At the end of 20 years, that datacenter won't be usable, and just another tear down.

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.

Running a long time ISP, I found extremely few customers wanting to do something like RFC2317, or could actually figure out and do it effectively. Almost all were content with control panel/API and having the ISP do it after I pointed them to this informational RFC asking them if this is what they wanted.

In the mid 90's, SMBs connecting to the Internet would have very typically obtained a /24 from their ISP, and had direct connection online, no firewalls, barely any proxy servers (although that was popular for some mid sized customers that would have needed multiple /24s or even a /16 to get all their workstations online).

It wasn't until the company Network Translation, with the PIX came about that anybody even considered doing private IP address in general as a firewall strategy with NAT translation using private IPs. And then it took years and years to become popular. Long bought by Cisco at that point.

I don't think Cisco IOS even had NAT until something like 10.2, when it was a premium license package.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/global-spywar...

We bought Juniper gear at the time because nothing Cisco had would work well for us. At least at not any sane price point, and lots of restrictions/gotchas.

Cisco finally got their wind back eventually on their Nexus gear, catching up and run neck-and-neck between Juniper & Arista now.

If I happen to want a self-published-printed-by-amazon book (ie. not available at any other store), I'll really think twice about it, as the quality is probably total crap. The last one I got had screenshots that were all unreadable (and the main content was mostly in the screenshots, without explaining text otherwise), and looked like it was printed at about 15 dpi.

OOTH, I've never had problems with BN or Bookshop.

EUC, Aria and Carbon Black are still up in the air.

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 target gets the most attention.

Everybody has bugs. While you may hide under the radar with using some lesser known things, don't fool yourself thinking that there aren't holes the hackers can weave their way through.

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 never seen a successful production cluster of VMM running.

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.

For 99.99% of the other people in the world that need it, the PDF spec is freely available.

https://pdfa.org/resource/iso-32000-pdf/

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 IPv6 in the decade it was defined, we could have gone a totally different way. Instead due to the rapid growth of the Internet in the mid 90's, IPv4 was morphed into something different and IPv6 had its own model until we started to need it again.

The Intel case is pretty recognizable, and I see it time and time again with various vendors hardware kit.

But on all the ADA upgraded intersections, the crosswalk buttons DO start announcing the count down time, and what intersection they are at.

So, they do something, but they won't change the time it takes the light to actually change.

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.

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 screen caps (like 35dpi).

Its so I rethink my decision to have a printed tech book if the author only produces it as an Amazon print-on-demand title. Such that when I find a tech book that I want to read, I generally search elsewhere for it first, and if Amazon is the _only_ vendor that has it, I assume it is an Amazon print-on-demand text, and reconsider if I should buy it because I know I'll just be disappointed in crap quality.

So not only pirates doing it, Amazon is doing it itself as it races to the bottom to compete against who?