It sounds like you may be using a landline, but just in case... The last few Motorola phones I've used have an an option under security to restrict incoming calls. One of the options is "Contacts", which allows calls from anyone in the contacts list to come through, but sends all other calls straight to voicemail. I'm guessing most other phones have a similar or semi-equivalent option (on a Nokia I did it by setting a default ring of nothing, and then all contacts to the ring I wanted - it still "rang" and the caller had to wait to get to voicemail, but didn't bother me with the call). It's effective, easy to change even for temporary numbers, and in an emergency anyone can leave a voicemail (never had a telemarketer do so, only legit interactions).
The one catch would be defining routing as being at the same encapsulation level as the packets to be processed. Otherwise a frame-relay or leased MPLS virtual link would effectively separate the two. Even ethernet is "routed" at layer 2, and a VLAN trunked through a third ISP would fall under that. Any non-free VPN provider could also have issues. It may be easiest to add an exception for a link or virtual link that is dedicated to transfer only between those two networks.
Why does having it with and on imply reachability? It's possible to have it handy but silent (or just ignore it). Just because a technology that has useful features can be annoying doesn't mean it has to be.
Studs are measured center to center, not edge to edge. That's where the 18" comes from. 16" sounds about right for between 2x4s (a bit off, but probably the closest round number). You have to measure from the center though to account for different thicknesses and to be able to reliably find them for screwing/nailing things onto the wall (or fit standard drywall sheets or other things with standard sizes).
If you break the server by installing/misconfiguring/changing configs, who will fix it? If the server goes down in the middle of the night/weekend due to configuration who will have to fix it?
If the first is not you, you don't get root. If you don't at least share responsibility in the second (eitherwhoever's on duty or gets to it first, or it stays down once it's determined it's your problem until you fix it), you don't get root.
While Nikon has been in that market for a while, they aren't the only one. Canon has the EOS Digital Rebel for under $1k now, which allows using all the EF series lenses, as well as offers a new EF-S mount (only one lens available) to take advantage of the smaller mirror so the lens can be set back into the body farther. They also have several other digitals all of which can use the full range of lenses from the macro up to the 1200mm with all the doublers, tilt shift, and other things too. Standard lenses mean all the filters and anything else you use with the film camera too. Besides those two Olympus is also in that market, as is Pentax (*ist D).
That's actually exactly what we did. The router/firewall has rules to log and send SMTP and port 135 to a monitoring box, and the monitoring box also asks the router every few minutes for a dump of 30000 ICMP packets or 5 seconds worth, whichever is less, and based on rules to define virus-like behavior (and likely spam - either is against the AUP) notifies Network Services and the Help Desk. If it identifies an individual responsible for the machine they automatically get notified by the incident system when it is created (there is a delay in dropping the MAC into a restricted VLAN, so if they're checking their email...).
Works very well, although the Help Desk is rather busy due to all the people stopping by to pick up patch CDs.
While I'm not working on any mp3 player plugins or anything so don't know the feasibility with current players, I like this idea a lot. Maybe a custom dedicated application without eyecandy (just play the mp3s, allow remote control/make sense changing stuff without the mouse)... It'd actually sorta make more sense in that app. You can skip within the normal randomness, or you can say to totally change types with a different button...
I've heard it depends on the person. Personally I've sat down at a machine to work on it (standard QWERTY) with my laptop sitting next to it (Dvorak) switching between them every couple minutes while debugging, and not even noticed I was switching until about a half hour later (when I was interrupted by someone). It seems easier with different styles of keyboards, the difference becoming subconcious. Even if I do get confused for a second, usually it's a couple keystrokes and then I realise and just start using the other layout right away without having to think about it.
Assuming it's to get the drives centralised or easier physical access rather than wanting them virtualized somehow, this Sounds like a good fit for fibre channel. You could have an array of drives and a switched network to connect the machines (within 10km IIRC). With the right filesystems you could even share drives between machines/do backups from another machine (I'm not sure how well that would work on non-unix systems though).
Hehe... I ran into that once, but also got one much better.
Someone I know figured he could figure out how to get the card installed without too much trouble. A couple days later he comes to ask for help saying it won't connect, the link light is on, but the thing is loose. Upon a quick explanantion of what he did, I still don't have any clue what he actually did and go to actually look at it myself.
The card was almost installed without taking the cover off the machine! He had unscrewed the card's metal bracket (and luckily saved it), since it wouldn't fit through the slot on the back and attempted to get it in. He cut a divider out of between two of the slots so he could get his fingers in. Needless to say the thing wasn't fully seated in the PCI slot, and I found the source of the looseness of the card.:) I removed the cover from the computer, reattached the mounting bracket, bent the divider on the case back enough to normal that it was out of the way, and screwed the card into place. Surprisingly the thing still worked, and worked for the entire rest of the semester.
In the past I had always encouraged people to try things on their computers - this event really makes me think about who I tell that too now...
If someone has a better story than this, I definitely want to hear it!
The LC series (TXM transitter for about $8, and RXM receiver for about $13), combined with a MAX232 chip, a couple capacitors and an antenna can make a 9600 link for about $25/end and a little bit of time. Just get a MAX on each end, a matched radio pair for one way, a matched pair on a different frequency for the other way (you could do half duplex, but...), and you're set. They advertise around 300ft for the LCs, and they draw 5v if I remember right.
They also have a couple other series with different characteristics (some with quite a bit higher speeds).
I see a big white blank area, just like ads on any other page... I use squid.redir with a custom set of rules, and find it very effective. I haven't seen an ad while browsing through the system in a long time. Last I checked the stats over 3 days indicated that for a 10k average for ads they would have been around 4MB of traffic out of 23MB total...
...if all the root name servers went down, at the same time (or close to the same time) then the internet would go dark within 48 hours.
Very true. The TTL on all the ns entries for the.com,.net,.org and.edu domains and the A records for the dns servers are 2 days on the root servers (.mil &.gov are apparently one day). 48hrs is a high estimate assuming everyone hit them right before they went down.
Why the issue of wanting to be a contact? I see a couple situations:
If they spam or something you can drop the zones from your DNS servers or change it to a system with explanations of what happened (where would you change their listed servers to if you could?). If they change away, who cares? If you tried to hold the domain they could quite possibly sue you...
If they don't pay their bill you can change the zone to point to your main servers (make it part of the policy). Then their domain and any advertising just benefit your site by drawing more customers (depends on the type of site it was, but there's probably almost always some traffic you'd like).
If they change to different servers, but don't tell you. If they're still paying, who cares? You use a few K of RAM and no traffic and get paid...
A couple days ago I started filtering all HTML email straight to the trash. I did this for a few reasons. The main reason is that 90% of "real" email is non-html (I told friends that they'd go in the trash and I wouldn't even know they sent it if they didn't fix their settings if on HTML), and 95%+ of hard-to-recognise spam (email "newsletters" from companies you've never used, etc) is html. What goes with this is that HTML email can have "web bugs" and other tracking in them too... You could be tracked just by reading an email (looking around before doing this I found this rather common). This has been mentioned before on/. and also other places, but people seem to keep forgetting. The filter has been very effective (all unwanted email over the few days its been), and only one bad filter (from someone who didn't know about it).
Sorta - the audio is digital on newer LDs, but the video is actually analog... That's why things such as laser rot are seen as speckles rather than digital artifacts, and also gives LDs the advantage of near-infinite horizontal resolution.
Hmm... I've never had a problem with 10 digit dialing in the last couple years across Minneapolis/St. Paul - since the 612/651 split. I've very rarely dialed 7 digits and have never gotten an error message about 10 digits except at the very beginning of the 612/651 split for a couple months. Is this a business system you're seeing this on?
Electronics Goldmine, despite the name, always seems to have a variety of stuff in their catalogs. They don't have the "one of a kind" stuff, but they have lots of odd little things that there aren't enought for most stores to carry...
I got an absentee ballot a couple weeks ago in MN, and mine was ovals to fill in - basically like the standardized tests but with a lot fewer ovals. I wonder if thats absentee vs regular ballot, or if it varies by location...
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It sounds like you may be using a landline, but just in case... The last few Motorola phones I've used have an an option under security to restrict incoming calls. One of the options is "Contacts", which allows calls from anyone in the contacts list to come through, but sends all other calls straight to voicemail. I'm guessing most other phones have a similar or semi-equivalent option (on a Nokia I did it by setting a default ring of nothing, and then all contacts to the ring I wanted - it still "rang" and the caller had to wait to get to voicemail, but didn't bother me with the call). It's effective, easy to change even for temporary numbers, and in an emergency anyone can leave a voicemail (never had a telemarketer do so, only legit interactions).
The one catch would be defining routing as being at the same encapsulation level as the packets to be processed. Otherwise a frame-relay or leased MPLS virtual link would effectively separate the two. Even ethernet is "routed" at layer 2, and a VLAN trunked through a third ISP would fall under that. Any non-free VPN provider could also have issues. It may be easiest to add an exception for a link or virtual link that is dedicated to transfer only between those two networks.
Why does having it with and on imply reachability? It's possible to have it handy but silent (or just ignore it). Just because a technology that has useful features can be annoying doesn't mean it has to be.
er, yea... I wasn't thinking residential walls. 16" center-to-center is right.
Studs are measured center to center, not edge to edge. That's where the 18" comes from. 16" sounds about right for between 2x4s (a bit off, but probably the closest round number). You have to measure from the center though to account for different thicknesses and to be able to reliably find them for screwing/nailing things onto the wall (or fit standard drywall sheets or other things with standard sizes).
Yea, fourth is a bit low.
If you break the server by installing/misconfiguring/changing configs, who will fix it?
If the server goes down in the middle of the night/weekend due to configuration who will have to fix it?
If the first is not you, you don't get root.
If you don't at least share responsibility in the second (eitherwhoever's on duty or gets to it first, or it stays down once it's determined it's your problem until you fix it), you don't get root.
While Nikon has been in that market for a while, they aren't the only one. Canon has the EOS Digital Rebel for under $1k now, which allows using all the EF series lenses, as well as offers a new EF-S mount (only one lens available) to take advantage of the smaller mirror so the lens can be set back into the body farther. They also have several other digitals all of which can use the full range of lenses from the macro up to the 1200mm with all the doublers, tilt shift, and other things too. Standard lenses mean all the filters and anything else you use with the film camera too. Besides those two Olympus is also in that market, as is Pentax (*ist D).
That's actually exactly what we did. The router/firewall has rules to log and send SMTP and port 135 to a monitoring box, and the monitoring box also asks the router every few minutes for a dump of 30000 ICMP packets or 5 seconds worth, whichever is less, and based on rules to define virus-like behavior (and likely spam - either is against the AUP) notifies Network Services and the Help Desk. If it identifies an individual responsible for the machine they automatically get notified by the incident system when it is created (there is a delay in dropping the MAC into a restricted VLAN, so if they're checking their email...).
Works very well, although the Help Desk is rather busy due to all the people stopping by to pick up patch CDs.
While I'm not working on any mp3 player plugins or anything so don't know the feasibility with current players, I like this idea a lot. Maybe a custom dedicated application without eyecandy (just play the mp3s, allow remote control/make sense changing stuff without the mouse)... It'd actually sorta make more sense in that app. You can skip within the normal randomness, or you can say to totally change types with a different button...
I've heard it depends on the person. Personally I've sat down at a machine to work on it (standard QWERTY) with my laptop sitting next to it (Dvorak) switching between them every couple minutes while debugging, and not even noticed I was switching until about a half hour later (when I was interrupted by someone). It seems easier with different styles of keyboards, the difference becoming subconcious. Even if I do get confused for a second, usually it's a couple keystrokes and then I realise and just start using the other layout right away without having to think about it.
Except collisions are a bit more touchy. You can't really resend people packets if they just don't show up at the other end.
Assuming it's to get the drives centralised or easier physical access rather than wanting them virtualized somehow, this Sounds like a good fit for fibre channel. You could have an array of drives and a switched network to connect the machines (within 10km IIRC). With the right filesystems you could even share drives between machines/do backups from another machine (I'm not sure how well that would work on non-unix systems though).
Hehe... I ran into that once, but also got one much better.
:) I removed the cover from the computer, reattached the mounting bracket, bent the divider on the case back enough to normal that it was out of the way, and screwed the card into place. Surprisingly the thing still worked, and worked for the entire rest of the semester.
Someone I know figured he could figure out how to get the card installed without too much trouble. A couple days later he comes to ask for help saying it won't connect, the link light is on, but the thing is loose. Upon a quick explanantion of what he did, I still don't have any clue what he actually did and go to actually look at it myself.
The card was almost installed without taking the cover off the machine! He had unscrewed the card's metal bracket (and luckily saved it), since it wouldn't fit through the slot on the back and attempted to get it in. He cut a divider out of between two of the slots so he could get his fingers in. Needless to say the thing wasn't fully seated in the PCI slot, and I found the source of the looseness of the card.
In the past I had always encouraged people to try things on their computers - this event really makes me think about who I tell that too now...
If someone has a better story than this, I definitely want to hear it!
The LC series (TXM transitter for about $8, and RXM receiver for about $13), combined with a MAX232 chip, a couple capacitors and an antenna can make a 9600 link for about $25/end and a little bit of time. Just get a MAX on each end, a matched radio pair for one way, a matched pair on a different frequency for the other way (you could do half duplex, but...), and you're set. They advertise around 300ft for the LCs, and they draw 5v if I remember right.
They also have a couple other series with different characteristics (some with quite a bit higher speeds).
I see a big white blank area, just like ads on any other page... I use squid.redir with a custom set of rules, and find it very effective. I haven't seen an ad while browsing through the system in a long time. Last I checked the stats over 3 days indicated that for a 10k average for ads they would have been around 4MB of traffic out of 23MB total...
Very true. The TTL on all the ns entries for the .com, .net, .org and .edu domains and the A records for the dns servers are 2 days on the root servers (.mil & .gov are apparently one day). 48hrs is a high estimate assuming everyone hit them right before they went down.
What am I missing?
Before everyone goes off on michael, did anyone consider that he may be using the dvorak layout? q and j are right next to each other...
A couple days ago I started filtering all HTML email straight to the trash. I did this for a few reasons. The main reason is that 90% of "real" email is non-html (I told friends that they'd go in the trash and I wouldn't even know they sent it if they didn't fix their settings if on HTML), and 95%+ of hard-to-recognise spam (email "newsletters" from companies you've never used, etc) is html. What goes with this is that HTML email can have "web bugs" and other tracking in them too... You could be tracked just by reading an email (looking around before doing this I found this rather common). This has been mentioned before on /. and also other places, but people seem to keep forgetting. The filter has been very effective (all unwanted email over the few days its been), and only one bad filter (from someone who didn't know about it).
Sorta - the audio is digital on newer LDs, but the video is actually analog... That's why things such as laser rot are seen as speckles rather than digital artifacts, and also gives LDs the advantage of near-infinite horizontal resolution.
Hmm... I've never had a problem with 10 digit dialing in the last couple years across Minneapolis/St. Paul - since the 612/651 split. I've very rarely dialed 7 digits and have never gotten an error message about 10 digits except at the very beginning of the 612/651 split for a couple months. Is this a business system you're seeing this on?
Electronics Goldmine, despite the name, always seems to have a variety of stuff in their catalogs. They don't have the "one of a kind" stuff, but they have lots of odd little things that there aren't enought for most stores to carry...
Or this story, or this story? It's been covered before...
I got an absentee ballot a couple weeks ago in MN, and mine was ovals to fill in - basically like the standardized tests but with a lot fewer ovals. I wonder if thats absentee vs regular ballot, or if it varies by location...