Re: GBLX congestion in Dallas area

2005-06-07 Thread Sharif Torpis
It all depends on what you call a medium/large-scale outage. Based on historical list content, I think such outages are typified by events such as (mis)handling of malformed AS_PATH attributes by different router vendors, AS7007, Sprint 0.0.0.0, NSI root server corruption, widespread/cascading pr

Re: OT: Banc of America Article

2003-01-29 Thread Sharif Torpis
Halleluljah. A voice of knowledge as opposed to conjecture. Different bank ATMs operate differently. There are online and offline modes. The PIN may or may not be recorded on the card. Some of these differences are due to the fact that not all financial institutions were connected to interbank ne

Re: Risk of Internet collapse grows

2002-11-27 Thread Sharif Torpis
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V1H-461XHCP -1&_user=10&_coverDate=02%2F28%2F2003&_rdoc=4&_fmt=summary&_orig=brows e&_srch=%23toc%235675%232003%2399978%23346577!&_cdi=5675&_sort=d&_ docanchor=&wchp=dGLbVzb-lSzBA&_acct=C50221&_version=1&_urlVersion= 0&_userid=10&

Re: Certification or College degrees?

2002-05-22 Thread Sharif Torpis
On Wed, 22 May 2002 18:29:52 -0500, Stephen Sprunk wrote: > >Thus spake "Nigel Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Certifications are a waste of time. You'd be better off >>obtaining a Computer Science degree and focusing on the >>core technologies. > >If you're looking to write software, sure. A Com

Re: Certification or College degrees?

2002-05-22 Thread Sharif Torpis
On Wed, 22 May 2002 18:29:52 -0500, Stephen Sprunk wrote: > >Thus spake "Nigel Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Certifications are a waste of time. You'd be better off >>obtaining a Computer Science degree and focusing on the >>core technologies. > >If you're looking to write software, sure. A Com

Re: Certification or College degrees?

2002-05-22 Thread Sharif Torpis
On Wed, 22 May 2002 18:29:52 -0500, Stephen Sprunk wrote: > >Degrees are, in essence, a certificate that you are capable of >learning >things by rote and regurgitating them later, possibly applying a >small >amount of thought (but not too much). In most industries, that's a >highly >valuable th

Re: Certification or College degrees?

2002-05-22 Thread Sharif Torpis
On Wed, 22 May 2002 18:29:52 -0500, Stephen Sprunk wrote: > >Degrees are, in essence, a certificate that you are capable of >learning >things by rote and regurgitating them later, possibly applying a >small >amount of thought (but not too much). In most industries, that's a >highly >valuable th

RE: [Q] BGP filtering policies

2002-04-09 Thread Sharif Torpis
Some folks phrase it the way you did. Others phrase it that Exodus has stringent routing policies that prevent customers from doing silly things with Exodus IP space rather than obtaining their own PI space. Such silly things are detrimental to the stability of one's backbone. Permitting such si