack the file in that little time, they wouldn't be stopped by a triviality like a changed file extension. I haven't done anything to get anyone with those kinds of resources to waste that much of them on me, of course they would just go the easy way and get an (illegal) court order from the FISC and get my data right form the source.

Re: Alternatively...

I already use an non-android device, and yet there are still security vulnerabilities and malware.

Every platform sucks for one reason or another. With Apple you are pretty much just renting it from them; Android is highly variable between manufacturers and TelCos; Windows Phone means that if I want to have work e-mail on my phone, the phone is now pretty much property of my company; and Blackberry might not be around tomorrow. And all of these platform have security vulnerabilities, Android is just prevalent so it gets reported more often.

Re: Sitting on the 9.0.0.0/8 here

Something tells me that HP won't need both 15.0.0.0/8 *and* 16.0.0.0/8 (acquired from DEC via Compaq) And then there are the huge ranges the US military has when its all on private lines and has very rarely been seen on the Public Internet.

I can understand a large cloud provider like Amazon needing that many, but certainly not the likes of Du Pont, Ford or Xerox.