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Network World: Cisco will move the market towards all-in-one branch solutions
Cisco is moving towards integrating switching, routing, messaging, intrusion-prevention, network optimization, wireless LAN, VoIP, dessert topping and floor waxing into a single, all-in-one solution.
It's still all-too-common to see a patchwork of legacy products from different vendors in branch offices. There also is inconsistency in the capabilities at each branch. For example, some may have optimization, others may not. Some may have IDS; others may not. When companies install a consistent product line at their growing number of branch offices, it makes it much easier for the IT staffs to manage the equipment-and to roll out Web-based services.
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Network World: Feds pull the domain name plug on State of California
For a few hours, the work of the State of California government was imperiled because the U.S. General Services Administration - a branch of the Federal Government - decided to pull the plug on the ca.gov domain name.
In early September the Transportation Authority of Marin, a ten-person agency charged with managing transportation funding in Marin County, California, discovered that the servers that handled the agency's Web and domain name service had been hacked and were being used to create links to pornographic Web sites…
On Tuesday, at around 2 p.m., the federal organization responsible for managing the .gov top level domain pulled the plug on the ca.gov domain, according to Jim Hanacek, a public information officer with California's Department of Technology Services. The "ca.gov domain was removed as a valid address by the federal GSA, who has an office that oversees the use of the .gov domain," he said.
In the end, the ca.gov domain name was only saved because it takes 24 hours for changes to propagate through DNS servers. Ca.gov was back up and running within those 24 hours.
However, Governor Schwarzenegger warned that had they not acted so quickly, then SKYNET may have very well become self-aware and launched an attack against those it perceived as its enemies, ushering in Judgment Day.
The Soviet Union launched a small, round object into orbit around the Earth - the first time in human history anyone had ever done so. There was panic as people believed it was an intercontinental weapon or spy device of some kind, it was a propaganda victory for the Soviet Union, and it heralded in the Space Age.
People panicked, prompting the New York Times to clarify in its coverage:
The satellites could not be used to drop atomic or hydrogen bombs or anything else on the earth, scientists have said.
Although the line before it certainly seems quaint in comparison.
Military experts have said that the satellites would have no practicable military application in the foreseeable future.
