Nrsolis

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by Nrsolis 16y ago
OK. That was funny.
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by Nrsolis 16y ago
I have personal experience with a company that moved off of Linux because they couldn't get decent enough hardware to handle their load. We could trade examples all day long. The OP made a comment about web pages with pricing. My point wa
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by Nrsolis 16y ago
Hey, companies try new things all the time and then retreat when they realize that it's counter to the direction the rest of the organization wants to go. I'm willing to bet that some people felt that moving to an online sales model was a
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by Nrsolis 16y ago
They might have had list pricing but I never saw that page. When we wanted a confit from Sun, we called our account manager and they did a config/quote for us. We also never paid list pricing.
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by Nrsolis 16y ago
So they didn't care about your business, right? That just means you're not their target customer, right? They didn't seem to lose mindshare with the customers that they were serving now did they? I'm not Boeing's target market. It doesn'
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by Nrsolis 16y ago
You're not honestly comparing Sun hardware with Dell, right? You really think that Dell+Linux was competition for Sun? Sun was selling to a particular customer that demanded rock solid stability. If Linux had never happened, Dell servers w
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by Nrsolis 16y ago
You probably don't buy much equipment. Keep this in mind: most companies that sell to enterprise and service provider customers aren't looking to make money with their website. Their SALESPEOPLE are there to properly qualify the leads and
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Richard Stallman defends Anonymous DDoS attacks. (m.guardian.co.uk)
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by Nrsolis 16y ago
That's an incredibly badly written article. I fail to discern any intelligible point of view from the author.
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by Nrsolis 16y ago
Of course it does. But I do think it's worthwhile to take measure of how important a particular piece of software is to our collective security and privacy. It's not necessarily a bad thing for interested parties to not completely trust th
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by Nrsolis 16y ago
That's not entirely true. 3D graphics on PCs was slow until cheap GPUs became commonplace. The new ATCA-based systems are a big step forward in making what was traditionally a function run on NEBS-compliant PCs using hacked up Squid proxies
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by Nrsolis 16y ago
Don't count this technology out. There is a lot of pressure to take the money loser services like Public IP transport and turn it into a real money maker. Charging by the bit has been on the radar for a long time and there is a significa
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by Nrsolis 16y ago
This is at least some precedent to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG Don't discount the (admittedly unlikely) possibility that there was some cooperation in making sure that any /possible/ backdoors were done by people with REA
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by Nrsolis 16y ago
There are a lot of books on the subject and I've read quite a few of them. Like most things, different perspectives led different people to arrive at different conclusions about what led to the crisis. Put very simply, the folks in charge (
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by Nrsolis 16y ago
Inside job is a bit sensationalistic. That said, you can probably learn a decent amount by reading a book called "Hedgehogging.". It goes into some of the cultural aspects of finance. Just keep in mind that "trading" is all about having a b
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by Nrsolis 16y ago
Filtering of DDoS attacks is moving into the network. The days of sorting attack traffic at the destination have always been numbered. Current best practice has been to use technologies like FLOWSPEC to get the traffic off the network much
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by Nrsolis 16y ago
GOOG isn't offering FiOS. That's a Verizon thing. A passive optical network with asymmetric bandwidth thing. What GOOG is doing is a single fiber per house going all the way back to a CO.
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by Nrsolis 16y ago
They? I think the better question is what kind of applications are enabled and what that revenue model looks like. How does that revenue stream get allocated between network and app provider?
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by Nrsolis 16y ago
I'm not so sure how I feel about this. On one hand, this is a direct shot across the bow of the cablecos/telcos. By essentially taking the roadmap of bandwidth expansion via slow, rolling upgrades over a long long period of time and going
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by Nrsolis 16y ago
I'm not going to get into specifics but I'd like to address your points. The problem of distinguishing between legitimate traffic and attack traffic gets harder when the attack starts to look more like legitimate traffic. It doesn't get im
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by Nrsolis 16y ago
I dunno. I enjoy a collaborative work environment. I was sufficiently spooked by their environment that I choked on a little practical exam they had set up as part of the interview process. Anyhow...I didn't get THAT job, but I did get a B
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by Nrsolis 16y ago
Routers don't do SYN proxying. SYNs are just regular packets and are passed along to a host. FIREWALLs on the other hand, might use a SYN to make an entry in a table that's used to track connection state. That table might be overloaded by
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by Nrsolis 16y ago
This is not true. I work for a major DDoS mitigation equipment company and we see SYN floods all the time. And you CAN block one million users from all opening up one connection. Our software/hardware makes this happen. There are MANY MAN
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by Nrsolis 16y ago
It wasn't that. The office in the area I was looking at was SMALL. That wasn't so much an issue but the vibe of the place was almost like a library.
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by Nrsolis 16y ago
I interviewed with Salesforce and I have to tell you that I found their culture a bit ....weird. It's something I couldn't put my finger on but I just had the feeling that they were all in some sort of cult or something. I didn't get the j
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by Nrsolis 16y ago
It looks like this guy just reimplemented the worst parts of ATM (directory lookups don't scale) without any of the good parts (predictable bandwidth guarantees).
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by Nrsolis 16y ago
Having your app own3d is a pretty good way to learn how NOT to do crypto.
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by Nrsolis 16y ago
Point noted. I don't review cryptosystems for a living. I guess my point was that most of the cryptosystems /I've/ used over the years have seen significant vulnerabilities exposed in key management and side channel attacks. Insufficient
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by Nrsolis 16y ago
Not only is it legit but it's a kind of attack that is very closely studied because theory != practice. MOST crypto systems fail because they implement a very solid algorithm/protocol in a very bad way. My experience has been that cryptogr
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by Nrsolis 16y ago
We could call it MinesSQL.

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