So this thing wanders around gathering its own firewood. How Neal-Stephensonian, a stream-powered terminator robot!
But, really, any high school robot team should be able to make a robot that wanders around the mall, or wherever electrical outlets are pletiful, and plugs itself in to recharge. For extra credit you could make one that shoplifts batteries at Radio Shack.
I bought my first copy of redhat back in the day, I was too lazy to download through my dialup access, and for $25 I got the CDs and a year of RHN support.
Actually, you pay about 10 or 15% more in taxes when you get married but don't have kids, and both spouses have about the same income. Basically, the tax rate for Married Filing Jointly is higher for a given income than the same Single rate for 1/2 that income. Plus deductions for things like mortgage interest deductions, RothIRAs, charitable deductions, etc phase our for MFJ filers at less than 2X the caps for Single filers.
So, yeah, unless you have kids, no one gets married for tax reasons.
I works because most strips have a fixed number of A they can provide - 10, 20, 30, whatever, and in most cases you will reach the capacity of the strip long before you fill all its sockets.
Especially if you have had to drop out of college because an evil computer company sold you a Linux PC instead of a Windows one, you are at least not stuck with slow pr0n downloads.
You can achieve substantial savings just by wiring your datacenter for 240V only (in the US). The rest of the world knows this already, but every time I suggest this in the US, people look at me like I have monkeys flying out my nose. Half as many amps == half as many power strips, half as many UPS devices, half as much wire, etc. With the exception of cheap-ass wall wart powered devices, I have not encountered any equipment that was not 240V compatible in the US in years.
If he's in PG&E's service area, same as mine, last I checked electricity was about 13 cents per kWh, but they have this premium pricing scheme called "baseline usage", which during the winter is a rather low figure, and your rate rises to something like 17 cents per kWh or more if you go over. "Baseline usage" is based only on your climate zone, not on the number of kids you have, whether you have electric heat (most people in the SF Bay Area use natural gas for heat), or whether you have EXTREME tech in your house.
Feel free to correct me on those rates, I don't have my bill in front of me.
The current model is that most providers lease space from a competitor for the time it takes to repair their own link. That's a hell of a lot cheaper than laying extra cable, or allowing your service to go completely dead. Ownership of the cable (like terrestrial lines) is a web of consortiums and leaseholds that make the cost of providing some redundancy a lot less than 2X.
They are not quite the same effects. The EMP from a Bomb is more or less like a lightning strike, it's a brief pulse of high voltage that fries components that can't tolerate high voltages. You mitigate it pretty much the same way you mitigate lightning.
The terrestrial damage from a solar storm is harder to mitigate. It is not so much a pulse as as chaotic voltages randomly induced in the miles and miles of powerlines hanging around everywhere. Think of the Earth hurtling through the loops of an Earth-size transformer primary.
Now if you know what to expect if you, say, bought a generator and plugged it in, unsynchronized, to the live mains, you can imagine that writ on a large scale. There will be lots of circuit breakers to reset, to put it mildly.
If you don't feel like spending $8K or $10K for a house sized unit to handle the once every 5 or 10 year multi-day outage, a 2KW generator will power your fridge, all your computer gear (unless you have a rack full of stuff), and a bunch of lights via extension cords. Modern fridges are well enough insulated that you only need to power them up for about 30 min every 3 or 4 hours, even less frequently when it's cool inside.
I can run our fridge off a 1KW Honda Eu1000 generator. It's quite portable, so I can use it for occasions other than the very infrequent outages at the house.
You will also want your generator to be quiet so it doesn't annoy you and your neighbors (and attract troublemakers.) The cheap generators you buy at auto stores are loud and poorly regulated, OK to run tools or lights but bad for your computers, and will not make you any friends if you take them camping.
You'll need something truly large and expensive (10+KW) to run heating or air conditioning for a whole house.
And you will, of course, test the generator monthly to make sure it works when you need it, right?
Ha. In my previous job, over the course of a couple years, I was asked on two occasions where the "any" key was. I swear this is true. And this was working at a telecom. I made a deal - I'd tell them where the "any" key was if they would tell me how VPLS works.
Actually, if you look in your Firefox built-in CA's, Wells Fargo has a couple of entries in there. I don't know *how* they got in there, of whether they work, but it looks like some kind of experiment in that direction.
Of course I would propose it's probably easier to get a bogus version of Firefox with evil CA's in a lot of PCs, than successfully set up a rogue CA, but when there are billions on dollars at stake, who cares how difficult it is.
Yeah, buy hardly anyone goes into that level of detail, so if you get called when you list yourself as a reference, you can either just skip the part about why you got fired, or else tell the truth and sue yourself for defamation and settle for millions.
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So this thing wanders around gathering its own firewood. How Neal-Stephensonian, a stream-powered terminator robot!
But, really, any high school robot team should be able to make a robot that wanders around the mall, or wherever electrical outlets are pletiful, and plugs itself in to recharge. For extra credit you could make one that shoplifts batteries at Radio Shack.
It was a friend of a friend!
It's like a crackhead calling 911 to report their stash got stolen. What do you expect will happen?
It's been two days and we're still in Iraq and the economy is still in the toilet AND NOW THIS?!!?
So, who wants Bush back?
Thought so.
I bought my first copy of redhat back in the day, I was too lazy to download through my dialup access, and for $25 I got the CDs and a year of RHN support.
This is how you are SUPPOSED to profit from OSS.
In California domestic partnerships have pretty much the same rights as married couples; community property is IIRC one remaining gap.
But, "separate but equal" is a discredited legal doctrine for almost everything else, why not marriage.
Actually, you pay about 10 or 15% more in taxes when you get married but don't have kids, and both spouses have about the same income. Basically, the tax rate for Married Filing Jointly is higher for a given income than the same Single rate for 1/2 that income. Plus deductions for things like mortgage interest deductions, RothIRAs, charitable deductions, etc phase our for MFJ filers at less than 2X the caps for Single filers.
So, yeah, unless you have kids, no one gets married for tax reasons.
I'm not sure what's more shocking, the number of outdated beacons or that 25 page views per second crashed TwitPic.
I works because most strips have a fixed number of A they can provide - 10, 20, 30, whatever, and in most cases you will reach the capacity of the strip long before you fill all its sockets.
Especially if you have had to drop out of college because an evil computer company sold you a Linux PC instead of a Windows one, you are at least not stuck with slow pr0n downloads.
You can achieve substantial savings just by wiring your datacenter for 240V only (in the US). The rest of the world knows this already, but every time I suggest this in the US, people look at me like I have monkeys flying out my nose. Half as many amps == half as many power strips, half as many UPS devices, half as much wire, etc. With the exception of cheap-ass wall wart powered devices, I have not encountered any equipment that was not 240V compatible in the US in years.
If he's in PG&E's service area, same as mine, last I checked electricity was about 13 cents per kWh, but they have this premium pricing scheme called "baseline usage", which during the winter is a rather low figure, and your rate rises to something like 17 cents per kWh or more if you go over. "Baseline usage" is based only on your climate zone, not on the number of kids you have, whether you have electric heat (most people in the SF Bay Area use natural gas for heat), or whether you have EXTREME tech in your house.
Feel free to correct me on those rates, I don't have my bill in front of me.
The current model is that most providers lease space from a competitor for the time it takes to repair their own link. That's a hell of a lot cheaper than laying extra cable, or allowing your service to go completely dead. Ownership of the cable (like terrestrial lines) is a web of consortiums and leaseholds that make the cost of providing some redundancy a lot less than 2X.
I took such a test, the result was "poultry technician". And here I am with a MS in Engineering, studying for my CCIE.
Is that list sorted by popularity, or by the number of years that prognosticators have been predicting that company will go out of business?
They are not quite the same effects. The EMP from a Bomb is more or less like a lightning strike, it's a brief pulse of high voltage that fries components that can't tolerate high voltages. You mitigate it pretty much the same way you mitigate lightning.
The terrestrial damage from a solar storm is harder to mitigate. It is not so much a pulse as as chaotic voltages randomly induced in the miles and miles of powerlines hanging around everywhere. Think of the Earth hurtling through the loops of an Earth-size transformer primary.
Now if you know what to expect if you, say, bought a generator and plugged it in, unsynchronized, to the live mains, you can imagine that writ on a large scale. There will be lots of circuit breakers to reset, to put it mildly.
.. if it ever figures out how to get a Yelp account.
> Does anybody know what happened to Verizon's much touted plan to provide open access?
I thought they had a much touted plan to never provide open access? Unless you count the $50/mo data plan.
I'm a customer, but I'm a luddite that does little more than place phone calls and a few text messages now and then.
"You are currently using 160 Million (2%) of your 7282 Million available versions of IOS. Why not upgrade today!"
Obama's account hacked with a dictionary attack?
Come on, he has people to warn him about this stuff. Assuming the account REALLY belonged to him.
If you don't feel like spending $8K or $10K for a house sized unit to handle the once every 5 or 10 year multi-day outage, a 2KW generator will power your fridge, all your computer gear (unless you have a rack full of stuff), and a bunch of lights via extension cords. Modern fridges are well enough insulated that you only need to power them up for about 30 min every 3 or 4 hours, even less frequently when it's cool inside.
I can run our fridge off a 1KW Honda Eu1000 generator. It's quite portable, so I can use it for occasions other than the very infrequent outages at the house.
You will also want your generator to be quiet so it doesn't annoy you and your neighbors (and attract troublemakers.) The cheap generators you buy at auto stores are loud and poorly regulated, OK to run tools or lights but bad for your computers, and will not make you any friends if you take them camping.
You'll need something truly large and expensive (10+KW) to run heating or air conditioning for a whole house.
And you will, of course, test the generator monthly to make sure it works when you need it, right?
Not NEW taxes. Plus a whole new scheme that invites cheating, hacking, and scheming.
Oh, well I am sure we will be able buy fake GPS reports from the same people we buy our fake handicapped and resident parking permits from.
Ha. In my previous job, over the course of a couple years, I was asked on two occasions where the "any" key was. I swear this is true. And this was working at a telecom. I made a deal - I'd tell them where the "any" key was if they would tell me how VPLS works.
Actually, if you look in your Firefox built-in CA's, Wells Fargo has a couple of entries in there. I don't know *how* they got in there, of whether they work, but it looks like some kind of experiment in that direction.
Of course I would propose it's probably easier to get a bogus version of Firefox with evil CA's in a lot of PCs, than successfully set up a rogue CA, but when there are billions on dollars at stake, who cares how difficult it is.
Leap seconds get added all the time. They can't be predicted years in advance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second
If you are running NTP or have a radio-controlled lock they will handle this just fine.
If you have a real atomic clock you don't care, atomic clocks never get reset.
Otherwise, you have a couple days to fix your bugs.
Yeah, buy hardly anyone goes into that level of detail, so if you get called when you list yourself as a reference, you can either just skip the part about why you got fired, or else tell the truth and sue yourself for defamation and settle for millions.