If you need to reply in voice to an alert while you are away from the office then tell your boss you will need a cell phone. Spring for a two line phone out of pocket and have the line added to your phone. There is a solution to everyone, especially if you have a flexible employer. (It is both personal and work, however work owns the number and can trivially transfer it to another phone for someone elses use).
You're right, the next time I notice some hottie in a mini skirt sitting near me and think "gee you can see straight up her skirt" I can chalk up my girlfriends response to "adjusting"? No thanks.
Or when someone is whining to you and you are trying to be that good friend/SO and all you think is "FFS JUST SHUT UP" or "Gee, I bet I could setup my computer to..." No thanks. This technology is for use when talking could be difficult. Someone else mentioned SWAT teams under helicopters and stealth operations. This could also be good for emergency people where sirens are blaring.
Seriously, this seems like a simple problem simple solution deal. It's not "No Cell Phones" it's "no presonal stuff" (to get lost, stolen, etc).
Simply go to your boss, show them your needs, and tell them you will now need a $20/month pager. Show them how handy it is, and let them know how nice it is to be able to know your server status remotly. Say, while working elsewhere in the building?
This isn't rocket science. Stop reading slashdot and go deal with the problem.
There is a local store which has been here as long as I can remember. I went in there one day in my endevour to find gainful employment. I was first struck by the number of "certifications" on the wall, most of them looked like they had been printed out himself. The owner was yelling at the techs to "just make it work" when the tech said he had a failed HD, because he wasn't getting a new one, etc. I talked with him for a little while, wasn't impressed at all about this guy. I left, never to look back. Anytime someone asked me about the place I just told em to stear clear.
Fast forward 3 years, I am related a story by a coworker of their friend who went there to buy a PC. The computer came with no discs, no "windows authentic" sticker, etc. Had a minor problem with it, and the guy refused to fix it, and said it would be $200 for the windows CD. I had my boss relay to them that what that guy is doing is illegal, and that I hope they paid with a credit card.
If the registry is gone, the application is gone, at least for most windows programs. The binaries being there is only half the story, if they won't run w/o the installer going again, then what use are they?
And yes, HPaq has shipped a clobbering "emergency" disc since I can remember. You put it in and your data goes away. Plus, to reinstall windows and get a "c:\windows\" folder is harder and harder these days. Back in the day you would get c:\windows.001 if you couldn't get at the drive to move the original folder, and not all applications use %SYSTEMROOT% to know where to install their libraries. Windows XP seeing a blank drive first and a NTFS drive second will make the second drive "C" and the first drive "F" (after removeable devices, your milage may vary), then procede to install on F. This is a BIG pain in the neck.
Consider you have a dead C drive, but a still living D drive, and D has your data on it, C is "disposable". Now you have C for data and F for windows. Again with the %SYSTEMROOT% problem.
Fifty Fifty. If you set the extensions to "OS 9.1 base" (or whatever) then reboot and the problem is still there, your extensions might not be the problem. I have had plenty a computer where a power outage or what not has caused various corruptions outside the \extensions or \preferences folder which make the machine unusable.
Either way, it can be much much faster to restore a Mac computer to a working condition (applications and drivers intact) than a windows computer. Assuming even that you have a slower mac, and equal network connections. Newer macs it's as easy as pop my FireWire drive onto the side of it, boot up, mount OS 9 discs to the desktop, and install. No pesky CD to wait on.
What I love about Windows, is that "reinstall the OS" means "format it and lose everything" from applications to pictures of your loved ones. Proper backups doesn't mean anything to most people in the world. Mechanical failure? Thats when my car won't start, right?
Mac OS has supported a "no clobber" install for years and years. You pop a CD in, hit reinstall OS, and it MOVES the system folder and makes a new one. It can even keep all your custom extensions if you want it to. It has, I dare say, every option you need to install. OS X has these features as well, archive and install, format and install, etc.
Why doesn't windows? Oh, right, no logical seperation from OS, Application, and Documents.
The only problem is, it doesn't work right. Mount/dev/hda1 to C:\ and install windows on it. Now move that install to/dev/hda2? What? No bootloader? Sorry, try again. In linux you can quickly edit/etc/lilo.conf && lilo and off you go.
Mount/dev/hda1 to c:\, then mount/dev/hdb1 to c:\mnt. Move a file between those two physical devices and it will finish instantly (NTFS and FAT32 allow you to just remap a file, right?). However, the file won't be there for a good while, until the physical devices catch up. This is a dangerous race condition in which I have managed to corrupt minor files. Having talked with other admins about this very problem, every one says "Don't bother, it's dangerous".
Have you looked at California recently? They are too afraid of being "elitist" to let kids accelerate. Screw trying to take another academic class instead of 4 semesters of PE. They made up their own tests when they found out their students were failing the national one. It had elementry math.
The students they pass today are passed because people are too afraid to FAIL them, or give them "F"'s. Have you talked to your local drive through person recently? Sometimes I want to punch people they are so stupid, teachers for greesing the wheels, the lawyers who SUE for kids who got bad grades, and the kids who do this sort of crap.
We had a teacher here get fired because she failed a rich kid. No Lie. Kid turned in no homework, did poorly on tests, and earned an F. The parents complained loudly, threatened to throw money at it, and the teacher was canned. End of story.
Neilson has some very dubious spyware that you can install which will track your web habits. No where, to my knowledge, on their website nor inside the application do they acknowledge what this software is actually doing.
I was once invited to be a "neilson computer" so I could show them how much porn the average 21 year old looks at, and trusting the name I installed the software. Honestly it was exceptionally easy to install, but did require a reboot. Then it just ran, small memory foot print but it only lasted about 120 seconds before I realized I couldn't see who what when where or how this software was collecting data. Uninstall was painless, almost no residue. (Log file or so)
So you have 5 sat's out back receiving your few hundred channel lineup. You receive all the channels your customers want, package them together and sell them. As of right now people can order premo-cable, cheapy cable, and somewhereinthemiddle. This is all over the same wire. When the new digital boxes are plugged in, they phone home to get their secret decoder ring which lets your box show you the various channels you pay for.
Now with a-la carte, you have competetive pricing for the various channels. FOX, ABC, CBS, NBC etc would be dirt cheap, because "everyone" watches them. Other channels would also be pretty cheap, because "a lot" of people watch them (CNN, MTV, History, TLC), and you would also have the more premium channels which no one watches. I would gladly pay the same price I do now if I could ditch 50% of the channels in exchange for ones I actually like. Sorry, home shopping and foreighn language channels would be right out. Discovery Health isn't even offered where I am, nor is the "international" history channel.
Sure some networks wouldn't get airtime anymore. If no one buys them, offer them for $600/month to cover the cost of a MPEG-2 decoder on the back end to receive it. Think of the statistics you could cull from this for marketing. Advertisers could further specialize what ads are seen on which channels, and know which ones get more eyeball time. Then, to simplify things, offer packages like in-n-out offers combos, just add up the cost of the channels, and charge customers that.
Drop the channels that don't get a 10% subscriber base. (IE: Channels that would cost the customer, say, $50 or more a month to keep) Comcast advertises Video on Demand, when they really mean "We have about 5 channels showing the same movies, just timeshifted 15 minutes". Yes, sometimes the same movie on adjoining channels starts at the same time. Channel 400 and 401 are both showing "Bambi" at the identical time. Usefull, isn't it?
Stupid story was at arby's I had never been asked for ID. Then one day I'm given a card to use and they finally asked. Sucks to be me.
At UC Berkeley they have strict security for the dorms. Whenever a student comes in or out you must first unlock the door, give the desk person your student ID to be swiped (make sure you do live here), then use same key to get the elevator/gain access to stairs. Guests must sign in with photo ID.
Some friends and I went to visit another mutual friend there one weekend. He is wheelchair bound, so doesn't always come to the door to let us in, etc. Instead he has people let us in, sign us in, and give us access to the stair well. Of course, sometimes it can be hard to find friends to let someome in, so he just gives us his ID card and key. That weekend 4 different people handed the desk clerk the UCB PHOTO ID to be swiped, then signed in one or more guests. We bought food, drink, and gained entrance to buildings with this ID, none of us look anything like him.
Breach smeach they aren't providing channels I signed up for, if you want out now is the time. Inform them that 50% of your TV watching is from CBS affiliates and that you want a 50% credit on your bill or you will go elsewhere.
This is about as funny as UCSB losing their contract for the second year in a row for birth control pills.
Sounds like you forgot the rule of thumb for corporate email. The higher up it comes from, the safer it is to ignore it.
I just Cmd-J anything I get from my fearless leader with more than 3 or so recipients. (Eudora, Cmd-J is the Junk button) The person literally FORWARDS SPAM to the "all" mailing alias that they demanded we setup. This person even flags emails as extremely important, some of them spam, none important.
Emminent Domain? Fine for the government, if I don't torch the buildings and send the source offshore. What are you gonna do with a buncha rubble? Something tells me if Microsoft tried to pull a power play like that it would have to be a complete relocation.
Pack it up, box it up, send it to some other country. Possibly use this Internet thing. Once it is secure in its new location, take all the hard drives to the national magnetics research laboratory (or build one if there isn't one!) and "remove" the data. Hire some cheapy bulldozer company to come level the place and haul it away. Technically the only time the government would probably even know is when the news gets wind that Microsoft is demo-ing their building.
I don't get why cost is such a great issue. Nor danger. As is, the thing floats around and does what we tell it to, how does that cost anyone anything? Rent it out to research institutions who want to take pretty pictures.
Danger? As opposed to, say, strapping a zillion pounds of fuel onto your ass and hurtling yourself at the moon/mars? There does come a point where maintenance on it could become cost prohibative, but why outright scrap the hubble before it scraps itself? Sell it to someone. I'm sure a few private colleges and universities could pull together the money they would need to maintain it, and are just dieing to use a lense as cool as the one on hubble. Rich Alumni are a great way to fund these things. Don't build us a million dollar building X this year, toss it in the pot and have your name on hubble.
You mean the necessary step of testing the MP3's for proper sound, lack of pops and clicks, etc, before copying them onto a limited use cassette? (Analog media degrades)
What about the necessary step of verifing your backups? Isn't it always good to every so often check that your backups still work as planned? (Bad sectors, "poofing" files, etc) If the analog media degraded, as cassettes do, I would hate to be stuck without my proper backups.
Remember, the consumer will always win. Big Brother can stop publishing their {music|movies|books}, close shop and leave if they don't like it. No one is entitled to business, with a few key exceptions. (Water, power, phone monopolies)
I do not know what he installed, however my Sony Cybershot is a OHCI Compatible USB Mass Storage device. I installed the few hundred kilobytes of drivers (Win98 first edition) and it worked like a charm as drive F or something. Copy the files to and from it, works like a charm. Same thing under FreeBSD. Attach the camera, cd/sony, and copy the pictures.
With windows 2000 and beyond, you do not even need the CD. Works fine on a mac too.
You do that. Be sure and lick your fingers before you touch those capacitors. This is a whole ton of voltage you are talking about here, it doesn't dissipate instantly unpon unplugging of wall power. It would take ages for your TV to turn on if it did. I'm not talking about the time of turn on to the point when you can see the picture, that is just the phosphors warming up.
Popular opinion, and some basic arithmetic, seems to indicate that when this is over, SCO proper is going to be flat broke, and Darl McBride, his team of lawyers, and other key people, are going to be living it up out of the country, from banks which don't keep names on file. A company in bankruptcy is easily dissolved. Contracts? I don't see any SCO Group.
You can almost see the first wire transfer or briefcase of cash being flown to Switzerland. I would like my withdrawl in used unmarked bills, please. Could you also make out that cashiers check to Tin Foil Hats, Inc.
That makes a heck of a lot of sense. I was wondering if anyone did something just like that.
Include essentially two BIOS codes, one simply a wrapper for the "real" one with the feature of detecting a single keystroke, and executing a copy. I believe that Cisco IOS supports this feature as well. Loading a IOS image over the console cable might be painfully slow, but it works.
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If you need to reply in voice to an alert while you are away from the office then tell your boss you will need a cell phone. Spring for a two line phone out of pocket and have the line added to your phone. There is a solution to everyone, especially if you have a flexible employer. (It is both personal and work, however work owns the number and can trivially transfer it to another phone for someone elses use).
I thought we would replace it with Fixed the Unholy by Christ the King?
You're right, the next time I notice some hottie in a mini skirt sitting near me and think "gee you can see straight up her skirt" I can chalk up my girlfriends response to "adjusting"? No thanks.
Or when someone is whining to you and you are trying to be that good friend/SO and all you think is "FFS JUST SHUT UP" or "Gee, I bet I could setup my computer to..." No thanks. This technology is for use when talking could be difficult. Someone else mentioned SWAT teams under helicopters and stealth operations. This could also be good for emergency people where sirens are blaring.
Seriously, this seems like a simple problem simple solution deal. It's not "No Cell Phones" it's "no presonal stuff" (to get lost, stolen, etc).
Simply go to your boss, show them your needs, and tell them you will now need a $20/month pager. Show them how handy it is, and let them know how nice it is to be able to know your server status remotly. Say, while working elsewhere in the building?
This isn't rocket science. Stop reading slashdot and go deal with the problem.
You're right, the RPC vulnerability wasn't a security hole. I voluntarily connected to the net without a firewall. :)
I also voluntarily used IE, surfed porn, and my homepage got changed, all my bookmarks were modified, and various "safe" activex exploits were used.
There is a local store which has been here as long as I can remember. I went in there one day in my endevour to find gainful employment. I was first struck by the number of "certifications" on the wall, most of them looked like they had been printed out himself. The owner was yelling at the techs to "just make it work" when the tech said he had a failed HD, because he wasn't getting a new one, etc. I talked with him for a little while, wasn't impressed at all about this guy. I left, never to look back. Anytime someone asked me about the place I just told em to stear clear.
Fast forward 3 years, I am related a story by a coworker of their friend who went there to buy a PC. The computer came with no discs, no "windows authentic" sticker, etc. Had a minor problem with it, and the guy refused to fix it, and said it would be $200 for the windows CD. I had my boss relay to them that what that guy is doing is illegal, and that I hope they paid with a credit card.
If the registry is gone, the application is gone, at least for most windows programs. The binaries being there is only half the story, if they won't run w/o the installer going again, then what use are they?
And yes, HPaq has shipped a clobbering "emergency" disc since I can remember. You put it in and your data goes away. Plus, to reinstall windows and get a "c:\windows\" folder is harder and harder these days. Back in the day you would get c:\windows.001 if you couldn't get at the drive to move the original folder, and not all applications use %SYSTEMROOT% to know where to install their libraries. Windows XP seeing a blank drive first and a NTFS drive second will make the second drive "C" and the first drive "F" (after removeable devices, your milage may vary), then procede to install on F. This is a BIG pain in the neck.
Consider you have a dead C drive, but a still living D drive, and D has your data on it, C is "disposable". Now you have C for data and F for windows. Again with the %SYSTEMROOT% problem.
Fifty Fifty. If you set the extensions to "OS 9.1 base" (or whatever) then reboot and the problem is still there, your extensions might not be the problem. I have had plenty a computer where a power outage or what not has caused various corruptions outside the \extensions or \preferences folder which make the machine unusable.
Either way, it can be much much faster to restore a Mac computer to a working condition (applications and drivers intact) than a windows computer. Assuming even that you have a slower mac, and equal network connections. Newer macs it's as easy as pop my FireWire drive onto the side of it, boot up, mount OS 9 discs to the desktop, and install. No pesky CD to wait on.
Well, I do have a PhD in physics
:) I must have missed that in my introductory physics course.
normally only a gazillionth of a watt
Which SI unit is a "gaz" again?
What I love about Windows, is that "reinstall the OS" means "format it and lose everything" from applications to pictures of your loved ones. Proper backups doesn't mean anything to most people in the world. Mechanical failure? Thats when my car won't start, right?
Mac OS has supported a "no clobber" install for years and years. You pop a CD in, hit reinstall OS, and it MOVES the system folder and makes a new one. It can even keep all your custom extensions if you want it to. It has, I dare say, every option you need to install. OS X has these features as well, archive and install, format and install, etc.
Why doesn't windows? Oh, right, no logical seperation from OS, Application, and Documents.
which has its own site hosted on a FreeBSD box running a MySQL database engine
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Imagine in 100-200 years
So much for a dieing OS. What about when this guys HD blows out or he stops updating the site?
The only problem is, it doesn't work right. Mount /dev/hda1 to C:\ and install windows on it. Now move that install to /dev/hda2? What? No bootloader? Sorry, try again. In linux you can quickly edit /etc/lilo.conf && lilo and off you go.
/dev/hda1 to c:\, then mount /dev/hdb1 to c:\mnt. Move a file between those two physical devices and it will finish instantly (NTFS and FAT32 allow you to just remap a file, right?). However, the file won't be there for a good while, until the physical devices catch up. This is a dangerous race condition in which I have managed to corrupt minor files. Having talked with other admins about this very problem, every one says "Don't bother, it's dangerous".
Mount
Don't even get me started on remote access.
Have you looked at California recently? They are too afraid of being "elitist" to let kids accelerate. Screw trying to take another academic class instead of 4 semesters of PE. They made up their own tests when they found out their students were failing the national one. It had elementry math.
The students they pass today are passed because people are too afraid to FAIL them, or give them "F"'s. Have you talked to your local drive through person recently? Sometimes I want to punch people they are so stupid, teachers for greesing the wheels, the lawyers who SUE for kids who got bad grades, and the kids who do this sort of crap.
We had a teacher here get fired because she failed a rich kid. No Lie. Kid turned in no homework, did poorly on tests, and earned an F. The parents complained loudly, threatened to throw money at it, and the teacher was canned. End of story.
Neilson has some very dubious spyware that you can install which will track your web habits. No where, to my knowledge, on their website nor inside the application do they acknowledge what this software is actually doing.
I was once invited to be a "neilson computer" so I could show them how much porn the average 21 year old looks at, and trusting the name I installed the software. Honestly it was exceptionally easy to install, but did require a reboot. Then it just ran, small memory foot print but it only lasted about 120 seconds before I realized I couldn't see who what when where or how this software was collecting data. Uninstall was painless, almost no residue. (Log file or so)
I assume this is where they got their stats.
So you have 5 sat's out back receiving your few hundred channel lineup. You receive all the channels your customers want, package them together and sell them. As of right now people can order premo-cable, cheapy cable, and somewhereinthemiddle. This is all over the same wire. When the new digital boxes are plugged in, they phone home to get their secret decoder ring which lets your box show you the various channels you pay for.
Now with a-la carte, you have competetive pricing for the various channels. FOX, ABC, CBS, NBC etc would be dirt cheap, because "everyone" watches them. Other channels would also be pretty cheap, because "a lot" of people watch them (CNN, MTV, History, TLC), and you would also have the more premium channels which no one watches. I would gladly pay the same price I do now if I could ditch 50% of the channels in exchange for ones I actually like. Sorry, home shopping and foreighn language channels would be right out. Discovery Health isn't even offered where I am, nor is the "international" history channel.
Sure some networks wouldn't get airtime anymore. If no one buys them, offer them for $600/month to cover the cost of a MPEG-2 decoder on the back end to receive it. Think of the statistics you could cull from this for marketing. Advertisers could further specialize what ads are seen on which channels, and know which ones get more eyeball time. Then, to simplify things, offer packages like in-n-out offers combos, just add up the cost of the channels, and charge customers that.
Drop the channels that don't get a 10% subscriber base. (IE: Channels that would cost the customer, say, $50 or more a month to keep) Comcast advertises Video on Demand, when they really mean "We have about 5 channels showing the same movies, just timeshifted 15 minutes". Yes, sometimes the same movie on adjoining channels starts at the same time. Channel 400 and 401 are both showing "Bambi" at the identical time. Usefull, isn't it?
Ooo funny story time.
Stupid story was at arby's I had never been asked for ID. Then one day I'm given a card to use and they finally asked. Sucks to be me.
At UC Berkeley they have strict security for the dorms. Whenever a student comes in or out you must first unlock the door, give the desk person your student ID to be swiped (make sure you do live here), then use same key to get the elevator/gain access to stairs. Guests must sign in with photo ID.
Some friends and I went to visit another mutual friend there one weekend. He is wheelchair bound, so doesn't always come to the door to let us in, etc. Instead he has people let us in, sign us in, and give us access to the stair well. Of course, sometimes it can be hard to find friends to let someome in, so he just gives us his ID card and key. That weekend 4 different people handed the desk clerk the UCB PHOTO ID to be swiped, then signed in one or more guests. We bought food, drink, and gained entrance to buildings with this ID, none of us look anything like him.
Breach smeach they aren't providing channels I signed up for, if you want out now is the time. Inform them that 50% of your TV watching is from CBS affiliates and that you want a 50% credit on your bill or you will go elsewhere.
This is about as funny as UCSB losing their contract for the second year in a row for birth control pills.
Sounds like you forgot the rule of thumb for corporate email. The higher up it comes from, the safer it is to ignore it.
I just Cmd-J anything I get from my fearless leader with more than 3 or so recipients. (Eudora, Cmd-J is the Junk button) The person literally FORWARDS SPAM to the "all" mailing alias that they demanded we setup. This person even flags emails as extremely important, some of them spam, none important.
Emminent Domain? Fine for the government, if I don't torch the buildings and send the source offshore. What are you gonna do with a buncha rubble? Something tells me if Microsoft tried to pull a power play like that it would have to be a complete relocation.
Pack it up, box it up, send it to some other country. Possibly use this Internet thing. Once it is secure in its new location, take all the hard drives to the national magnetics research laboratory (or build one if there isn't one!) and "remove" the data. Hire some cheapy bulldozer company to come level the place and haul it away. Technically the only time the government would probably even know is when the news gets wind that Microsoft is demo-ing their building.
I don't get why cost is such a great issue. Nor danger. As is, the thing floats around and does what we tell it to, how does that cost anyone anything? Rent it out to research institutions who want to take pretty pictures.
Danger? As opposed to, say, strapping a zillion pounds of fuel onto your ass and hurtling yourself at the moon/mars? There does come a point where maintenance on it could become cost prohibative, but why outright scrap the hubble before it scraps itself? Sell it to someone. I'm sure a few private colleges and universities could pull together the money they would need to maintain it, and are just dieing to use a lense as cool as the one on hubble. Rich Alumni are a great way to fund these things. Don't build us a million dollar building X this year, toss it in the pot and have your name on hubble.
You mean the necessary step of testing the MP3's for proper sound, lack of pops and clicks, etc, before copying them onto a limited use cassette? (Analog media degrades)
What about the necessary step of verifing your backups? Isn't it always good to every so often check that your backups still work as planned? (Bad sectors, "poofing" files, etc) If the analog media degraded, as cassettes do, I would hate to be stuck without my proper backups.
Remember, the consumer will always win. Big Brother can stop publishing their {music|movies|books}, close shop and leave if they don't like it. No one is entitled to business, with a few key exceptions. (Water, power, phone monopolies)
I do not know what he installed, however my Sony Cybershot is a OHCI Compatible USB Mass Storage device. I installed the few hundred kilobytes of drivers (Win98 first edition) and it worked like a charm as drive F or something. Copy the files to and from it, works like a charm. Same thing under FreeBSD. Attach the camera, cd /sony, and copy the pictures.
With windows 2000 and beyond, you do not even need the CD. Works fine on a mac too.
You do that. Be sure and lick your fingers before you touch those capacitors. This is a whole ton of voltage you are talking about here, it doesn't dissipate instantly unpon unplugging of wall power. It would take ages for your TV to turn on if it did. I'm not talking about the time of turn on to the point when you can see the picture, that is just the phosphors warming up.
Popular opinion, and some basic arithmetic, seems to indicate that when this is over, SCO proper is going to be flat broke, and Darl McBride, his team of lawyers, and other key people, are going to be living it up out of the country, from banks which don't keep names on file. A company in bankruptcy is easily dissolved. Contracts? I don't see any SCO Group.
You can almost see the first wire transfer or briefcase of cash being flown to Switzerland. I would like my withdrawl in used unmarked bills, please. Could you also make out that cashiers check to Tin Foil Hats, Inc.
That makes a heck of a lot of sense. I was wondering if anyone did something just like that.
Include essentially two BIOS codes, one simply a wrapper for the "real" one with the feature of detecting a single keystroke, and executing a copy. I believe that Cisco IOS supports this feature as well. Loading a IOS image over the console cable might be painfully slow, but it works.