OK guys. I get it.. you are not cert fans. I did mention that
when I interview candidates, the most knowledgeable gets the position.
Did I mention that I can take an engine or transmission apart, then put
it back together? ( or have it on a bench unseen and reassemble it...
just a hobby )
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> Vegetable oil can degrade much faster than diesel.
>
> What you really want is a large pond at the top of a hill, and another
> large pond at the bottom of the same hill.
>
> When utility prices are low, pump the water to the upper pond. When
>
On Jun 14, 2007, at 10:11 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
And what about all those diesel generators? How many of them are
capable
of running on vegetable oil rather than diesel oil? I regularly walk
past a building in London that reeks because of the diesel fuel
tanks i
On Thursday 14 June 2007 10:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Since many Microsoft patches are only legally available via
> > the Internet, and an ISP can not predict which servers
> > Microsoft will use to distribute Microsoft patches, ISPs must
> > enable essentially full Internet access which in
On 6/14/07, randal k <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This particular issue has been confounding to work around as well. The issue
of constantly updating DNS to match the current topology is a pain, but in
my opinion, very necessary.
I'm not entirely convinced DNS records for every possible interfac
>In general, creating a sandbox where a computer can only reach
>$UPDATE_SERVER is very, very difficult.
I believe it. Perhaps we could help Microsoft make it easier. The
sandbox doesn't have to include all their servers, just enough of
them to service the sandboxed users.
> And, as much as
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Jeroen Massar wrote:
You want to have a look at:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/wsus/
Which is used in large organizations to deploy patches with ease.
Requires some AD mumbojumbo of course.
Really the information is out there, google knows, so can you :)
Read the Mi
Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
[.]]
> That said, the majority of compromised computers do run some flavor of
> Redmond-Ware. (One can argue about the underlying cause - market share,
> quality of software, virus writer's preference, whatever - but the fact
> still stands that most compromised computers
On Jun 14, 2007, at 2:45 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, John Levine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
I realize it's not a technical problem, although I suspect there are
some technical twiddles that could help, e.g., persuading
Microsoft to
put the update servers in their own ASN to make
Once upon a time, John Levine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I realize it's not a technical problem, although I suspect there are
> some technical twiddles that could help, e.g., persuading Microsoft to
> put the update servers in their own ASN to make it easier to put them
> in a sandbox. And I rea
>Its not a technical problem (although engineers seem to like to think
>everything is), its a legal issue with Microsoft's lawyer and licenses.
I realize it's not a technical problem, although I suspect there are
some technical twiddles that could help, e.g., persuading Microsoft to
put the upda
> There's no correlation between certification and capability, in my
> experience.
my experience differs radically. i only know one old dog senior routing
engineer on the net who has a vendor diploma [0]. so i would say p ~
0.99 for the negative hypothesis.
randy
--
[0] - he had to go out an
> But back to chips and heat generation. Has anyone
> instrumented some of these servers (and their software) to
> figure out how much heat various functions generate?
It seems that someone has done just that. A list member sent me a
private reply pointing me to http://www.linuxpowertop.org/
I
On 2007/06/14 15:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I suspect that you would need to make special modifications to the
> hardware of a server to install temperature and current measuring
> devices in key locations
The vast majority of modern machines have working temperature sensors;
some just one or
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>On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 07:41 -0700, Owen DeLong wrote:
>> Wouldn't it be more appropriate if the FBI told people the phone
>> number to Micr0$0ft?
>
>It would lighten the load on the ISPs, but would it
On Jun 14, 2007, at 8:03 AM, Jim Popovitch wrote:
On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 07:41 -0700, Owen DeLong wrote:
Wouldn't it be more appropriate if the FBI told people the phone
number to Micr0$0ft?
It would lighten the load on the ISPs, but would it really achieve
anything worthwhile?
-Jim P.
I
People are asking me to port a summary back to the list, but as I'm
still getting replies coming in I'm going to leave this until tomorrow.
S
Sam Stickland wrote:
All,
Thanks for the replies that have started rolling in. They've made me
realise I should have added an additional question f
On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 07:41 -0700, Owen DeLong wrote:
> Wouldn't it be more appropriate if the FBI told people the phone
> number to Micr0$0ft?
It would lighten the load on the ISPs, but would it really achieve
anything worthwhile?
-Jim P.
At 10:33 AM 6/14/2007, you wrote:
Didn't we discuss the need for standard water connectors not so long
ago? Water over Ethernet?
The new Liebert GX high density cooling gear is pretty slick. It uses
a liquid which turns to a gas if the line is breached. It provides
the advantages of liquid c
Hi,
I've set the reply-to address to me as this message has gone to
several lists.
There will be an IPv6 Deployment Panel discussion at the ICANN
meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Sunday 24 June between 3pm and
4.30pm (UTC -4). The session will focus on the issues associated with
dep
Wouldn't it be more appropriate if the FBI told people the phone
number to Micr0$0ft?
Owen
Sean Donelan wrote:
Since many Microsoft patches are only legally available via the
Internet, and an ISP can not predict which servers Microsoft will use to
distribute Microsoft patches, ISPs must enable essentially full Internet
access which includes access for most worms.
May I recomme
Didn't we discuss the need for standard water connectors not so long
ago? Water over Ethernet?
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Jack Bates wrote:
May I recommend developing an in house method for allowing the customer only
access to your servers (web, dns, proxy, etc), and then apply filters for
everything else except for tcp/80. If you wanted to be additionally paranoid,
you could even allow only
> Since many Microsoft patches are only legally available via
> the Internet, and an ISP can not predict which servers
> Microsoft will use to distribute Microsoft patches, ISPs must
> enable essentially full Internet access which includes access
> for most worms.
Has anybody tried a firewall
> A related area that might well be worth revisiting is
> cooling. IIRC, it was someone from Google, at the Intel
> developer conference, who said that their power and HVAC
> costs were rapidly approaching the cost of their servers. He
> laid down a challenge for chipmakers to be more energy-e
On Wed, 14 Jun 2007, John Levine wrote:
But ISPs are not wholly without responsibility. If one of your
customers reloaded Windows from CD and then needed to download all of
the patches, do you provide a way for them to do it without getting
re-wormed before the download is done?
Windows patch
[Sorry, I have a hosed copy of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Outlook, which crashes
whenever I tell
it to prefix earlier comments with >]
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From: William F. Maton Sotomayor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 8:14 AM
To: Howard C. Berkowitz
Subject: RE: 24x7 Sup
Daniel J McDonald wrote:
On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 12:57 +0100, Leigh Porter wrote:
Even my recent experience says no here. I had a CCIE (written..!) in for
an interview and, well, I am not sure how he managed to get CCIE written
but he sure as hell didn't know much.
There is no such thi
On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 12:57 +0100, Leigh Porter wrote:
>
> Even my recent experience says no here. I had a CCIE (written..!) in for
> an interview and, well, I am not sure how he managed to get CCIE written
> but he sure as hell didn't know much.
There is no such thing as a "CCIE (written)".
I find that within 15 mins of any interview I have accurately judged the
technical competence of most candidates...
Sam Stickland wrote:
Joe Abley wrote:
On 14-Jun-2007, at 02:32, Sam Stickland wrote:
Does anyone have any CCIE (or equivalent technical ability) staff on
a 24x7 shift? Wh
Even my recent experience says no here. I had a CCIE (written..!) in for
an interview and, well, I am not sure how he managed to get CCIE written
but he sure as hell didn't know much.
There are some useful qualifications for ISP potential employees that
the LINX provide in conjunction with
Joe Abley wrote:
On 14-Jun-2007, at 02:32, Sam Stickland wrote:
Does anyone have any CCIE (or equivalent technical ability) staff on
a 24x7 shift? What about CCIE level staff on an on-call rota with a
garanteed response time? How about CCNP?
Does anybody actually put any stock in the prese
I doubt it maybe training companies!
A number of vendors have grades to meet. So X number of certified experts
mean better deals from said vendor.
Regards,
Neil.
> Does anybody actually put any stock in the presence or absence of
> vendor certifications on a resume when judging the capabiliti
On 14-Jun-2007, at 02:32, Sam Stickland wrote:
Does anyone have any CCIE (or equivalent technical ability) staff
on a 24x7 shift? What about CCIE level staff on an on-call rota
with a garanteed response time? How about CCNP?
Does anybody actually put any stock in the presence or absence o
This topic interests me very much, and I had a BOF about staff development
at the Montreal meeting in 1999. I remember some of the details, and, while
I am no longer generally doing course development, I have some pretty strong
ideas of what reasonably constitutes a proper training sandbox for a
All,
Thanks for the replies that have started rolling in. They've made me
realise I should have added an additional question for clarity.
Does anyone have any CCIE (or equivalent technical ability) staff on a
24x7 shift? What about CCIE level staff on an on-call rota with a
garanteed respon
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