Re: GBLX congestion in Dallas area

2005-06-08 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

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

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=

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 thing to

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 CompSci degree

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 CompSci degree