PaisteUser - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:All of the above? (Score 2) 322

by PaisteUser on Thursday August 25 2011, @03:38PM (#37210996) Attached to: Who Makes Your Favorite Networking Gear?

It all depends on what your needs are.

If you want to go advanced networking with VLAN:s and stuff like that then Cisco or maybe HP are the alternatives, but considering that HP is moving to be a services only company then I think that Cisco is the way to go. As for those of you who swear to Extreme - no thank you.

Another alternative would be Juniper, but they are a small player in the top level pond.

From what I understand, HP wants to stay in the enterprise networking market.

They just snapped up 3COM not that long ago to compete directly with Cisco on their Nexus series switches. They tried to offload their ProCurve unit many years ago, but then decided to hang on to it.

You can't beat a lifetime warranty on a switch.

Comment: A little of column B, a little of column D... (Score 1) 722

by PaisteUser on Monday June 20 2011, @12:40PM (#36501988) Attached to: I Name My Servers After:

My naming convention at home has been related to Simpsons characters, it somewhat has to do with their function as well:

Homer = Desktop/Server
Bart = Laptop
Lovejoy = Firewall
Flanders = Modem
Marge = Wife's Computer
Maggie = Netbook

Wells Fargo ATM Failure-> 0

Submitted by PaisteUser on Tuesday February 08 2011, @10:16AM

PaisteUser writes "There was a failure of over 12,000 ATMs from California to New York for the last half of Monday. No word as of yet to why there was a nationwide outage."
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Comment: Re:Central point of failure.. (Score 1) 284

by PaisteUser on Wednesday December 23 2009, @12:07PM (#30535856) Attached to: BlackBerry Outages Across North America

BB is essential for cwhoreporate systems, because NO OTHER PHONE ON THE MARKET ANYWHERE matches its functionality... they can issue you a phone, then enforce strong passwords, content filtering, disable cameras so you don't end up sending pictures of your Christmas party indiscretion to your whole team, etc etc.

In Exchange 2007 you have the same functionality for policy enforcement; disabling cameras, strong passwords, managing applications, and blocking web browsing. Granted this is on a device that fully licenses ActiveSync technology.

Comment: Re:Going back to sleep now... (Score 1) 664

by PaisteUser on Thursday November 19 2009, @06:17PM (#30164750) Attached to: Google Releases Source To Chromium OS

It's going to be a synergenic revitalization of the optimum dynastic capitalization for interconnected dynamics in the convergent subsidiaries of virtual datacenter alligories.

You lost me after synergenic.

Antitrust Charges filed against Intel-> 0

Submitted by PaisteUser on Thursday November 05 2009, @10:31AM

PaisteUser writes "A blog at ZDnet writes: The New York Attorney General’s office today accused chip maker Intel of engaging in “a worldwide, systematic campaign of illegal conduct,” including paying kickbacks and threatening computer makers, and filed federal antitrust charges against it."
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Verizon, Google collaberate on Android-> 0

Submitted by PaisteUser on Tuesday October 06 2009, @09:29AM

PaisteUser writes "ZDnet reports that Verizon Wireless and Google said Tuesday that they will partner to co-develop a bevy of Android-based devices. The terms of the deal weren't disclosed, but the companies are looking to create innovative devices "pre-loaded with innovative applications from both parties as well as third-party developers.""
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Comment: Re:Since when do games only entail computer games? (Score 1) 214

by anarche on Thursday September 17 2009, @08:12AM (#29452249) Attached to: New York's Video-Game-Based Public School

Read the article. The kids are playing board games too.

Comment: Re:Remove Hydrocarbons from Plastic???!!!! (Score 1) 315

by BoRegardless on Thursday September 17 2009, @08:12AM (#29452243) Attached to: Transforming Waste Plastic Into $10/Barrel Fuel

I typed too fast on my prior reply.

The last line should have been...

If they claimed recovering over 100% by weight in "hydrocarbon oil" per ton of plastic it would make me believe the hype machine was running.

Comment: Re:That's becaues it's more mythology than reality (Score 1) 210

by Skweetis on Thursday September 17 2009, @08:07AM (#29452201) Attached to: Fungivarius Beats $2 Million Stradivarius Violin

This makes sense with high powered amps. A 1000W amplifier operating into a 4 or 8 ohm load will result in 10 to 15 amps on the wire (assuming you were running it full up, anyway). Anything lighter than 12 AWG or so will add impedance at these power levels, reducing power. I generally use 14 or 12 AWG cord for speaker connections. In the case of my earlier anecdote, booster cables can obviously handle the current; they are designed to carry hundreds of amps. I have no idea what the current capacity of barbed wire is. =p