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Rubrik to hit enterprise with double whammy

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Waiting for these guys to file IPO

I have interviewed with them a couple of years ago. Haven't met one guy in them who could give the clear picture of what they do. All were just the people who practiced algorithm interview questions.

Had seen a page long ago where they boast about recruiting people from Google, Facebook and Amazon.

https://www.cnbc.com/2015/03/27/how-ex-googlers-are-building-the-computing-future.html

Not sure, why they want to build themselves on this non-fact that a good company stamp is not the criteria to find good engineers. Anyways, eagerly waiting for their IPO or some thing else.

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Get hyped: Cisco makes $320m intentions known to startup Springpath

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Re: Storage is doomed

hope you made some money (sure, you are a Springpath guy)

looks like, these backend technologies are not the right place to make money

Come on Cisco

be a bit fair on these guys

320? do you even remember what you paid to AD ?

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UK ministers to push anti-encryption laws after election

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Re: good idea but seriously

That's not what 'socialism' is.

His dream, and a human utopia, would be to cater to everybody in the aim of fairness; providing appropriate hospital and mental health treatment, cater for homelessness, eradicate poverty and ensure that you are not the victim of the mistakes of your parents.

Aiming the trend towards the above - given the above is just a utopia - really is possible.

His policies and the Labour manifesto mimic the Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish and Danish model. Those countries are NOT as you describe.

Can you therefore explain this paradox?

You are wrong. Go travel Scandinavia and you will resolve your prejudice.

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Samsung battery factory bursts into flame in touching Note 7 tribute

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This guy may have been involved. http://www.techtree.com/sites/default/files/2016/9/11.jpg

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Cancel! that! yacht! order! Marissa! – Verizon's! still! cold! on! Yahoo! gobble!

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Re: Topsy turvy world

The stock went up despite her, not because of her. That was 100% AliBaba Investment which she had NOTHING to do with. It really annoys me when people who have no understanding of the situation make such comments.

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Why your gigabit broadband lags like hell – blame Intel's chipset

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Re: Is there an OS in the modem itself?

sure, if you just spend some time looking....

in fact its an OLD linux, if you are to take the required ARRIS OSS releases as the normal operations see

https://sourceforge.net/directory/os:windows/?q=SURFboard%20SB6190

as you can see ,

"The SURFboard SB6190 is a DOCSIS 3.0 modem is capable of download speeds up to 1.4 Gbps!

Last Updated: 2016-07-06"

however, if you look into the download you can see they seem to be saying there's also a TI Arm version of the SB6190 ,as we already know, the 32channel DOCSIS* 3.0 Intel® Puma™ 6 SoC are (underpowered and lacking even generic AVX in 2016,as the SoC cpu is already 3 years old today apparently) Intel® Atom™ Processor.

the question remains, does the latest Puma™ 6 SoC with later firmware than the above link

"OSS components of SB6190 Cable Modem

FW Version 9.1.93D"

also use an ancient 6 year linux build and Toolchain, without all the fixes and security advisories unpatched or even optimised for todays upcoming DVB>IP (as per the extension of the existing sat>IP kit on sale today) aka the SH3 and derivatives.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/sb6190.arris/files/?source=navbar

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well, it seems that at least virgin media over 12 months ago, took the many reported problems as found by the select testers, and simply binned it all, and just rolled out the SH3 on mass to bring us to today's massive SH3 problems as regards underpowered intel Soc cpu doing all the packet handling, instead of passing these intensive operations to the included packet engine, how good that engine actually is is a mystery and its yet to be proven as a benefit for the paying consumer, but its required ASAP in the UK as virgin media is the only viable option for faster internet OC.

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Re: Not been impressed with my SH3

yes , this is also a known problem so called 'Hub 3.0 port flapping' as in even when you switch these VM SH3 into modem only mode, the same high pings,TCP,UDP etc exists AND you also get this other bug manifesting ...

The SH3's Port1 plugged into a ethernet port (ether1) on any router,where Everything works fine for about 30 minutes, and then the super hub shuts down its ethernet port for about 30-60 seconds, then brings it back up.

thats the other problem that,s still to be fixed, as relates to your SH3 being connected to some VM cards in their racks... so again you get disconnected from your game server when this happens, so making the existing 200Mbit/s gamer option rather lame and currently not fit for purpose if you are upgrading for the holidays this year it seems, unless all these related MS chipset fix's are expedited PDQ...

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Re: VM to gig BB in the UK

diodesign, this Virgin media problem as the only real cable operator in the UK, is far larger than it would seem as they dont allow you to connect any non VM CPE kit...

and are Insisting that all vm customers that take the 'VIVID 200 Gamer' option or above as per the current 300Mbit/s package, Must take the one and only 'Superhub 3.0' Compal CH7465-LG (TG2492LG) & CGNV4 etc docsis3 box, as their only option, and apparently, VM tech/managers are refusing to lift the apparent VM swap-embargo on these SH3 and take the older Superhub 2 ACs as a fix today....

while its hard to actually pin down the exact chip spec and RAM (can you confirm and add the direct url) it seems that these intel docsis Soc are far to underpowered today, and dont even include generic intel AVX SIMD instructions in 2016, and yet the totally underpowered CPU core is actually doing all the UDP/TCP packet work etc alone....

is that a BOM problem today, as in all the world's Docsis3 cable operators are trying to save pennies , where a current and up to date (Arm Cortex?) quad/octacore with DVB/sat>IP ,UHD1/UHD2 rec 2020 ,HDR compliant integrated SOC's are required today ready for 2017/2020 Docsis 3.0/3.1.

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CSC straps another 100 jobs to redundo cannon, lights fuse, walks off

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Re: Not being prepared for sale but...

Merging?

CSC have purchased HP Enterprise Services. That's not a merger - CSC are acquiring HP ES!

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Chinese CA hands guy base certificates for GitHub, Florida uni

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Re: You can't trust anybody

@Jon37: but to work with most browsers you need to install a plug-in to have DANE, afaik https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dnssec-validator/feijekkdahhnjbhpiffgejphmokchdbo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS-based_Authentication_of_Named_Entities#Support

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'Feature-complete' Windows Server 2016 preview 5 lands

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Feature-Complete?

Feature-Complete? One of the features that is supposed to be in Server 2016 which Microsoft have been touting for years was "Soft Restart" which still hasn't been implemented.. They had added the "/Soft" switch to the shutdown command but it doesn't do anything, a regular restart is still performed irregardless of the switch.

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Boffins achieve 'breakthrough' in random number generation

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Re: Next big question

Reminds me of the old book ciphers when you used more than one book. :)

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Dead Steve Jobs owed $174 by San Francisco parking ticket wardens

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Why VCs don't get tickets....

They're all way way too drunk to drive. Judging from my friend (a SF VC), being a Venture Capitalist is a lot like being homeless, except you get to have money.

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OpenSSL patch quashes rare HTTPS nasty, shores up crypto chops

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"The high severity bug (CVE-2016-0701) revealed by Adobe engineer Antonio Sanso"

Why is an Adobe engineer working on this? Surely they should be hard at work patching Flash.

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Hot-patching method melts security hole in Apple's App Store

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From what I've read so far, it sounds like a fundamental failure in iOS itself, because it's supposed to be checking apps and sideloaded modules are signed.

Regardless of whether an app is hotpatched or a not, the result should still be a signed app, right? And if someone tried to exploit JSPatch to modify an app, it would result in something that can't be verified, right?

And also, why does JSPatch need clipboard access? Or do all apps get access to that for free?

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