Well new tech is also lagging. Do you have your own server with email, all services (like monitoring, backup, security, ...) and pretty good spam filtering? For not-so-much money?

Because larger amounts of people are slow to migrate.

We are a service provider and therefore create our own traffic and it is not extremely timing sensitive. We do monitor download times and they are always in acceptable limits (i.e. fast). The ports of our data centres are also monitored and spew out exactly our traffic numbers.

The load on our routers and the memory use is extremely low. They have been tested to see what happens under certain conditions. Vyatta takes a little memory per connection and we have seen a DDoS killing us because there was no more memory (when we had a low end machine do the work: Dell 1850, 2GB) and we upgraded the machine at that point to rediculous standards. But I will say that there certainly is a place for specialized equipment.

We use Linux on our routers and it works just fine (we have about 400Mbit traffic on our AS). Intel says Vyatta works up to 10G. No asics there (I'm not counting the network card chips).

Most countries do not have a DMCA. SOL.

And often the slowest part of the webpage.

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I think they are fighting for page neutrality. Why would one image not be loaded and the other one will be? Who is the author and holds the copyright? Who is the receiver to modify such works? I think they have a point (when net neutrality would be law; oh wait it isn't)[/evil grin]

The question should be: What are the risks and how do we keep them in balance (by maintaining control).

That should teach you to not buy HP (or Dell) anymore. Buy normal motherboards that are not created by companies with non-standard ideas on creating hardware.

We no longer buy brand computers but have them assembled by our specs. We do not buy support, nor do we have SLAs. We do have enough people who understand and can solve operational issues (i.e. 5). We do tend to replace more stuff that fails to work when updated or has operational issues (like network cards that freeze when under full load, that is you Dell). And we have more hot-spare machines in a second location (good for maintenance, availability on HW failure, contingency plans, ...).

Because Red Hat users are like Windows users: If it doesn't work you call the support line ;-).

In the NL there no longer exists red diesel, except for boats (iirc).

In the NL diesel cars are aboute 2 to 3 times more expensive to own. I pay 115 euro per month in road taxes (instead of 43 for the gas version).

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Try another repressive regime next time, there are lots of them.