The task of managing network equipment located at remote branch offices presents an entirely different set of challenges than are normally encountered in general network management applications. For one thing, the ability to monitor conditions and events at the remote branch office is typically much more critical than it would be in an application where a local administrator is available to keep an eye on power supplies, phone lines and other factors in person. For another thing, branch office management often requires a degree of conformity between the various branch office sites on the corporate network; user access rights and passwords need to be the same at each site, and similar devices at each branch office must also be similarly configured.
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May 14th, 2012 | Tags: branch office management, Console Server, out of band management, SNMP, Switched PDU | Category: power + console hybrid | Leave a comment
I remember the first multi-player (people on different computers) video game I ever played, it was Wolfenstein 3D. Getting it working was not trivial, being before the internet got popular and set in Novell Netware’s heyday, you need an IPX/SPX device driver working to get the other Wolfenstein computers to link up. I loved the game on the Commodore 64 with its cheesy Achtung! gravely voice sound affects but it was awesome.
Today is Wolfenstein 3D’s twentieth birthday. It led to the blockbuster 3D games of Doom and Quake. You can play it here online and also the iPad version is free today.
Speaking of Nazi’s, no surprise that the Netherlands has passed a net neutrality law, they don’t have the RIAA or the MPAA heavily lobbying their politicians.
Microsoft is paying into a carbon offset program, meaning instead of burning coal they are burning money. Probably to keep Green Peace off their backs. Biggest scam in the world.
May 9th, 2012 | Tags: carbon offset, Microsoft, netherlands, Wolfenstein | Category: General, Technology | Leave a comment
I never liked Yahoo, even in its hey day I never liked them, mainly because of Jerry Yang. Not that is matters but we always rubbed me the wrong way. The only thing I hate more is a pushy Hedge Fund manager.
When Yahoo’s CEO Scott Thompson was caught padding his resume that is bad. It’s not like he said we worked at Starbucks for a month, he added a Computer Science degree from Stonehill college. Although on the other side of the fence you have Daniel Loeb, a Hedge fund manger and “Activist investor” which means all he wants is to either drive the stock price up or down, he doesn’t give a damn about the company itself.
So unfortunately I need to take the side of the liar, not the money grubbing Wall Street idiot who is out to make a quick buck.
May 8th, 2012 | Tags: Daniel Loeb, jerry yang, liar, Scott Thompson, yahoo | Category: General, Technology | Leave a comment
If you haven’t been following the Oracle vs. Google court case you should, this is a case that can affect a lot of things to come.
Basically what it boils down to is that Oracle says that an API (a programming interface call) can be copyrighted. If this is true, then we are all in for a lot of trouble, the lawyers will have a field day if this ruling goes through. Does the end customer win ? Do the innovators win? No, the lawyers will win big time, and it will drive up the cost of everything we buy with end less litigation.
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May 8th, 2012 | Tags: API, court, Google, oracle | Category: General, Technology | Leave a comment
I got blocked from viewing this website, its called www.bookshelfporn.com and you know what it is ? It’s a website showing really cool book shelves. Why does this site get blocked? Because people are stupid. You can blame any number of things, but filters and programs controlling your access to he internet are controls by people, that is an undeniable fact.
You think its bad at your company ? Try getting to website in a school. At my children’s school they have full internet blocking on YouTube and Images from Google search. So if you want to watch a John F. Kennedy speech, you can’t do it at school. You need to view it in the privacy of you home with the windows drawn. You want an image of a flower or a flash game that helps you with your capitals of the United States test? Once again, don’t expect to do that at school either.
I found out if only takes one person to complain to get something added to a school district internet blocking mechanism, I called to get the School’s district site on the list. I didn’t get a call back.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. If you can’t learn about the past, we are doomed.
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May 4th, 2012 | Tags: bookshelf, capitals, Kennedy, Untied States | Category: General, Technology | Leave a comment
In most modern businesses, the local area network is such an essential part of corporate infrastructure that when the network crashes or is unavailable, all activity at the business slows to a crawl as users desperately try to figure an alternative means to communicate with fellow workers and access files and services that are normally available via network. With this in mind, the wisdom of a network fallback solution and the importance of having some sort of plan that allows quick switchover to a secondary fallback network are hard to ignore.
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April 26th, 2012 | Tags: A/B fallback switch, RS232, RS422, secondary network, system redundancy | Category: A/B Fallback Switching | Leave a comment
I was looking at this old video of the Fender Guitar Factory in Fullerton, California in 1959. Notice how many OSCHA regulations that are being violated in 1959 compare to today. But on the other hand, back then they were made in the U.S. hmmm, some correlation ?
This dog sure must love music.
It’s funny how the DOJ is going after E-Book publishers for price fixing, something that has cost me about $5 In the past year, but they do nothing against the Oil and Wall Street companies which has cost me thousands of dollars in the past year. I guess E-Book publishers need more ex-politicians to lobby for them in Washington D.C..
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April 13th, 2012 | Tags: book, dog, DOJ, Fender Guitar | Category: General, Technology | Leave a comment
It took Apple almost a week before they finally released a patch for the Java exploit that was infecting Apple Computers.
The firm that found the exploit said he didn’t have contact information to use so they could inform Apple, unlike Microsoft were he knew who to contact. Lets hope Apple gave him their contact information.
April 13th, 2012 | Tags: apple, virus | Category: General, Technology | Leave a comment
Success is a two sided sword.
Apple got the success it craved and they got hit with their first real world virus on the Apple computer platform called Java for OS X 2012-002.
Over the years their Operating system was not necessarily better at defending viruses than other Operating Systems, it that they were not worth the effort of the hacker community.
Now they are
What lot of people don’t realize when they talk about how secure Apple is with their products, is the iPhone/iPad family are hacked days after release, but they don’t call it hacked, they call it jail broken devices. The only way to jail break a device ? Exploiting a defect in the firmware to break in, same as a hacker.
April 6th, 2012 | Tags: apple, hacked, ipad, iphone, java | Category: General, Technology | Leave a comment
The task of managing network devices can often be a real pain in the neck … especially if the network devices in question are located in a remote equipment rack rather than in the room next door. When vital network elements are located at distant, offsite facilities, network administrators are presented with an entirely different set of challenges than would normally be seen if those same devices were located within arm’s reach.
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April 4th, 2012 | Tags: Console Switch, DC powered console switch, remote DC network equipment, server console switch | Category: server console switch | Leave a comment
