merlyn

Cisco pinout took over, and almost everything went that way.

Years ago at the university, we had to buy straightup photocopies of articles and such out of books/magazines/whatever that the class would be taught off of at the campus bookstore at prices much higher than per-page copy.

Something about paying the source for licensing and distribution was the reason given.

I really try to avoid buying books (or anything other than throwaway products) from Amazon.

While I don't think I've received counterfeit books, (just electronics), Amazon also has a print-on-demand system that is horrible. Oftentimes these counterfiet books are printed/bounded from Amazon's own printers, these counterfieters don't even have to produce anything themselves, other than uploading a PDF to Amazon. Amazon does it all for them.

Unfortunately, if an author's book (legit sold through Amzon) I want is only printed off Amazon's print-on-demand service, I can't get it anywhere else. I think I've seen reference that Amazon makes an author have an exclusive with their print-on-demand, but I can't find a reference right now. Bah. We need to have less exclusive tie-ins and more choice.

Yes, Costcos, Sam's Clubs. Ikea. Carrefour. Walmart. Apple. Oppo stores.

Probably not around at the time that the article's author's parents emigrated.

There are people doing more of the outdoor thing in China now. Probably none going about 20 years back. Last time I was there, there were recreational bicyclists (ie. taking them off the back of their car) in the cities, as opposed to my first visits where many more bicycles for their comute than cars.

In Minnesota it is about $0.20 cheaper than the discount gas places.

I'd definately pay $2.60 more to avoid the crazy people jamming Costco's parking lots trying to get that 20 cents off. I've narrowly avoided many people going anywhere they could at ramming speed while I was visiting a neighboring business.

I now avoid their neighboring businesses on every weekend as I value my life and car to avoid that whole scene.

Thats like blaming the hammer for breaking.

BGP is just a tool, it would be something else to do the same purpose.

As others said, lost it long ago.

I try to avoid at all costs for buying electronics, as so much counterfiet stuff. Apple gear "designed in Carlifonia" proudly displayed. (real spelling found on Amazon gear sold from the Amazon Apple Store).

Lately just about anything computer related has been way jacked up in price from all the 3rd party sellers drowning out any direct-by-amazon. I go to Target or BestBuy to get normal prices. NewEgg may have something you can find still in the normal range of jacked prices in the sea of the same overpriced resellers there too.

Just about any books I've unfortunately bought from them come bent, folded, and the covers riped off. I've returned 90% of them. Now that Amazon has driven physical book stores out-of-business (and the two BN stores left near me carry about a single shelf of way out-of-date tech books), have to get very creative finding where to buy books. I miss the days of having real packaging protecting the books during shipping.

Unfortunately, many computer subject authors have moved to self-published through Amazon, and I end up with a book that is many screen shots that I can't read through the 10DPI they printed it at. Oh well, back it goes, I try to find the author's blog/twitter posts to let them know Amazon is printing crap for them and thats probably why they get so many returned book refunds.

It used to be a decent place to buy commodity items such as cleaning products, but lately everything is jacked way up in price to get you the "free" shipping. A $3 product is now $18, so they can soak you on the "free" shipping because most people aren't going to question the price, they see, they buy.

The main reasons for me ditching UBNT has been

• lies about supporting older versions of APs, telling me I need to upgrade to get x-such-feature, and then they support it later on the older hardware. • Various features sold as _coming_soon_, that really take several years to come about. • making more and more of their setup require a total buy-in of the whole infrastructure when I only wanted one piece of it. • It just wan't very reliable. I'd have to reboot all the APs every now and then to get them communicating well again (this seems to be limited to myself and not my friends, but happened on two generations of the UBNT hardware)

But what did them in on the end for me was some version upgrade totally blew up my network, that does depends on different SSIDs mapping to different VLANs, but after the upgrade, they bridged everything together. Found that unacceptable, so I gave up fighting them, dropped in another enterprise vendor, and now things are truely rock solid.

Yes, they give out many enterprise features for a very low cost, and the feature set does far surpass any of the consumer price range gear that they hover their price points around.

OOTH, since I do work with lots of Enterprise gear, I know when used gear is falling off in price to affordable for home levels, and how much more life I can reasonably get from it. Sure, I don't have 802.11ax, but I don't think my last round of UBNT AP buys can upgrade to 802.11ax either, would have had to buy another round of UBNT gear.

Especially to be hardened for space flight.

Its an RFC now. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9250.html

25Gbps is not insane if you are using commodity hardware. If you are buying any sort of datacenter switch, most likely it will be 25G/100G already. 10G/40G is dead tech.

Now, 400G uplinks are still pretty reserved, but 100G (and its' breakout, 4 x 25G) is common as dirt now.

Its to the point now that unless the email address is @hotmail or @yahoo, almost everybody assumes that there is some company named domain.com that that said owner of the email works for that company.

At the hight of the workstation era, where Sun generally ruled the roost. You've got to compare what you got with a workstation vs. a PC class of the era.

The PCs of now-a-days are light-years ahead of what PCs were available in the Workstation era, so much beyond that time, that nobody can think back to that time. This comparision kind of smears some time frames together..

So, in the early 90's , Sun was starting to ship 4-way MP, and 8-way MP. In 95, they introduced 64-bit CPUs just as PCs were really starting to use 32-bit computing. Typical speeds were from 50MHz - 400MHz in this time frame. At the high end you could get up to 256MB of RAM.

Sun Frame buffers at the time were doing 1920x1080 resolutions. (or slightly higher, but granted, a lot of these high-res were black & white in the earlier time frames).

They came with multiple fast/wide SCSI drives, tape drives, etc.

They all came with the vendor's unix. System uptime was usually quite good, months to over a year.

You did have some vendor lock with what software was available, but generally Sun was top of the heap, every vendor had something available for Sun.

Contrast this with PCs at the time.

State of the art PCs were 486 running 50MHz-75MHz, with 8MB of RAM. Maybe 32MB if you wanted to get Windows 95 going.

Video was VGA at 640x480, again not much need for more until after Win95 launched.

Hard drives were IDE, a whopping two if you were lucky. While SCSI existed on PC, it wasn't very common.

Linux and *BSD didn't come out until 1992-93 Even then, uptime of DOS systems or PC unix at the earliest time frame could be measured in days. You had to get _just the right_ hardware to make things work together.

By the end of the '90s. Workstations hadn't progressed very far. PC's grew by leaps and bounds, catching up and surpassing workstations handily.

PCs were actually fairly stable and the PC unix could give you really decent uptime.

But in the before the explosion of PCs, if you wanted power or uptime, or graphics, or disk speed, etc. etc. compared to what else was there, Workstations were the way to go.

That vibe existed far before the Krebs article.

Mostly from how the company has shifted their focus as described in other posts.

>> I know everyone's experiences here will vary but I've had very little breakage going between major version of Debian, but with FBSD too many things would break when doing a major release upgrade.

I encounter much the same in Debian/Ubuntu systems on major upgrades too. It all depends on what you are doing, and what the port maintainer has coded to deal with upgrades. If the port maintainer has written scripts to deal with moving old schemas to new ones, great. But that is far from universal. Sometimes FreeBSD does it better, sometimes Debian does it better.

Much more often than not, on FreeBSD or Linux, it usually is simpler to roll out a new machine and roll your data onto it to test. Otherwise I get headaches of incompatibility for either system for what I tend to do.

The reason some of the bigger sites don't offer IPv6 is to not have to deal with stupid broken client configurations.

There are so many groups out there that don't care to setup anything, and ignorantly, or not, break their existing IPv6 in weird ways.

We offer IPv6 services, but have to publish an "IPv4 only" version of some of our endpoints to have customers get around their own brokeness.

Also, I feel the biggest obsticle to IPv6 deployment is mostly the Enterprise firewall tech. Many residential users and mobile users have working IPv6 just fine right now. But I have yet to encounter an enterprise firewall setup for IPv6 properly, even if their ISP offered it.

But yet, they are willing to complain left and right about the CG-NAT restrictions (or overburdened) that they run into, with the easiest solution right in front of their face.

You can see the original vocab test that provided the report data still available at http://vocabulary.ugent.be/

Power in is directly heat out (that mechanical motion of fans twirling just isn't giving more than a rounding error).

You can only get so much cooling density. And loading up a rack can use a signifigant portion of cooling.

Its pretty easy now-a-days to get 18kW into a rack, which will require 5 tons of cooling. Ie. enough cooling to handle a 3,000 ft^2 house.

One can find RaPi boards as "kits" in stock at several locations. (still with limited quantities). Or, as pick-up in store only such as at Microcenter.

So this isn't a true measure of things.

Frying hardware can affect much wider scope.

I've had bad power supplies fry out taking the whole power circuit with it, and thus half (or whatever fraction) of the rack's power. I've also had bad power supplies bring down the whole machine as they shunted everything internal too.

When things go bad, anything can happen. You can provide the best effort, and it'll usually work as expected, but there will always be something that can overcome your best efforts.

As long as it isn't critical that your carrier's gateway is operating normally.

I have a customer that routinely emails through various carier's SMS gateways, and has reports several times a month that their messages aren't getting through and ask us to verify everything was handed off correctly. It always was handed off good, but their gateway is backlogged or broken for that half day or day.

This echos my direct experience years ago (before I made my own solution similar to this setup).

That is the most common in datacenters, but there are other configurations. 3-phase power is becoming common. Some others.

Twistlocks are also used a lot in Theater lighting, and movie/tv production.

Also, some generators.

But yes, in general, not so common for residential, and only certain commercial tasks.

Ie. exactly what other providers call ALIAS records.

A synthetic lookup of the target, with DNS responding behind the scenes with the right magic.

You'd setup your firewall to protect your IPv6 network. This policy says do this, firewall defaults to no traffic pass. Same as you have now.

IPv6 privacy extension (been around for many many years, and default on at least MacOS and others for many iterations), gives you a new IPv6 address every time period, and rotates through them transparently.

I've checked my records, I registered domains at the start of January 2002 through OpenSRS for my customers. OpenSRS have celebrated 20 years according to their blog.

I don't remember the exact year from handoff from NetSol to ICANN approved registars, but some of that work started in September 1998. I found some sources that state sometime during 2001 was when NetSol had it's exclusive registrar service ended.

Underwood-Miller put out a "The Collected Stories of Phillip K. Dick" 5 book collection in 1987.

I have a first-edition set on my bookshelves back when I bought it back then.

I assume the Folio Society collection is the same material, redone into 4 books and fancy covers and illustrations.

What I really want to see is the AppleTV turn into a video conferencing system. Almost everything is there now. Just need the camera (rumor was some Home Pod device may have one?)

Let it run Zoom/Google Meets.

Sure plenty of solutions out there, but its all going to be Enterprise priced. $600-$700 an AP, plus whatever is going to be the controller. In this space, you'll find cloud based options, controller based options, and standalone.

If you are willing to go this price range, I think FortiAPs feeding back to a Fortigate FW is rock solid solution. But a FortiAP-431F is $616. And a base FG60F as controller is $535 + service if you need it. And although you probably won't need repair options, support/maintenance is a yearly fee ontop of that.

Ubiquity was definately a unique company offering many of the enterprise features for consumer pricing.

There's no simple way, the virtualization vendors have to write virtual hardware, and their signatures are all over everything in the virtualized PC stack. There are numerous ways to detect these, let alone the API hooks vendors leave in the guest OS for the guest to query the hypervisor.

One of the problems mentioned in the article is that all major browsers are starting to automatically set your browser to ignore system settings and just go to Cloudflare or Google DoH servers.

No matter what you do locally (unless you locally serve the do-not-auto-doh flag), you'll have to touch each of your browsers on each system to not have this behavior.