merlyn

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by merlyn 2mo ago
With normal inflation, a $30 O'Reilly book in the year 2000 would be about $58 today.
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by merlyn 7mo ago
Yes, it is real. I'd be scared to look at what the administrative fees will be, and where they would be going, although I don't have to imagine too hard for that.
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by merlyn 11mo ago
Correct, what RFC2317 brings you, is an example of you creating a new namespace in some structured format (IIRC, there are three different example formats given in this RFC), and you just have the upstream ISP, which has the reverse delegat
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by merlyn 1y ago
Note, the CIDR RFC didn't come out until Sep 1993. Thus even brand new network equipment in the mid 1990's were still very classful. And even then, knowledge of how to properly use /etc/netmasks in SunOS v4.x (or the eq
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by merlyn 3y ago
Frontline had a pretty decent series on Pegasus malware. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/global-spywar...
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by merlyn 3y ago
For a very long time, Juniper lead over Cisco for performance and features. After the run of the original Catalyst switches, Cisco was floundering, resting on their past successes without really pushing anything. We bought Juniper gear at t
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by merlyn 3y ago
I've stopped buying books from Amazon as _every_single_one_ comes with the corners dinged, the covers scratched, and often times bent in half one way or the other. If I happen to want a self-published-printed-by-amazon book (ie. not av
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by merlyn 3y ago
After the Brand-X decision ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Cable_%26_Telecommuni... ) all the iLECs shutdown any attempt at line sharing.
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by merlyn 3y ago
They've announced NSX and SD-WAN is a core business unit under the new VMware as Broadcom offering. EUC, Aria and Carbon Black are still up in the air.
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by merlyn 3y ago
I haven't had any trouble installing VMware security patches (I've done plenty). As to why there seems to be such an increase in security patches, its like the quote from Willie Sutton. That's where the money is.. The largest
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by merlyn 3y ago
Hyper-V as most people actually use it is more like single-host VMware ESXi. VMware's true magic is with vCenter. While Microsoft has an equivalent to that (SC VMM), nobody seems to use it because it is virtually unusable. I've ne
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by merlyn 3y ago
Storage Spaces Direct is a sure plan to have data loss. Such a piece of % #(
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by merlyn 3y ago
I've found in the long term, it can not. In the short term, yes it does work. Perhaps my failure rate is just high, but micro-mini systems for that use case were much more reliable for me over long time frames.
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by merlyn 3y ago
ISO's customers are ones that only absolutely need to have a traceback to the source of truth with a certifiable chain. For 99.99% of the other people in the world that need it, the PDF spec is freely available. https://pdfa
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by merlyn 3y ago
IPv4 today is a totally different paradigm than what IPv4 was in the 1980's and early 1990's. IPng (IPv6) was designed when the original paradigm existed, not what we have now-a-days. So, if we actually had been on track to do IPv
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by merlyn 3y ago
Intel's servers are usually OEMed to some other maker taking Intel's design and using them as the basis of their solution. The Intel case is pretty recognizable, and I see it time and time again with various vendors hardware kit.
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by merlyn 4y ago
In downtown Minneapolis, the whole of downtown is on computer controlled traffic light grid, so the crosswalk buttons don't change any of the timing of the traffic light grid. But on all the ADA upgraded intersections, the crosswalk bu
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by merlyn 4y ago
I don't get those scrap metal collectors.. Spend $40 in gas driving around all day to get $20 worth of scrap steel. Unless scrap steel goes for way more somewhere else other than the places I've taken it to.
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by merlyn 4y ago
Probably not the same thing in general.. But.. I've bought printed books on demand on Amazon, the first week they were released, (so not like a pirate had any time to duplicate it); that had horrendous print quality, super low quality
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by merlyn 4y ago
SACD, HD-Audio, Blu-Ray Audio. I own music only discs in each of these formats. I think the last Blu-Ray Audio disk I bought (Yello Point Dolby Atmos release) was shipped in 2021. Granted, they are fairly sparse. That disc was an import.
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by merlyn 4y ago
Novell users at the time 4.0 came out had no clue what a Directory was, and why they should use it. They were quite used to v3.11, and everybody turned their back on v4.0 as too complex, totally unneeded, and why bother. By the time Microso
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by merlyn 4y ago
I think licensing was a huge factor in Microsoft winning. Microsoft's license was soft, and depending on the customer buying enough paper to cover, if you could even find a reseller that could describe how to properly license Windows S
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by merlyn 4y ago
My two cents running a small to mid-sized email server service. I do have a global block list based on certain gTLDs. The list isn't one chosen at random based on the long list of gTLDs out there, but based on real time feedback from m
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by merlyn 4y ago
We don't have any machines with a new enough distro to be bundled with OpenSSL 3.x.
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by merlyn 4y ago
Some self-checkouts are really slow and sucky. I can scan things faster than the register can take it. It gives me a beep, I move on. Then I see the register is missing items, and getting out of sync with the scale function. Most things I b
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by merlyn 4y ago
I've noticed this too. It definately is by product. Since I buy lots of weird stuff, my delivery times are all over the place. Some items can be obtained same day (if I buy enough $$), or overnight. Some "Prime" sales can tak
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by merlyn 4y ago
> I found it funny that he wasn’t sure that the video games industry would last. At the time, video games seemed to be overly saturated, the marketplace was way down in sales and yes, people didn't know if video games were a passing
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by merlyn 4y ago
As someone that does run an ISP and helps run an IXP, it matters nothing to me if somebody has a 32-bit ASN vs a 16-bit ASN. Sure, I can see 6939 or 701 and know instantly who that is, but in the end, it matters nothing for the other 98% of
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by merlyn 4y ago
Most of my training classes lately has used VitalSource. Apparently they take their DRM pretty seriously, and hide their keys pretty well, and rotate them often. There's some older DRM strippers for it that no longer work, I'm gu
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by merlyn 4y ago
Cisco pinout took over, and almost everything went that way.

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