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by trout 14y ago
I thought the exact opposite from the article. I decoupled the idea that a funeral was an emotional or cultural event with something that is a long time survival technique. We place a value in funerals from a cultural level, but forget that
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by trout 14y ago
This lead me to my new favorite uncylopedia article: http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Murphy%27s_law_applicatio... I lost it here "The cat and gluing dispositive will actually come together, but the cat spins so fast due to the invarian
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by trout 14y ago
Lots of reasons. From a security perspective - IPv6 SLAAC (sort of like DHCP) does this - it uses the MAC as the last 48 bits of the 128 bit address. However, this is largely seen as a security problem things like RFC 4941 [1] have argued
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by trout 14y ago
I've thought about how many more places I would be willing to bike to if I could just hop on the freeway with my bike. We have an event every year where they allow you to, and it's a tease.
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by trout 14y ago
I work with a pretty decent chunk of the fortune 500, and I would disagree. What I've seen is an aversion to the iPads, but there are certain places where they can't keep them out. If wireless is authenticated on AD or PSK, it's very diffic
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by trout 14y ago
The one piece of advice I curated from the many articles I read and have put into practice is: "Make it easy". I moved all the things I need to exercise into one place, streamlined the entire process, and reduced the mental inertia it takes
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by trout 14y ago
The 'recently closed tabs' feature in recent browsers also makes closing your session more difficult. A few years ago it was considered good practice to close your window after checking your account. Now it is just a click in the browser
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by trout 14y ago
You still have the challenge of choosing a base system. Remember we are base 10 simply because of biology. Our alien friends may be on a different number base because they have 7 fingers.
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by trout 14y ago
A NIC that talks ethernet doesn't mean it's in the hardware. It's more about the ASICs on the ports to handle high traffic rates. The NIC can send the packet on the wire, but inserting the IPv6 headers is done in hardware with ASICs. Thi
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by trout 14y ago
802.11ac also hasn't been ratified yet, so it's a pre-standard and not guaranteed to work with the final version. This happened with some of the earlier standards but lately it hasn't been much of a problem. http://www.ieee802.org/11/Repo
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by trout 14y ago
What's interesting is the NERC CIP push from federal to get power distribution devices onto a common IP network. I'm a bit fuzzy on the details, but there are major incentives and/or regulations to doing this, and it's a pretty important i
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by trout 14y ago
I've made a few changes to securing mine with 2 factor. 1. Altered the digits in my wallet so only I know how to recover the real numbers. 2. Created a junk email with a secure password with a security-through-obscurity email with the numbe
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by trout 14y ago
The basic idea of OpenFlow is getting the manufacturers to split between making good software and good hardware. If you make great hardware you can continue to operate, someone else will control the forwarding decisions. If you want to ma
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by trout 14y ago
I'm a networking guy, and wouldn't consider myself a hardware person by any means. Sure, I'm not a coder, but I don't think it's accurate to call it hardware. Very little network engineering is hardware specific. Hardware goes bad, and the
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by trout 14y ago
There's a lot of hype here. Most of what they're claiming to be their product is just the direction of the datacenter industry. The idea of routing L2 over L3 (VXLAN, OTV, NVGRE) and new hypervisor switches isn't earth shattering, simply
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by trout 14y ago
They are also the leaders in vdi, competing with VMware.
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by trout 15y ago
It sounds like the plight of one of my coworkers. He started on a team that had to know significant details about how dial up worked. This was great work when dial up was big. One aspect to dial up were fax calls, and nobody wanted to wo
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by trout 15y ago
http://www.dogpile.com/ is still out there too. I wonder who their demographic is. What type of person still uses dogpile or lycos? Is it hardcoded somewhere?
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by trout 15y ago
NAC, sticky mac, max mac/port, trusted DHCP, root guard, bpdu guard, multicast and broadcast storm control, they're all features that can help. Most people don't enable all of them because of management overhead, but each solves a problem t
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by trout 15y ago
The truth is, most customers or end users for Big Software aren't capable of handling the process of researching, trying, deciding, convincing higher ups, negotiating, designing, implementing (or finding an integrator), and supporting it th
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by trout 15y ago
As someone who troubleshoots networks for living, it can't be overstated what value easily understood information has. Normal factors such as lack of understanding of a system, miscommunication, false assumptions, false information, all ty
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by trout 15y ago
Or to reduce it down to dollars - how much does the NFL profit from advertising breaks while plays are reviewed? It's like proposing work productivity enhancements to people that are billed by the hour.
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by trout 15y ago
After doing this a few times a day for years the correct answer would be, "alright get them on the meeting recreating the problem and invite me when they're ready. " On average it takes 15-30 to get to someone else's screen to a productive
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by trout 15y ago
That's the old 'someone forgot to mute the call before accepting another call' trick. That's music on hold.
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by trout 15y ago
This is interesting. A large challenge in videoconferencing systems is encouraging use, since many of the legacy systems have 42 button remote controls, complicated scheduling, and quality problems. So there's been a huge push to make it
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by trout 15y ago
I don't believe you will replace movies with another form of entertainment. They are just stories when distilled when distilled. The stories are a fabric of values, beliefs, morals, and culture that is inseparable from society. Some stories
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by trout 15y ago
In the opinion of the RIAA/MPAA they are. I think that's not necessarily true because many of them are still buying media, just not all of the possible media that interests them. They're probably still going to the movies, renting or buyin
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by trout 15y ago
This would be more interesting if it was something that affected those groups. Those groups live in different media, not online. If their cable streams were hacked, billboards, advertising, commercials were compromised, it would truly tak
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by trout 15y ago
I'm not sure where Google's petition goes, and couldn't find a way to view it after signing. Do petitions mean anything? Google truly has the power to 'melt phones' so they may not be able to advocate that, but aren't there other things t
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by trout 15y ago
To an extent anonymity is the internet, for better or worse. Considering the economic growth associated it would seem for the better. Unfortunately bureaucracy seeps into the cracks of any complex system and ultimately changes the dynamic

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