Posts by Fatman

Are you missing a tag?

What does the speed of your internal network have to do with the speed of your external connection?

I was wondering, did you forget the <sarcasm> tag???

The other alternative is that you have a limited experience with networking, and you have failed to realize that if one is streaming video from an external connection, if it has less throughput than your internal network, it WILL be a limiting factor.

Re: they are an IT company

The trick for me, was to point out that BCP and DR plans invariably relied on restoring the IT infrastructure, and to ask what plans we had for working indefinitely without IT support.

Of course this will run counter to the shareholders pressure to offshore, outsource, and diminish. But the sudden realisation that IT is a critical infrastructure should give you scope to include such things in your risk register. With reference to the spectacular consequences (RBS et all) of failing.

But you can't do that as it does not increase shareholder value.

Secondly, manglement would not care one bit about DR and business continuity because they are quite likely to be gone before the shit hits the fan. it is the girls and boys in the trenches that have to worry about such things. They are going to be the ones that will have to clean up the mess left by the `Seagulls`.

Re: Speed of electrons

I can just imagine audiophools listening to their music with vacuum spaced ethernet cables while a pump chugs away to maintain the vacuum while connected to their vacuum tube (i.e. 'valve' for you Brits) amplifier.

FOOLS and their money are quickly parted!!!

Re: I miss the old days

What next? I'm hoping for

4.x ... Microsoft abandons its own OS kernel, adopts Linux.

Choose any common expression of something that has a probability of less than 1 in 100 billion, and you have the chance of that happening. Just being realistic, here.

Re: Mechanoids

No, how about a Cherry 2000???

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092746/

Re: SCADA is only an issue when manglement runs[1] the network, instead of network engineers..

You have left out an important letter in this statement:

SCADA is only an issue when manglement runs[1] the network, instead of network engineers..

The corrected version (missing letter included) is:

SCADA is only an issue when manglement ruIns[1] the network, instead of network engineers..

There! better!

Re: Blah, blah, fscking blah!

Hey man, I like your style!!!!!

Re: What I want to know is...

...why the U.S. government consumer protection agencies such as the Federal Trade Commission, the state attorneys general, the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Consumer Credit Reporting authority have not prosecuted Comcast for the litany of documented violations of law?

Short answer: Campaign Contributions

WTF did you expect from a bought and paid for government?

Re: Hope they win.

... who've bought into their VoIP service have found the cable modem contains a $35 battery which we have to replace ourselves at our cost when it fails in order to continue having phone service during a power outage! Their equiptment they should umaintain!

Which is why I told Verizon to Fuck Off when they tried to foist a FiOS upgrade on me. I had already heard about that one from a business acquaintance who got stung!

Re: Why land on a barge?

Because, if things get fucked up, you don't have the risk of the damn rocket landing on a bunch of people which could happen if you attempted a land based 'splashdown' so early on in the 'game'

Remember, they are sailing into 'uncharted territory' WRT landing and re-using the first stage, and accidents are expected. It would be a disaster (metaphorically, as well as literally) if people were killed or severely injured as a result of a catastrophe. SpaceX doesn't have Government Immunity to cover its ass in the event of shitloads of civil lawsuits for 'damages'.

So, a water landing it should be until they get the bugs out.

Re: "...this will provide between 15 and 60 minutes warning before the particles reach us..."

Maybe to hit the power "off" switch and shut down the grid... oh wait. That will take down FB and then there will be: "a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."

Nope, but office worker productivity might spike for a while!

RE: Basement located fuel tanks

All that was in the basement - as required by building regs - was the fuel tanks and pumps.

IIRC¹, reading elsewhere, that one of those such afflicted companies ended up getting a bucket brigade of workers to haul 5 gallon buckets of diesel fuel up 17 flights of stairs.....

¹ Now I remember: http://www.computerworld.com/article/2493111/data-center/huge-customer-effort-keeps-flooded-nyc-data-center-running.html

Re: Better than tha last one?

What's the purpose of foil backing anyway?

A quick guess would be heat reflection. When I was a kid, and during an attic remodel of my old house in Chicago, we used foil backed insulation in the rafter bays. I clearly remember the wording of the instructions that was printed on the foil face of the insulation: install this side toward winter heated space.

In my current house (built in 1956), there is foil faced insulation in the walls.

Re: "This won't take us down. You should not be worried about the future of this studio."

It's times like this that I wish "Google Translate" had a "Business Bullshit-to English" or "Marketing PR Spin/Lies-to-English" option.

FTFY!!!!

Re: Cyber Bullying or a Paradox?

If there is any woman under your table, I hope she has a pair of scissors machete and knows how to use them it.

FTFY!!!

Re: not very big

Losing BOTH engines in this scenario would be quite an achievement!

IIRC, quite some time back, a 727 lost all three engines, and yet was able to land safely, no doubt in part to a well skilled pilot.

Re: Common sense

It is a different matter altogether for online purchases. You have to ascertain where the customer lives and keep track of 9600 tax codes.

EXACTLY, and, there is the extreme possibility, that due to the way municipal boundaries may arise, two addresses that are adjacent to one another may be in different municipalities.

Or one side of a street is in municipality A and the other side of the street is in municipality B. Then, consider the metropolitan areas, where the county line may run down the middle of a street; or the possibility where a state line runs down the middle of a street.

Hello nightmare!!!! You might have to have an address database that contains all of the 'exceptions' to the rules.

Re: Pull the other one!...Let's deconstruct that a bit.

Let's deconstruct that a bit. "If you don't buy my product, then you should be fired".

I believe that there is an extraneous word in that quote, and I will leave it to the reader to determine which word I am referring to.

Re: Computer stupidities...

Sometimes I just can not fathom the level of stupidity that supposedly educated people exhibit when it comes to computers.

I have had my share of urgent calls for help that, upon reflection were easily solved/understood; but the fact that a computer is involved, the caller has a dramatic leave of their senses.

A recent one involved a frantic call on a Saturday morning. Ms. (L)user calls me from her cell phone demanding to know when am I going to fix her computer - it doesn't work, and the office lights are out. I remote into the building's management system, and see that the power is completely out, and only essential systems are operating on a backup generator. I call the power company, and find out, that due to a semi hitting a pole, the feeder line to the entire area is down, and it will be at least 2 more hours before power will be restored.

I call Ms. (L)user back, and tell her to 'go home' as she will be sitting there doing nothing for at least 2 hours while the downed line is repaired.

THAT WASN'T GOOD ENOUGH!! and she called my boss (the CIO) and screamed and yelled at her. My boss (I later found out) did exactly the same thing I did, and got the same answer, and told Ms. (L)user exactly the same.

THAT STILL WASN'T GOOD ENOUGH!!, so she called up the CEO (who also happens to be a part owner of the company), and bitched at her: We (me and my boss) were not helping her with her computer problems.

BIG mistake! I happen to work for a company where the CEO does have some tech smarts; she remoted into the management system, and saw exactly what we saw: all three phases dead on the line side of the main circuit breaker. She too called the power company, and got the same response from them. She (the CEO) called Ms. (L)user back, and told her that repairs was going to take all day, and that she should go home. and that she (the CEO) wanted to discuss the manner in which IT provided its "services" to her first thing Monday morning.

Monday morning came, and Ms. (L)user, my boss and I were summoned to the CEO's office. Ms. (L)user was invited to "express" her issues with the way we had provided our services.

Ms. (L)user narrated her interactions with me to the CEO. I was asked a simple question: "Is this a correct recitation of the events?" Since it was, I answered in the affirmative. Ms. (L)user then did the same for my boss, who also indicated that the recitation was accurate. Of course, the CEO knew exactly what was said between herself and Ms. (L)user. What happened next was absolutely beautiful (from a 'getting satisfaction' perspective).

The CEO stood up, and looked Ms. (L)user straight in the face and screamed at the top of her lungs: "What part of `there has been a major area wide power failure, and repairs will take some time DO YOU NOT FUCKING UNDERSTAND???`

Ms. (L)user sat there with a 'deer in the headlights expression' on her face.

"I think your 'talents' are better suited for a job where the only knowledge you are required to possess is the ability to ask the person on the other side of the counter: `Do you want fries with that?` Clear out your desk, you don't work here anymore."

My CEO is of the opinion that in order to work for our company, you need to possess some basic skills, and Ms. (L)user seems to be deficient in that area, and the manner in which she handled the situation strongly suggested that she was not capable of `being educated`. Good riddance!

Re: What a farce

Does the FCC really believe the public is going to fall for these obvious lies?

It is all about traffic flows, and the path the traffic takes. I have posted a traceroute from my location to netflix:

Hop Hostname IP Time 1

1 toy-box-2.local 192.168.1.4 0.098

1 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.1 0.637

1 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.1 0.645

3 72-31-xxx-xxx.net.bhntampa.com 72.31.xxx.xxx 13.217

4 ten1-0-0.tamp82-cts1.bhn.net 71.44.17.18 21.675

5 ten0-1-0-3-4.tamp20-car1.bhn.net 71.44.3.16 19.709

6 ten0-13-0-0.orld71-CAR1.bhn.net 71.44.1.209 20.106

7 72-31-188-174.net.bhntampa.com 72.31.188.174 18.780

8 10.bu-ether15.orldfljo00w-bcr00.tbone.rr.com 66.109.6.98 22.116

9 bu-ether18.atlngamq47w-bcr01.tbone.rr.com 66.109.1.72 39.166

10 107.14.17.188 107.14.17.188 28.116

11 67.106.215.89.ptr.us.xo.net 67.106.215.89 27.396

12 vb2001.rar3.nyc-ny.us.xo.net 207.88.13.10 88.763

13 te-3-0-0.rar3.dallas-tx.us.xo.net 207.88.12.2 85.409

14 vb12.rar3.la-ca.us.xo.net 207.88.12.46 83.696

15 207.88.14.234.ptr.us.xo.net 207.88.14.234 83.911

16 216.156.84.6.ptr.us.xo.net 216.156.84.6 81.967

17 xe-2-2-0-955.jnrt-edge02.prod1.netflix.com 69.53.225.30 83.618

18 te1-8.csrt-agg02.prod1.netflix.com 69.53.225.10 84.773

19 netflixinc.com 69.53.236.17 83.532

As you can see, and if this were to represent a movie download, traffic flows from Netflix through XO Communications to end up at my ISP (BrightHouse). Also, look how it gets bounced around within XO's network. All of these segments are places for contention, and there are at least 2 instances where transit and peering come into play (Netflix -> XO, and XO -> BrightHouse). Transit costs money, and out of balance peering can lead to disputes (Cogent, anyone?)

Joe Sixpack can't get that because Joe Sixpack has SHIT for brains, and is incapable of dissecting the issue, which, I am sorry to say, is quite muddled; and due to inaccurate and misleading information posted on the web, not as cut and dried as many think.

NOW, if Netflix had a direct connection to BrightHouse, then the traceroute might look like this (it would depend on where the two would interconnect):

Hop Hostname IP Time 1

1 toy-box-2.local 192.168.1.4 0.098

1 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.1 0.637

1 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.1 0.645

3 72-31-xxx-xxx.net.bhntampa.com 72.31.xxx,.xxx 13.217

4 ten1-0-0.tamp82-cts1.bhn.net 71.44.17.18 21.675

5 ten0-1-0-3-4.tamp20-car1.bhn.net 71.44.3.16 19.709

6 ten0-13-0-0.orld71-CAR1.bhn.net 71.44.1.209 20.106

7 72-31-188-174.net.bhntampa.com 72.31.188.174 18.780

8 10.bu-ether15.orldfljo00w-bcr00.tbone.rr.com 66.109.6.98 22.116

9 bu-ether18.atlngamq47w-bcr01.tbone.rr.com 66.109.1.72 39.166

10 xe-2-2-0-955.jnrt-edge02.prod1.netflix.com 69.53.225.30 83.618

11 te1-8.csrt-agg02.prod1.netflix.com 69.53.225.10 84.773

12 netflixinc.com 69.53.236.17 83.532

Which would cut XO out of the loop, and move the traffic flow from Netflix -> BrightHouse. BrightHouse may see relief in its transit/peering arrangements with XO.

Netflix almost certainly pays XO for transit, so Netflix may see a reduction in its transit costs; but the real winners is the rest of the traffic that flows through that path. It would not have to contend with the volume of traffic from Netflix clogging an already crowded lane.

So, I have to ask the FCC: "How is this a bad dea????"

Re: We are reaching manglement orbit. Prepare to disembark!

Right idea, but wrong on the exit strategy. It should be:

"Please put away your trays, and return your seats to the upright position. Buckle your seat belts and be prepared to pull the ejector lever in the event of air craft disintegration. Once again, thank you for flying Pwned Airlines."

Re: still have a backdoor though right?

So its OK for someone to get your Phone, and by proxy your gmail / iTunes accounts? Not sure about the latter, but the former can be used to purchase BIG TICKET Items like Phablets or that Google Glass that I've been hearing so much about lately.

Which was the point I was trying to get across to a colleague who is half my age (BTW, I qualify as a `greybeard`).

He thought Apple Pay was a Good Idea and I called him out on it.

RE: This looks like marketing puff.

I very well may be, but there is s shitload of OLD plant that could benefit from increasing speed.

For the beancounters, replacing NICs and speccing better NICs on equipment refresh may be more cost conscious than ripping up plant, especially IF it involves ripping out plant in leased premises.

No beancounter trying to fund executive bonuses is going to authorize a rip and replace on premises that have a short term left on a lease, with no guarantee that their company will be able to obtain favorable lease terms for a renewal.

Typical short term thinking executive behavior - kick the can down the road.

Re: Sony, too

This would have been a great way to get to Sony,

RIGHT!!!!!

I had a good laugh at their 'spinning' their incompetence in securing their systems into a hack by the Norks.

Hey Sony, Karma is such a bitch!!

BTW, didn't one of your label's artists have a song titled Karma (Alicia Keys, IIRC Here, take a listen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUMC_raxpSc ).

No good deed goes unpunished!

Re: MS Windows

Never mind the websites. Microsoft use device fingerprinting to enforce their Windows licences.

Is that to become illegal?

DAMN good question.

It is already well publicized that with some versions of Windows WindblowZE, certain changes in hardware configuration causes WGA (or whatever they call that piece of shit these days) to spout warnings about being non-genuine. (hint: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Genuine_Advantage#False_positive_rate )

BUT I would not hold my breath, I am sure that accommodations for software integrity mechanisms will be forthcoming.

Re: and Ghostery tells me,

Excellent!!!

ANOTHER satisfied user of AdBlock+'s Element Hider!!!

One fabulous way to make those plastered with crap ads sites usable!