Re: D-Link: incompetent or evil?
- From: Philip Paeps <philip+usenet@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: 10 Apr 2006 21:32:15 GMT
Rick Jones <rick.jones2@xxxxxx> wrote:
Philip Paeps <philip+usenet@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingo@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Read this http://people.freebsd.org/~phk/dlink/
and judge for yourself.
Sad. I forwarded it to friends and relations.
I wonder if these guys actually _test_ their products thoroughly.
I'll go ahead and ask the naieve question - What sort of product test would
there be to test for adherence to a social contract?
Where I work, one of the (many!) checklists in the "requirements engineering"
phase of an embedded project would catch this sort of thing. When you're
designing something that is expected to "sit in a corner and just work", you
want to seriously limit the number of volatile external "dependencies".
An actual "test" that would catch this sort of thing, would be a simple
tcpdump when the product is "idle" to make sure any traffic it gnerates is
absolutely necessary and if it's "external" thinking about the sort of
quantities you're expecting to release in the wild and doing the maths.
- Philip
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