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With normal inflation, a $30 O'Reilly book in the year 2000 would be about $58 today.

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.

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 y…

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…

Frontline had a pretty decent series on Pegasus malware. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/global-spywar...

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 …

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 w…

After the Brand-X decision ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Cable_%26_Telecommuni... ) all the iLECs shutdown any attempt at line sharing.

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.

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 Su…

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 t…

Storage Spaces Direct is a sure plan to have data loss. Such a piece of % #(

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…

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, th…

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-da…

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 …

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 …

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 t…

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)…

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. …

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 co…

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 reselle…

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 …

We don't have any machines with a new enough distro to be bundled with OpenSSL 3.x.

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 …