My neighbors car was burglarized, and the police asked if she wanted them to dust for fingerprints. Her response was that she didn't want to waste anyone's time if it was pointless and the detective assured her the evidence could be very valuable (granted we live in an upper middle income neighborhood, and there seems to be an outbreak of car break-ins).
I think the police want to help, but they don't want to waste time. I know Absoulte's Computrace (Lojack for laptops) web site claims the police are eager to follow up on their reports, because they usually turn up a lot more than just a laptop.
On the other hand, it took the police a week to call the GP back. I wouldn't expect that to work out so well in most cases. I would think having Absolute would help get a faster response.
I setup a fixed VPN for about 40 networks using IPSec. It wasn't terribly painful, but I did go with a Hub and spoke configuration instead of a full mesh.
I use an IPSec with L2TP network at my office all the time. We have a proper CA and certificates issued to each of the mobile computers. took about 2 hours to setup.
I have been through lots of Dell computers, personally and professionally.
I have just encountered my first time I can't get them to fix the damn machine. They keep replacing the motherboard, and there has to be something else wrong (The symptoms point to the motherboard, clearly. But 3 times? Its not the power adapter (tried one from another machine), or the battery. Its not the hard drive.
That pretty much leaves the video card, display, or heck, even the optical drive (I highly doubt), but they just want to replace the motherboard.
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Agreed. At BEST raid protects against some (most common) hardware failures, but it doesn't protect against ANY software or user failures.
And you are still vulnerable to fire, flood, lightning, or anything else that can take out the entire array at once.
Never let RAID replace backups. NEVER!
We use RAID 10 extensively on our main server, but we need every bit of both write and read performance for the database. We have 12 smaller drives in order to get the most IO operations per second.
Not every disaster can be contained if you have a single location.
If you want to have full protection, you need more servers, and to pay more $ accordingly.
If they have a fire the fire department isn't going to let them energize ANYTHING. even if the backup generator automatically turned on (the hardware could have been damaged), the fire department won't let them leave anything energized while they inspect.
I have the tilt and you can get to ctrl and Probably alt(meta) with the onscreen keyboard. I've never had any desire to use emacs on this, but vi needs esc, and nc needs ctrl-c.
The onscreen keyboard works, but I only use this in a pinch.
I liked the idea of the bluetooth stowaway, but at some point I'm just going to tether my laptop (either USB, WiFi Adhoc, or bluetooth).
Read Only access can still create locks. I haven't worked with Oracle enough (I assume it is MUCH better), but a simple read query can bring our MS Sql database to a grinding halt if it touches tables that are actively updated.
I have family in North Dakota, and In-Laws in Shiner TX (where they brew the beer), which is much closer so I visit more often.
Verizon certainly has better coverage in North Dakota (last time I was there I got a basic GPRS 2G connection , not even Edge's 2.5G.), but Verizon and sprint go DEAD in Shiner, TX. AT&T coverage works everywhere I need it too.
I still have a bad taste in my mouth from the Verizon V710 and the bluetooth debacle. If they are going to call my ability to transfer a picture from my phone to my computer without using their network a revenue leak then they just leaked a $250/month account to AT&T (multiple phones).
Last time I lost a hard drive due to a controller (only 60 days after purchase) I got the warranty replacement, swapped the controller, imaged the old drive, swapped the controllers back (so all the serial numbers would match), restored the image to the new drive, and returned the old.
It took 1 day, but only about 30 minutes of my time.
We use 8 Raptor drives with a 3ware 9550 controller in raid 10. The performance is spectacular (moving from a software mirror of two raptors to this cut many of our data processing jobs by 60-70%.)
Unfortunately these new drives won't fit in our case (which has 12 hot swap bays).
Here in Austin, TX our water, trash, waste water, and electricity are all provided by the city owned utility.
Our electric rates are quite a bit lower than in surrounding cities with commercial power, so its hard to complain, even if I don't agree with the principal. Our rates used to be among the highest (lots of natural gas generation).
I've been ticked by police hiding over hills (visabilty was enough I could have stopped and avoided hazards, but the cop 300 yrds away had me in radar range the moment I saw him) or in unmarked vehicles. I've also got ticketed once when the officer came over the hill from the opposite direction. I braked within a second, but the speed he accused me of was exactly how fast I had been going.
I got the most recent ticket when following another vehicle. It was going faster than me, but I still had it in view (about 3/4 mile). My theory being that they would get the ticket. Unfortunately an officer entered the freeway just after I passed the on ramp and paced me. I saw him accelerate before he even came over to my lane, but it was way too late. He accused me of going quite a bit faster than I was (he hadn't had a chance to really match my speed before I spotted him), but only wrote the ticket for 10 over, which was without a doubt slower than I was going.
Speed traps generate revenue. While most police officers are happy with anything that gets the public to slow down, those in power will want to keep the collections up.
This information is 2nd hand, but someone I knew did a presentation at the Pentagon. There were two laptops on the table and he was told they could use one for the presentation (he wasn't allowed to bring in his own laptop for security reasons). The laptops were on top of each other and he accidentally plugged the USB drive into the wrong one, the one for classified information.
Apparently they had a Sargent take the drive to another room and inspect it, then returned it. I don't know what violations took place. I do believe the person doing the presentation had some level of clearance, but certainly not the level required to use the classified laptop.
They aren't shaping based on individual downloads. They are going to shape all the traffic going to your cable modem as a single stream. There may be other outbound queues within the shaper to provide fair queuing and such, but that gets too complicated for this post.
Most shapers (including the ones in their broadband routers) allow a variety of parameters. You can set a sustained rate, peek rate, and burst size. For example a common implementation would have the following values (I haven't worked with Cisco QOS much, so it may be implemented differently but the principals are the same): sustained rate: 2mbps burst rate: 10mbps Max burst size: 10 Megabytes
The burst size counter is depleted as you download over 2mbps, and replenished when you download under 2mbps. When you download a 100MB file you will deplete the burst size at 8mbps. You can download at 10mbps for 10.5 seconds, at which point your download will drop to 2mbps and will stay there until you slow your transfer rate. If you stop downloading completely it will take 42 seconds to refill your burst counter.
It could certainly lead to more out of state drivers deciding to claim confusion and not pay at all. Most toll road authorities can't collect against the local offenders, I can imagine the out of state offenders are even harder.
For those holding off on getting the toll tags, the license plate readers are already tracking you. There is no point, privacy is a thing of the past.
Illinois is a state I plan to keep avoiding, but if I ever go, I would hope the toll road authorities around the country could eventually partner for interoperability of the toll tags so that we don't have to pay double just for passing through.
I don't have a strong position on this issue, but your claim here is very poor. Many state populations DID want it outlawed. Their congressmen passed laws and their governors signed them. Then the State of Texas was sued in the federal courts, and the Supreme Court threw out the state laws as unconstitutional.
It is reasonable to believe a similar law would be thrown out on the federal level, but do we want the federal government outlawing the practice?
Regardless of your position on the issue, should the federal courts have set the policy on this issue?
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My neighbors car was burglarized, and the police asked if she wanted them to dust for fingerprints. Her response was that she didn't want to waste anyone's time if it was pointless and the detective assured her the evidence could be very valuable (granted we live in an upper middle income neighborhood, and there seems to be an outbreak of car break-ins).
I think the police want to help, but they don't want to waste time. I know Absoulte's Computrace (Lojack for laptops) web site claims the police are eager to follow up on their reports, because they usually turn up a lot more than just a laptop.
On the other hand, it took the police a week to call the GP back. I wouldn't expect that to work out so well in most cases. I would think having Absolute would help get a faster response.
My wrt54g V4 may be a 12w device, but the power brick it came with is less than 50% efficient.
I went ahead and went with the VxWorks one for my mom. It comes with a much better switching supply. Hopefully it will work well for her.
So extend the spec with an alternative key exchange, but don't start over!
I setup a fixed VPN for about 40 networks using IPSec. It wasn't terribly painful, but I did go with a Hub and spoke configuration instead of a full mesh.
I use an IPSec with L2TP network at my office all the time. We have a proper CA and certificates issued to each of the mobile computers. took about 2 hours to setup.
I have been through lots of Dell computers, personally and professionally.
I have just encountered my first time I can't get them to fix the damn machine. They keep replacing the motherboard, and there has to be something else wrong (The symptoms point to the motherboard, clearly. But 3 times? Its not the power adapter (tried one from another machine), or the battery. Its not the hard drive.
That pretty much leaves the video card, display, or heck, even the optical drive (I highly doubt), but they just want to replace the motherboard.
Agreed. At BEST raid protects against some (most common) hardware failures, but it doesn't protect against ANY software or user failures.
And you are still vulnerable to fire, flood, lightning, or anything else that can take out the entire array at once.
Never let RAID replace backups. NEVER!
We use RAID 10 extensively on our main server, but we need every bit of both write and read performance for the database. We have 12 smaller drives in order to get the most IO operations per second.
What about VPN tunnels? People working from home are a core customer group they don't want to piss off.
Not every disaster can be contained if you have a single location.
If you want to have full protection, you need more servers, and to pay more $ accordingly.
If they have a fire the fire department isn't going to let them energize ANYTHING. even if the backup generator automatically turned on (the hardware could have been damaged), the fire department won't let them leave anything energized while they inspect.
I have the tilt and you can get to ctrl and Probably alt(meta) with the onscreen keyboard. I've never had any desire to use emacs on this, but vi needs esc, and nc needs ctrl-c.
The onscreen keyboard works, but I only use this in a pinch.
I liked the idea of the bluetooth stowaway, but at some point I'm just going to tether my laptop (either USB, WiFi Adhoc, or bluetooth).
This is why so many companies don't call it vacation, which is earned, but paid time off, which is accrued.
Read Only access can still create locks. I haven't worked with Oracle enough (I assume it is MUCH better), but a simple read query can bring our MS Sql database to a grinding halt if it touches tables that are actively updated.
I have family in North Dakota, and In-Laws in Shiner TX (where they brew the beer), which is much closer so I visit more often.
Verizon certainly has better coverage in North Dakota (last time I was there I got a basic GPRS 2G connection , not even Edge's 2.5G.), but Verizon and sprint go DEAD in Shiner, TX. AT&T coverage works everywhere I need it too.
I still have a bad taste in my mouth from the Verizon V710 and the bluetooth debacle. If they are going to call my ability to transfer a picture from my phone to my computer without using their network a revenue leak then they just leaked a $250/month account to AT&T (multiple phones).
Last time I lost a hard drive due to a controller (only 60 days after purchase) I got the warranty replacement, swapped the controller, imaged the old drive, swapped the controllers back (so all the serial numbers would match), restored the image to the new drive, and returned the old.
It took 1 day, but only about 30 minutes of my time.
We use 8 Raptor drives with a 3ware 9550 controller in raid 10. The performance is spectacular (moving from a software mirror of two raptors to this cut many of our data processing jobs by 60-70%.)
Unfortunately these new drives won't fit in our case (which has 12 hot swap bays).
Widescreen makes sense for movies. 16x9 is a compromise width.
When Televisions became popular movies went with the wider format to improve the movie experience. It fits our visual patterns better.
When doing development a widescreen allows me to layout my screen with all the extras on the sides and keep lots of room for code.
If what you are saying is true, the companies will be very disappointed when square doesn't sell.
Where I grew up someone entered a tank in the neighborhood parade every year. He installed rubber pads on the treads.
One year he unloaded the tank and then installed the pads in his driveway. It had to be repaved.
Here in Austin, TX our water, trash, waste water, and electricity are all provided by the city owned utility.
Our electric rates are quite a bit lower than in surrounding cities with commercial power, so its hard to complain, even if I don't agree with the principal. Our rates used to be among the highest (lots of natural gas generation).
I've been ticked by police hiding over hills (visabilty was enough I could have stopped and avoided hazards, but the cop 300 yrds away had me in radar range the moment I saw him) or in unmarked vehicles. I've also got ticketed once when the officer came over the hill from the opposite direction. I braked within a second, but the speed he accused me of was exactly how fast I had been going.
I got the most recent ticket when following another vehicle. It was going faster than me, but I still had it in view (about 3/4 mile). My theory being that they would get the ticket. Unfortunately an officer entered the freeway just after I passed the on ramp and paced me. I saw him accelerate before he even came over to my lane, but it was way too late. He accused me of going quite a bit faster than I was (he hadn't had a chance to really match my speed before I spotted him), but only wrote the ticket for 10 over, which was without a doubt slower than I was going.
Speed traps generate revenue. While most police officers are happy with anything that gets the public to slow down, those in power will want to keep the collections up.
This information is 2nd hand, but someone I knew did a presentation at the Pentagon. There were two laptops on the table and he was told they could use one for the presentation (he wasn't allowed to bring in his own laptop for security reasons). The laptops were on top of each other and he accidentally plugged the USB drive into the wrong one, the one for classified information.
Apparently they had a Sargent take the drive to another room and inspect it, then returned it. I don't know what violations took place. I do believe the person doing the presentation had some level of clearance, but certainly not the level required to use the classified laptop.
I have never had a problem putting any program I want to on my AT&T windows mobile phones.
They aren't shaping based on individual downloads. They are going to shape all the traffic going to your cable modem as a single stream. There may be other outbound queues within the shaper to provide fair queuing and such, but that gets too complicated for this post.
Most shapers (including the ones in their broadband routers) allow a variety of parameters.
You can set a sustained rate, peek rate, and burst size. For example a common implementation would have the following values (I haven't worked with Cisco QOS much, so it may be implemented differently but the principals are the same):
sustained rate: 2mbps
burst rate: 10mbps
Max burst size: 10 Megabytes
The burst size counter is depleted as you download over 2mbps, and replenished when you download under 2mbps.
When you download a 100MB file you will deplete the burst size at 8mbps. You can download at 10mbps for 10.5 seconds, at which point your download will drop to 2mbps and will stay there until you slow your transfer rate. If you stop downloading completely it will take 42 seconds to refill your burst counter.
It could certainly lead to more out of state drivers deciding to claim confusion and not pay at all. Most toll road authorities can't collect against the local offenders, I can imagine the out of state offenders are even harder.
For those holding off on getting the toll tags, the license plate readers are already tracking you. There is no point, privacy is a thing of the past.
Illinois is a state I plan to keep avoiding, but if I ever go, I would hope the toll road authorities around the country could eventually partner for interoperability of the toll tags so that we don't have to pay double just for passing through.
It merely listed it as the "existing benchmark of darkness" based on carbon.
The article goes on to say that the current darkest material is a nickel-phosphorous alloy.
I don't have a strong position on this issue, but your claim here is very poor. Many state populations DID want it outlawed. Their congressmen passed laws and their governors signed them. Then the State of Texas was sued in the federal courts, and the Supreme Court threw out the state laws as unconstitutional.
It is reasonable to believe a similar law would be thrown out on the federal level, but do we want the federal government outlawing the practice?
Regardless of your position on the issue, should the federal courts have set the policy on this issue?