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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
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@nadnerb said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/telstra-trial-claims-worlds-fastest-transmission-speeds-481679
Telstra has announced a successful demo of 400 gigabit per second data transmission speeds on its Melbourne production network, claiming to have achieved the world's fastest speeds.HA! There's no mention of the distance that this was achieved over, so 1 metre is what I'll estimate it to be until the distance stats are published.
That's a fraction of the speed Cisco was trying to sell us most of a decade ago.
Bullshit.
@StorageNinja was sitting beside me. SpiceCorps Houston. Cisco "engineers" told us that they had released multi-terabit speeds and mocked us for not having networks that were fast enough to "even run YouTube in a few years."
Cisco literally was telling us our LAN port speeds had to be 14 Tb/s to do basic tasks. That was not quite a decade ago, but I'd guess 2010. So eight years.
This is one of the reasons that I see Cisco as such a joke. This was their corporate engineering rep who was so into "selling" and so non-technical, that he couldn't even come up with a plausible lie about what Cisco equipment was able to do.
Now that you mention it, I remember some crazy jibber jabber along those lines.
Much face palming
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@nadnerb said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@nadnerb said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/telstra-trial-claims-worlds-fastest-transmission-speeds-481679
Telstra has announced a successful demo of 400 gigabit per second data transmission speeds on its Melbourne production network, claiming to have achieved the world's fastest speeds.HA! There's no mention of the distance that this was achieved over, so 1 metre is what I'll estimate it to be until the distance stats are published.
That's a fraction of the speed Cisco was trying to sell us most of a decade ago.
Bullshit.
@StorageNinja was sitting beside me. SpiceCorps Houston. Cisco "engineers" told us that they had released multi-terabit speeds and mocked us for not having networks that were fast enough to "even run YouTube in a few years."
Cisco literally was telling us our LAN port speeds had to be 14 Tb/s to do basic tasks. That was not quite a decade ago, but I'd guess 2010. So eight years.
This is one of the reasons that I see Cisco as such a joke. This was their corporate engineering rep who was so into "selling" and so non-technical, that he couldn't even come up with a plausible lie about what Cisco equipment was able to do.
Now that you mention it, I remember some crazy jibber jabber along those lines.
Much face palming
️ was doneYeah, they made a big deal about it for a little while. They had a legit, or semi-legit news release about something they had developed, they claimed, but I've never seen it in use in a decade. And their "technical staff" ran with it without any comprehension of reality and made Cisco out to be a big joke.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@nadnerb said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Much face palming
️ was doneFacepalming women?
iOS suggestion for facepalm. I only asked for one emoji. Guess it was a "Buy one get one free moment".
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Dell considering returning public, other options as they look to raise capital... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-26/dell-technologies-is-said-to-be-considering-ipo-other-options
One of the things I like about Dell is the fact that they are a private company, therefore don't have the pressures to do things that may not be the best decision for consumers in order to please shareholders. Will be watching this play out and see what changes this might bring.
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@zachary715 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Dell considering returning public, other options as they look to raise capital... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-26/dell-technologies-is-said-to-be-considering-ipo-other-options
One of the things I like about Dell is the fact that they are a private company, therefore don't have the pressures to do things that may not be the best decision for consumers in order to please shareholders. Will be watching this play out and see what changes this might bring.
Just because you are private, doesn't mean you don't have shareholders. Its just that they are not publicly traded on a stock exchange. Pressure of shareholders could still be there. You just wouldn't have the SEC breathing down your neck.
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@nerdydad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@zachary715 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Dell considering returning public, other options as they look to raise capital... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-26/dell-technologies-is-said-to-be-considering-ipo-other-options
One of the things I like about Dell is the fact that they are a private company, therefore don't have the pressures to do things that may not be the best decision for consumers in order to please shareholders. Will be watching this play out and see what changes this might bring.
Just because you are private, doesn't mean you don't have shareholders. Its just that they are not publicly traded on a stock exchange. Pressure of shareholders could still be there. You just wouldn't have the SEC breathing down your neck.
But it does mean your name isn't in the news every quarter when you report earnings and people nit-picking your statements. This is what I'm referring to. As a private company, you can generally make better long-term decisions with less scrutiny than you could as a public company.
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@zachary715 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Dell considering returning public, other options as they look to raise capital... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-26/dell-technologies-is-said-to-be-considering-ipo-other-options
One of the things I like about Dell is the fact that they are a private company, therefore don't have the pressures to do things that may not be the best decision for consumers in order to please shareholders. Will be watching this play out and see what changes this might bring.
That seems like an insanely bad move.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@zachary715 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Dell considering returning public, other options as they look to raise capital... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-26/dell-technologies-is-said-to-be-considering-ipo-other-options
One of the things I like about Dell is the fact that they are a private company, therefore don't have the pressures to do things that may not be the best decision for consumers in order to please shareholders. Will be watching this play out and see what changes this might bring.
That seems like an insanely bad move.
Much of Dell's recent acquisitions and success can be attributed to Michael Dell taking it private again. This really does seem like a terrible move.
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Unless Dell is trying to cash out? I'm not sure how that would work for him actually.
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@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Unless Dell is trying to cash out? I'm not sure how that would work for him actually.
Very possible, but that was SO much work to get private, too much for a quick cash out I think.
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https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/len-15999
Lenovo at it again.
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@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/len-15999
Lenovo at it again.
This is not an issue with users that on Windows 10?
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Unless Dell is trying to cash out? I'm not sure how that would work for him actually.
Very possible, but that was SO much work to get private, too much for a quick cash out I think.
There's a firm that helped Michael Dell take the company private. Very possible they're wanting to cash out and going public is the way to do it. Who knows.
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/len-15999
Lenovo at it again.
This is not an issue with users that on Windows 10?
It can be but they are saying only Windows 7 and 8...
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@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/len-15999
Lenovo at it again.
meh.. I won't crucify them over this.. other vendors have had similar issues. There are tons of other things to be upset with them over...
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@zachary715 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Unless Dell is trying to cash out? I'm not sure how that would work for him actually.
Very possible, but that was SO much work to get private, too much for a quick cash out I think.
There's a firm that helped Michael Dell take the company private. Very possible they're wanting to cash out and going public is the way to do it. Who knows.
From what I've read it was a firm he founded and held majority share of. He was the sole person to bring Dell private. Either he's trying for a quick cash out, which wouldn't make much sense since Dell just took over EMC and VMWare, or he's going to get out of the game and the company can't afford to buy him out. Either way seems very unlikely.
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@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@zachary715 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Unless Dell is trying to cash out? I'm not sure how that would work for him actually.
Very possible, but that was SO much work to get private, too much for a quick cash out I think.
There's a firm that helped Michael Dell take the company private. Very possible they're wanting to cash out and going public is the way to do it. Who knows.
From what I've read it was a firm he founded and held majority share of. He was the sole person to bring Dell private. Either he's trying for a quick cash out, which wouldn't make much sense since Dell just took over EMC and VMWare, or he's going to get out of the game and the company can't afford to buy him out. Either way seems very unlikely.
Silver Lake was the name of the firm. Looks like they helped Dell take the company private and currently own about 18%. This is just one reason people are speculating they are considering this move
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/26/dell-is-considering-acquisitions-or-a-possible-ipo-sources.html
From the article...
Another consideration for Dell in its deliberations is offering a path to private equity firm Silver Lake to cash out on its investment in the company. Silver Lake helped bankroll Michael Dell's $24.9 billion deal in 2013 to take the company private and owns about 18 percent of the company.
