As long as the platters are bent or even just slightly trashed, you're probably OK. The drive saver guys can't work with those. "Special expertise" is required. Even the "backed over with a truck" scenario requires working with a drive whose head/plater assembly is largely intact, then attaching a new circuit board if the circuit board has been smashed. They can open up the drive and do minimal repairs since they work in a clean room.
A coworker used to have a hardware device (used for testing as well) that would wipe a drive by repeatedly writing patterns, but multiple passes are required and it takes several hours (2 to 5 times what it takes to reformat.) It's cheaper to just take old drives outside and back over them repeatedly with your car until they are completely flat. "Repeatedly" is important to make sure the platters are thoroughly damaged.
If you are worried about whether some entity is going to recover data from your bent platters, well, you probably have your own special set of problems and should be more worried about checking under your car each time you get in, etc.
So, the way it works is India outsources jobs to the US, because there are shortages in India, and the US outsources to India, because there are shortages in the US, so India oursources those jobs to the US, because there are shortages in India, so the US outsources to India, because there are shortages in the US, so India oursources those jobs to the US, because there are shortages in India, so the US outsources to India, because there are shortages in the US, so India oursources those jobs to the US, because there are shortages in India,is that the way it works?
Meanwhile the EU and Russia and China kick our asses, since the only people in the US with jobs are the outsourcers and the people who scrub toilets for the outsourcers.
I stay logged in all the time. The only way someone is going to hack my system because of that is if they break into my house. If they break into my house (and survive) they stuff they get off any computer is the least of my worries.
Even if my computer is turned off, and they run away with the hardware, it doesn't take much skill to recover data off it. If you have physical access to the device, you can read it, regardless of the OS.
Which is why you need to use an encypting file system.
OTOH there are 10 times as many videos that take liberites with context. Jon Stewart has been airing them nightly.
Last night, an ad said something to the effect of "Joe Blow would let this man walk free!" "This man" was just a picture of some random black guy, poory lit in OJ-on-Newsweek fashion. For all I know the guy was in prison for jaywalking and probably deserves to go free.
But this has nothing to do with You Tube. Just how sad US politics has become, where this issues don't matter and all that counts is whether you're an agressive fascist punk, no matter what side you're on.
For all you non-'Merkins, the Allen contest has been particularly nasty, like tow chimps throwing feces at each other, except one side has more feces than the other. Thankfully I live in California.
With people like me in charge of the internet, you don't have to worry. I have a Master's in Civil Engineering, several course in wastewater engineering, and I'm a certified Water Plant Operator in the State of New Mexico!
Looks like the contest is designed to churn Splunk's membership roster, probably so they can meet their targets this quarter and the C[A-Z]O's can get their bonuses.
If that's a sufficient tradeoff for you receiving a shirt plastered with logos and a yet another entity sending you spam for life, OK.
>> The problem is that there are still a few lame-ass browsers, like the ones in my cell phone, only accept a small number of root CAs and won't allow cert importation, and have smoked the crack pipe of peace with Verizon.
Sorry, that came out wrong. My phone's browser only accepts Verisign and GTE as root CAs and doesn't allow me to import certs. So it's mostly useless. This is not Openwave's fault, the cert management is under the control of Verizon. Most likely they were just trying to make the phone idiot proof so they could sell their overpriced gansta ringtones with a minimum of hassle. That could be its own potential level of Hell: trying to explain PKI in a conversation between your average cell phone tech support and your average cell phone customer.
No tinfoil hat needed, Verizon simply sucks and people know to take their business elsewhere. For example, Thawte is almost as widely used as Verisign, enrolled in ALMOST every browser as a root CA, and their high assurance certs cost half as much as Verisign's.
There are lots of others, just as reasonably priced. These root CAs WILL call you back after you fax in your letterhead.
There is also evident competition, because dealing with Verisign is much less the exercise in frustration it was several years ago, although you are still well advised to take a tranqilizer or two to take the edge off the occasional rage you will experience when dealing with them. Their online documentation is quite good.
The problem is that there are still a few lame-ass browsers, like the ones in my cell phone, only accept a small number of root CAs and won't allow cert importation, and have smoked the crack pipe of peace with Verizon. So I can't reach half the SSL sites on the web with my phone. And so on.
So you perpetuate the factionalization of root CAs at your own risk, to some extent.
However, they feel just as dumb as everyone else after they've been suckered into paying an extra $1000 for a Verisign Super-duper Whiz-Bang Mega-Ultra Cert.
To be honest there is a difference between a cert from a real CA and some $10 cert from some outfit that doesn't care anything more about your true identity than whether your credit card payment goes through. Google for "high assurance" vs "low assurance".
>> Setting up the Nvidia drivers was way more problematic than it should have been
And yea verily as the sun shall rise in the East and the Pope is Catholic and bears crap in the woods, yea verily the setting up of the Nvidia drivers shall be way more problematic than it should be, thus is it written, amen.
Actually it was in fashion a few years ago when tere were electricity shortages to install smallish gas turbine gensets to run your house or business independently. I remember reading about a McDonalds in Chicago that had done such a thing.
As "the infrastructure" continues to fall apart, and energy prices are bound to spike again, and turbine technology becomes cheap and ubuquitous, I can see diesel turbines replacing IC as the power source of choice, even down to the hundreds of KW range.
That's only about 10,000 2-U rackable servers, not counting the AC and lighting. It's currently in fashion to install a 20 - 80 KW unit for your new McMansion.
I've been in lots if data centers large enough to accomodate that many hosts.
The question might be - Oh, no, are we overbuilding data center capacity AGAIN?
The other question - these genrators aren't in the basement, are they.
You'd be surprised how many of these "Hey Kid's Let Put on a Show" productions are commerically viable.
In my area, ALL of the "ethnic" (Indian, Filipino, Balinese, etc) music and dance productions are run this way, and the production values are top notch. This isn't the Podunk Town Players - for example, Austin Texas has (or used to have) a world-class Gagaku (Japanese) ensemble.
Maybe THIS is an example of "The Long Tail" (for which I got a mod point once for arguing that it applied to the Real World as much as the Internet). No, the local high school isn't going to produce "Lethal Weapon VI" or a Madonna album, but who needs that junk? There is more joy in producing than consuming.
As for tubes, as soon as Korea is reunited, or even if China annexes N Korea, they will have bright shiny new InterTubes and every N Korean will have a cell phone in a couple of years considering the enterprising nature of both their border states.
This is a company that builds data centers the size of stadiums and has them situated all over, with bigger tubes than you can possibly imagine. When you've got that much capacity, the extra tubes for even a big service like YouTube is not that huge compared to what you already have. Slap another couple Petabytes on your Google File System and you're done.
NOW they can index, distribute, etc, ALL THAT CONTENT with no strings attached. The World's appetite for lipsyncing teenyboppers, people with Pepsi/Mentos coming out of their nose, and kung-fu guys running up walls is insatiable.
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As long as the platters are bent or even just slightly trashed, you're probably OK. The drive saver guys can't work with those. "Special expertise" is required. Even the "backed over with a truck" scenario requires working with a drive whose head/plater assembly is largely intact, then attaching a new circuit board if the circuit board has been smashed. They can open up the drive and do minimal repairs since they work in a clean room.
A coworker used to have a hardware device (used for testing as well) that would wipe a drive by repeatedly writing patterns, but multiple passes are required and it takes several hours (2 to 5 times what it takes to reformat.) It's cheaper to just take old drives outside and back over them repeatedly with your car until they are completely flat. "Repeatedly" is important to make sure the platters are thoroughly damaged.
If you are worried about whether some entity is going to recover data from your bent platters, well, you probably have your own special set of problems and should be more worried about checking under your car each time you get in, etc.
Easy DIY project - the write-only disk drive!
Reminds me of the colleague who asked "What is the best program to convert files?"
Answer: "Well, rm converts files into free disk space very efficiently!"
So, the way it works is India outsources jobs to the US, because there are shortages in India, and the US outsources to India, because there are shortages in the US, so India oursources those jobs to the US, because there are shortages in India, so the US outsources to India, because there are shortages in the US, so India oursources those jobs to the US, because there are shortages in India, so the US outsources to India, because there are shortages in the US, so India oursources those jobs to the US, because there are shortages in India,is that the way it works?
Meanwhile the EU and Russia and China kick our asses, since the only people in the US with jobs are the outsourcers and the people who scrub toilets for the outsourcers.
I am so looking forward to this future.
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I stay logged in all the time. The only way someone is going to hack my system because of that is if they break into my house. If they break into my house (and survive) they stuff they get off any computer is the least of my worries.
Even if my computer is turned off, and they run away with the hardware, it doesn't take much skill to recover data off it. If you have physical access to the device, you can read it, regardless of the OS.
Which is why you need to use an encypting file system.
Oh no!
Whatever, I'm from Northern California anyway you insensitive clod!
OTOH there are 10 times as many videos that take liberites with context. Jon Stewart has been airing them nightly.
Last night, an ad said something to the effect of "Joe Blow would let this man walk free!" "This man" was just a picture of some random black guy, poory lit in OJ-on-Newsweek fashion. For all I know the guy was in prison for jaywalking and probably deserves to go free.
But this has nothing to do with You Tube. Just how sad US politics has become, where this issues don't matter and all that counts is whether you're an agressive fascist punk, no matter what side you're on.
For all you non-'Merkins, the Allen contest has been particularly nasty, like tow chimps throwing feces at each other, except one side has more feces than the other. Thankfully I live in California.
With people like me in charge of the internet, you don't have to worry. I have a Master's in Civil Engineering, several course in wastewater engineering, and I'm a certified Water Plant Operator in the State of New Mexico!
Back to work shoveling sludge.....
Looks like the contest is designed to churn Splunk's membership roster, probably so they can meet their targets this quarter and the C[A-Z]O's can get their bonuses.
If that's a sufficient tradeoff for you receiving a shirt plastered with logos and a yet another entity sending you spam for life, OK.
Finally, an antidote for sloppy bloated code - exploit child labor in 3rd world countries to test your product. Its elitist, I tell ya!
>> The problem is that there are still a few lame-ass browsers, like the ones in my cell phone, only accept a small number of root CAs and won't allow cert importation, and have smoked the crack pipe of peace with Verizon.
Sorry, that came out wrong. My phone's browser only accepts Verisign and GTE as root CAs and doesn't allow me to import certs. So it's mostly useless. This is not Openwave's fault, the cert management is under the control of Verizon. Most likely they were just trying to make the phone idiot proof so they could sell their overpriced gansta ringtones with a minimum of hassle. That could be its own potential level of Hell: trying to explain PKI in a conversation between your average cell phone tech support and your average cell phone customer.
No tinfoil hat needed, Verizon simply sucks and people know to take their business elsewhere. For example, Thawte is almost as widely used as Verisign, enrolled in ALMOST every browser as a root CA, and their high assurance certs cost half as much as Verisign's.
There are lots of others, just as reasonably priced. These root CAs WILL call you back after you fax in your letterhead.
There is also evident competition, because dealing with Verisign is much less the exercise in frustration it was several years ago, although you are still well advised to take a tranqilizer or two to take the edge off the occasional rage you will experience when dealing with them. Their online documentation is quite good.
The problem is that there are still a few lame-ass browsers, like the ones in my cell phone, only accept a small number of root CAs and won't allow cert importation, and have smoked the crack pipe of peace with Verizon. So I can't reach half the SSL sites on the web with my phone. And so on.
So you perpetuate the factionalization of root CAs at your own risk, to some extent.
However, they feel just as dumb as everyone else after they've been suckered into paying an extra $1000 for a Verisign Super-duper Whiz-Bang Mega-Ultra Cert.
To be honest there is a difference between a cert from a real CA and some $10 cert from some outfit that doesn't care anything more about your true identity than whether your credit card payment goes through. Google for "high assurance" vs "low assurance".
>> Setting up the Nvidia drivers was way more problematic than it should have been
And yea verily as the sun shall rise in the East and the Pope is Catholic and bears crap in the woods, yea verily the setting up of the Nvidia drivers shall be way more problematic than it should be, thus is it written, amen.
Actually it was in fashion a few years ago when tere were electricity shortages to install smallish gas turbine gensets to run your house or business independently. I remember reading about a McDonalds in Chicago that had done such a thing.
As "the infrastructure" continues to fall apart, and energy prices are bound to spike again, and turbine technology becomes cheap and ubuquitous, I can see diesel turbines replacing IC as the power source of choice, even down to the hundreds of KW range.
That's only about 10,000 2-U rackable servers, not counting the AC and lighting. It's currently in fashion to install a 20 - 80 KW unit for your new McMansion.
I've been in lots if data centers large enough to accomodate that many hosts.
The question might be - Oh, no, are we overbuilding data center capacity AGAIN?
The other question - these genrators aren't in the basement, are they.
You'd be surprised how many of these "Hey Kid's Let Put on a Show" productions are commerically viable.
In my area, ALL of the "ethnic" (Indian, Filipino, Balinese, etc) music and dance productions are run this way, and the production values are top notch. This isn't the Podunk Town Players - for example, Austin Texas has (or used to have) a world-class Gagaku (Japanese) ensemble.
Maybe THIS is an example of "The Long Tail" (for which I got a mod point once for arguing that it applied to the Real World as much as the Internet). No, the local high school isn't going to produce "Lethal Weapon VI" or a Madonna album, but who needs that junk? There is more joy in producing than consuming.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/dprk/ dprk-dark.htm (DMSP image of Korean Peninsula at night.)
As for tubes, as soon as Korea is reunited, or even if China annexes N Korea, they will have bright shiny new InterTubes and every N Korean will have a cell phone in a couple of years considering the enterprising nature of both their border states.
From my office high atop the wsanders tower in Downtown San Francisco, I can usually see 2 or 3 completely open APs.
How else would I be able to do my firewall testing?
So this crap costs $1.49 a can. A BigMac has, like 800 calories?
So you have to drink twelve bucks worth to burn off the effects of a your BigMac while sitting on your ass.
I'm proud to be an American! We are such clear thinkers!
but we "make up" for it in "volume".
http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/
OK, so everyone has alreay seen this...
Who drags and drops files anyway?
Give me PIXELS, not screen size. WHy do people bother with 19-inch LCDs if they are only 1280x1024? By 17-inch LCD at home is 1280x1024.
At work, I have a 21-inch old-school CRT cranked up to 1600x1400. PIXEL, PIXELS, PIXELS!
- to finding your search topic!
New OJFS Motto: "Used to be fast"
This is a company that builds data centers the size of stadiums and has them situated all over, with bigger tubes than you can possibly imagine. When you've got that much capacity, the extra tubes for even a big service like YouTube is not that huge compared to what you already have. Slap another couple Petabytes on your Google File System and you're done.
NOW they can index, distribute, etc, ALL THAT CONTENT with no strings attached. The World's appetite for lipsyncing teenyboppers, people with Pepsi/Mentos coming out of their nose, and kung-fu guys running up walls is insatiable.
Next? Maybe a Tier 1 or Tier 2 ISP?