So? Its OSS, not exactly possible to lock you in.

Perhaps you should consider getting a job so you don't have to get evicted and move so often that your worry about the local paper disappearing is that you won't have packing materials.

Every Mac user on the planet who prints ... does it through CUPs.

I.E. there are more CUPS users than Linux users.

Want to try again?

Google supported existing open APIs instead of pulling a Microsoft and inventing their own for everything and dropping support for open APIs?

Whats next to be replaced by some Google specific protocol for Google users? SMTP?

I've been reading about the Helix for over a year now and its been on sale for months, can you please tell me what your definition of 'new' is?

Yes, its fairly easy to build a 3d model given enough input and the right algorithms. Look at all the 3d scanner software that uses kinect and multiple frames to construct a higher resolution model.

The watch list is also worldwide and covers all acts of terror, even tiny ones like blowing up cherry bombs in the school toilets and includes aliases. If I were on the watch list I'd have probably 15 entries that I'm aware of ... and I'm not trying to hide anything. You would have at least 2 considering your real name and slashdot user id, presumably many more as well.

If you put it in context, its not really that big.

No its not. This cable uses amplifiers, and the article mentions a previous 10,000km cable that didn't require repeaters but only has a 4Tbps data rate.

Its built into each of the amplifiers stretched along the cable every 100km.

No, they'll just hook this new equipment up to the existing fiber. Thats how this works you know, right?

What do you think they are testing it on? Some new 7200km fiber they cooked up yesterday? They do this with existing trunks.

My switches diagnose switching loops on their own. I don't know of a managed switch that doesn't do spanning tree detection and disable a looped port on its own, what Chinese knock-offs are you guys buying?

You're fired.

Logs on those devices should be going to a syslog server, the fact that they aren't means your ass is fired immediately.

Then you and everyone you've ever worked with are shitty admins.

Not admitting to your mistakes is a big 'I'm afraid you'll realize I don't know what I'm doing if I tell you it was my fault' sign.

Its not unique to network admins, its there in all trades and its equally indicative of incompetence. Its also a grounds for immediate termination for anyone on my staff.

The CCNA and NP are meaningless to anyone with a clue. Sorry you wasted your money but you need to know what they teach you before you even considering getting into the field, you need far more authoritative certifications to be useful job hunting. A CCNA or CCNP in network is roughly like saying 'I got a certificate because I could spell my own name ... given at least 3 tries.'

The reason you are still working at a help desk is simple. You aren't qualified to do anything else. Hate to burst your bubble, but your position in life is your own doing.

If you think 'software defined networking' and OpenFlow are going to make it more understandable you completely fail to understand how any software works at all.

Networks are ALREADY SOFTWARE DEFINED and ALWAYS HAVE BEEN.

You seem to think running software on your software that runs on your hardware is magically and unintuitively going to work better than software on hardware.