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Comment Re: Hopefully common sense will prevail (Score 2) 136

At the least "buying" the software meant you can use it for as long as you could find a machine to run it on.

The big push of corporate america these days is to deepen the poverty cycle by turning everything into a rental.

Silly me, I thought "nobody owns anything" was part of the Communist plot.

Comment Re:maybe no thing at all (Score 1) 88

Agreed. I tend to keep a cellphone until it's dead. The last one I had went through a couple screen protectors and a new battery until one day it simply wouldn't connect to the cellular network anymore. I would certainly like an extended battery life, especially since the trend is towards harder to replace batteries now.

Since a phone can run from the charger when it's plugged in, a pulsed charging circuit wouldn't be all that complicated and shouldn't add much cost, even given the silly markups in play these days.

Comment Re:maybe no thing at all (Score 2) 88

Not so fast. There are many scenarios where a life extending charge method could be really helpful, including cellphones and EVs. Perhaps you like to get a new cellphone after 2 years and don't think doubling the total life of the battery is worth it, but wouldn't you like it if your nearly 2 year old phone still held a charge like a nearly 1 year old phone? Don't you thing that at least for some people that might make it worthwhile to hold on to it for another year?

For EVs, one of the biggest worries is how much it will cost when it's time to swap out the batteries. Don't you think being able to put that off for 4 years might be worthwhile.

Pulsed charging won't likely require much modification to charging circuits.

New battery formulations can take years to go from proven in the lab to available to buy. A pulsed charge circuit should have a much shorter lab to street time.

Comment Re:BMCs shouldn't be on the Internet (Score 1) 62

Not my router, so I need to defend against the screwed up config. I choose to do that through a combination of network setup WRT routing and using VLANS to keep traffic that shouldn't be away from my maintenance net. If there should never be traffic from the uplink port to the maintenance net, just block it just in case. Defense in depth.

As a side note, that's also why I avoid sharing the host port for the BMC once a box is in production. It has been handy figuring out what's wrong when helping hands turn out to be less helpful.

Comment Re:BMCs shouldn't be on the Internet (Score 1) 62

If martians could come from another customer's network to mine, I have no reason to believe it couldn't go the other way.

The colo manager I contacted about it thought it was anything but normal. The 10 net should have been null routed, of course.

You may be surprised to learn that the little bitty microcontroller most BMCs are based on have significantly less computational power than a 32 core Epyc CPU does...

Our networks aren't the ones that get pwned. It's our customers. You, in this instance, would be one of our customers.

And that is why I would VLAN my uplink off from my management network. I don't trust your router's config...

You seem to mis-understand security. It's not belt OR suspenders, it's belt AND suspenders. AKA security in depth. I wouldn't depend on just VLAN tagging for security. I wouldn't depend on just routing and firewalling for security.

Finally, do you now or have you ever used Solarwinds?

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