Posts by DanPittPaloAlto

After 84 years, Japan's Olympus shutters its camera biz, flogs it to private equity – smartphones are just too good

Re: Sorry to see them go...

I actually moved from Nikon to Olympus some years ago and never regretted it. Nikon was just too heavy to lug around. In recent years my son has taken my two OM-2 black bodies and all my lenses and still shoots film. In the last few years I have enjoyed many business trips to Tokyo, staying very near the Ginza, and visited many camera shops there to scoop up Zuiko lenses for him, including some real treasures like 35mm close focus and my favorite: 24mm f2.8.

I still admire their elegant design, kind of like Lotus cars: "Simplify, then add lightness". What he and I would really like is a digital camera with the OM-1 controls.

Stern Vint Cerf blasts techies for lackluster worldwide IPv6 adoption

Re: Sure..

This is a business issue, not a technical issue. Thus it's not up to the engineers to solve. No point getting angry.

Intel outside: Apple 'prepping' non-Chipzilla Macs by 2020 (stop us if you're having deja vu)

Re: Spelling

I believe you mean "led to", not "lead to" in the past tense. Unless you're talking about the pipes used to irrigate the olive trees.

Re: Intel's would still be the longest-surviving Mac instruction set

Or, as some comic wrote in IEEE Spectrum back in the late 1970s, a "computer [that] would recursively interpret itself and need no hardware".

Missed opportunity bingo: IBM's wasted years and the $92bn cash splurge

Re: Big assumption with that theory

OMG. Had to dig very deep in my long-term storage to remember this:

CTR: Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co., which became IBM in 1924.

I worked under Cary, Opel, and Akers. I liked Opel best.

HPE HQ to leave Palo Alto birthplace as it 'consolidates' offices

HPE is not HP

HP still exists, with the domain hp.com. It's what we call HP Inc. and it's doing very well on Page Mill Road and Hanover Street. They make PCs and printers and are not only thriving but also having a good time. No one at HPE seems to be having a good time.

Agilent should have kept the HP name and sent the rest off as Compaq.

Software-defined networking is dangerously sniffable

A Walk-in is Not a Break-in

As Executive Director of the Open Networking Foundation, I found the article and your posting drawing my considerable attention. (I am still learning to speak British.) We agree that the transmission of any data or control traffic across any open and unsecured communication path in any network is vulnerable; consequently, we recommend securing the control traffic in all SDN environments. Given that, we maintain that SDN brings notable benefits to network security. I have shared the article and your posting with our Security Working Group, and Vice Chair Dr. Sandra Scott-Hayward has published her response to it on our blog today. I encourage your readers to check it out: https://www.opennetworking.org/?p=2402&option=com_wordpress&Itemid=316.