The copper in Ethernet cables that have been sitting for a while can form to the shape it's given. What this means is that the cable can work perfectly fine for a given server from the given port on a patch panel. You can then move that known good working cable over to another server in a different part of the rack and then discover all kinds of intermittent or non-existing network problems.
Cables that run from a wall jack to a patch panel aren't moving even if the cable does move and so may still work perfectly well for you. If your cables are old 100 Mbit ethernet than by all means replace them. However if you have cat5 and it supports gigabit than it arguably may not pay to upgrade. What are your needs and go from there.
Bottom line is that cables to and from a patch panel should be replaced, but the ones in the walls require greater scrutiny.
You know, if legitimate software could ever learn how to make software as resilient as malware the world would be a better place. Modern malware is getting close to nuke proof. Delete registry keys, dll's, multiple self healing packages, msi source code, custom drivers, service restarts, redundant services, monitoring agents, update agents to ensure the latest upgrade and so on - and that's just what I saw a couple weeks ago on a relatives computer. Have you tried removing some of the latest malware w/o removing the disk and operating from a different computer? Unless you do you can't/really/ be sure it's been removed. Modern malware has the ability to incredibly resilient and bullet proof
First, you have to remember that best practice says you never install anything in production before SP1 is released. Second, before you put something into production you have to test it, the bigger the enterprise the more testing you have to do. Third thing is that you have a certain amount of businesses that are small enough to assume that they can't get an enterprise license agreement, or lack the IT staff with enough experience to get one. About the only businesses that will go straight to Windows 7 (insert new OS here) are those small enough that they will actually use the install provided by Dell, HP etc.
I've worked as a consultant with design of large scale deployments (tens of thousands of PC's) across a number of organizations and I can assure you that anyone wanting to deploy the latest OS before SP1 would be considered incompetent and allowed nowhere near a client. The idea that any organization of meaningful size adopting Windows 7 right away exists only in the minds of marketing departments and naive users.
Providing individual examples of "good" leaks does not devalue my point. I have not attacked individual leaks, what I have derided is the site and it's lack of accountability. You'll notice that I held up the Smoking Gun, which is chock full of leaked material. The fact that the only verification made on the scientology papers that can be inferred comes after the leak only accentuates by point.
Legitimate newspapers serving the public interest work with leaked material all the time (pentagon papers are one such famous example). Journalists doing such work go to extreme measures to ensure their sources are genuine before publication. I would suggest you read up on Bob Woodward and some of what he has written about maintaining integrity when working with leaked documents that can destroy careers and take down powerful politicians. Wikileaks has no such integrity and accepts things wholesale (have you checked how many documents they have). It's a perfect scenario for committing defamation and so on.
So a site dedicated to flagrantly breaking the law, peoples trust, peoples privacy and holding itself above any law or moral standard on the planet gets taken down. Why should anybody be sympathetic? This is far from the case of the pirate bay where they - followed Swedish law (no downloads on the site) - refused blatantly illegal material - and provided a genuine service to the community. Instead wikileaks is a site dedicated to junior high antics of playing the bigger ass.
Think about it, this is a site based on breaking trust and that knows no moral grounds. Would they post detailed documents from Iran's nuclear weapons program if leaked, how about biological weapons, how a government database full of citizens information that would be perfect for identity theft? These are all documents that could be used maliciously by the wrong people. They can't even compare against sites that provide full disclosure for security vulnerabilities when vendors fail to take action.
This isn't a genuine censorship fighting site like a proxy used to bypass the great wall of China, they don't provide services like the Pirate Bay, all they do is play tattle tale to the world. They aren't even a genuine anti-censorship site as they do no meaningful fact checking. Compare them to a respectable site like the smoking gun which actually fact checks their material - and as a result has never been successfully sued. Just ask yourself what do you expect from a wikipedia spin-off?
No, I'm not opposed to open source, file torrents or the like, I also pretty firmly oppose censorship. It's sites like wikileaks that make those that oppose censorship look like extremists. Wikileaks doesn't deserve the communities support, unlike so many other sites that do. The best comparison for wikileaks is a carders website with the biggest differences being that they have a larger selection and give everything away for free.
Republican lies? How are these Republican lies? Really, are you at all familiar with the EFF and the work that they do? Do you know who founded them, who runs the organization on a daily basis? Can you describe to me how they fit in the Republican agenda? Did you even read the article that was referenced to notice it was the EFF? Was your world view was shattered by a bit of truth?//Not a Republican - and sick of blind idiots that will overlook anything in the name of their cause. Stalin had a name for such people, he called them "useful idiots".
It's doomed because it's fundamentally flawed. When you can hire someone in India to crack them by the thousands (per day) for cheap wages, it's all moot. It doesn't matter what you do for lettering and whatnot when you have an intelligent human perfectly willing to solve them. They just happen to be in the employ of spammers. They make catchpas on the assumption it isn't worth someones time to crack them, the problem is they are placing value on time / labor expenditure at local rates and not those in India.
Tornado 101 for those who are curious, since this always comes up if I travel overseas.
1. Are tornadoes really that dangerous? Yes that can be very dangerous, capable of rendering concrete building to rubble in seconds. They can rip interstate freeways out of the ground and have been recorded of 1.5 km in size (the small fast moving ones are arguably more dangerous). However they tend to very erratic, they can destroy one house, leave the next door house intact and destroy the one after that. By and large they don't kill huge numbers of people, but they do a lot of damage.
2. Why don't people live away from where tornadoes exist? Because tornado alley is quite large, much bigger in size than the UK, arguably around Germany in size or larger (depending on how you measure tornado alley). Since your chance of encountering a tornado at your home in any given year is pretty small, people tend to view them about like they do the chances of being struck by lightning. Why abandon the midsection of the country on an oddball chance?
3. Are tornadoes all that dangerous? Nope, most are small in size and many never even touch down. It's a rare tornado that destroys entire towns.
4. Can they occur at night? Yup, they definitely can occur at night, (I've encountered one at night and it was pretty freaky).
I'm not a meteorologist or anything, I've just lived through a few and know these questions seem to pop up...
First, I agree with you about genocides, nobody has ever been willing to use a nuke to prevent genocide (how many people need killed before it becomes politically acceptable?) . Beyond that I suggest you study history, lets work this with a simply body count of the 20th century before and after nukes.
Boxer Rebellion through WWII - 103 million (45 years)
Now a brief rundown of body counts since WWII
France-Vietnam through Kosovo - 22 million. (55 years)
Bear in mind the world population of 1.5 billion at the startof the century and a population of around 6 billion at the end of the centure for a little perspective. Those 103 million killed through WWII are equivalent to a much larger number towards the end of the century. Nukes have not stopped genocides (outside of the genocide several countries have gone on record as offering to Israel). They have stopped is widespread world war and conquests of multiple countries (like the Soviets did pre nukes in a routine fashion). What wars their have been have been localized, limiting their body counts notably.
First, let's assume your client wants the 15 years for a valid reason and so on (a consultant should always ask why the client has certain requirements). That being said you should build a computer that is more forgiving. This means keeping the computer as cool as you can with as few moving parts as you can. It wont cost as much as you think, but does require careful planning.
This means you want a larger case with room for 120mm fans, and you want at least one in the front and one in the back. Buy the highest quality fans that you can, look at the reviews for the fans and avoid ones with flashing lights. Overspec the power supply by at least 50% of the requirements, ideally 100% and get a high efficiency power supply. Again you will want to buy a high quality component that has posted positive reviews. Check out HardOCP, they have some pretty good power supply reviews. The intention is to keep the ratio of the demand load of the components as low as you can compared to the capacity you can supply.
Next you want to get an Intel brand motherboard, they aren't fancy, they aren't any good at overclocking, but they have arguably the best quality control process of any mobo manufacturer. Make sure your board has been on the market at least six months to allow the 2.0 version to be out (where they work out the bugs found in 1.0 boards). Next you want an low power CPU that runs at a cool temperature. You now have a case to underclock your CPU - you want it to last a long time. Buy a third party fan for your CPU with heat pipes and a 120mm fan, again you will want to review this on sites like newegg.com
Do the same thing for your RAM, buy quality components capable of exceeding the load (speed / voltage) and underclock your RAM. While underclocking may come across as odd to some people, it has it's place as surely as overclocking does.
For your disks, buy a paid of flash disks and mirror them for redundancy, buy a simple DVD drive that has been out for a while and is not bleeding edge. Once you have your hardware get flash happy, and upgrade to the latest reviewed stable firmware of everything. Install your OS of choice, patch everything and run a burn in for all components for at least 24-48 hours.
After everything checks out teach your father how to use an imaging program to capture and restore an image. Last thing you do is make sure you have a copy of the image offsite.
The nuke has very effectively prevented WWIII from happening as the deterrent of MAD has proven to be histories most effective peace policy. The concept of non-proliferation, to keep nukes from spreading is one that that world has turned it's back on. You want to make the world a safer place, get real about nuclear programs run by countries like Iran and North Korea.
In the event that nukes were somehow magically put back in the nuclear genie bottle, countries would simply go back to larger standing armies. Conventional armies with conventional weapons have proven their ability to kill in large quantity time and time again.
Your comment is misguided, I also hold Clinton responsible for the DMCA and our Senators for passing laws etc. I certainly agree with holding congress critters accountable, unfortunately you did not carefully read my post, and have posted a reply that does not address my point. The point is that heavy handed action by the justice department has now publicly begun under the Obama administration.
The justice department has long taken direction for it's priorities from the president at the time. Since senior justice department lawyers are ex **AA they have directed the justice department to take a heavy handed approach on this type of matter. It was no different under Bush or Reagan with their priorities (war on drugs etc).
You are a naive fool if you think Obama does not have influence on such matters. He has already used his influence with those he appointed. Much as many people held Bush accountable for the actions of Justice under him (Patriot act actions and so) they must also hold Obama equally culpable.
Too many people are tied up in the idea that Obama is some kind of mesiah, that they forget to look into the facts. Look Bush was arguably the worst president in US history, but that is no reason to give his successor a free and unquestioned ride. This is the guy who chose Biden, long the media's lapdog and has subsequently posted top **AA lawyers to the justice department....
Bottom line is people need to hold Obama accountable for these things (he sets the tone for things in the Fed gov just as Bush did before him) and stop putting him on some kind of plinth.
I'm presently working a consultant for a company that had 4 people doing a single function. Management was previously convinced that they knew the product (SQL based) better than the the products manufacturer. Meanwhile the company (15,000 seats) decides to outsource all IT to another company as they were in desperate need of help. Other company has no such pre-conceptions and brings in me to look at what they had going.
I get on site, the previous four administrators are now gone. I check things out and discover things like the architecture is fundamentally flawed, documentation is wrong and must now be discarded on face value and redeveloped from scratch, security holes big enough to drive a truck through and a complete lack of best practices. Meanwhile I must undo their previous three-four years work, re-architect, document, upgrade and migrate everything.
The previous employees were incompetent, management didn't know better and now it will cost a fair bit of money to fix everything.
Government agency does the right thing with trying to protect data and people still complain about it. Get real, not everything is a conspiracy, ok? The flash disks are government property, not personal, so why is anyone complaining.
Government and private sector agencies destroy used disks every single day using methods from as simple as patterning 1's and 0's to smelting the platters. This happens so often that their are dedicated machines available to do it for you right up to dedicated companies that specialize in the destruction.
/me grumbles and wants 5 minutes wasted out of my life back now...
Unfortunately for you your track record disagrees with your promises. You and your website have a history of abuse and bias that rivals that of any on the Internet. Your management incompetence of Wikipedia is so bad that you have dedicated websites documenting it. From secret mailing lists to the junior high style politics that rule your sham open organization, you are incompetent.
The thought that Jimmy Wales, cofounder of Wikipedia could have an open site without abuse is laughable. You operate under the sham of an open community, yet exclude those outside a very narrow political agenda. Your a fraud, using open source principals as a smokescreen that presents your personal world-view set as fact to the world. I don't buy what your selling, and I'm calling your bluff. The sad thing is that this will probably make you a fair amount of money if more people don't start to see through you.
But then the wonderful thing about leading revisionist history is you can substitute your own revisions for reality....
You have fundamentally asked and answered your own question and don't even realize it. The fundamental reason is very simple, grad students are coming from the countries that will be able to provide meaningful employment to those grads. In other words, outsourcing, or at the very least the prospect of outsourcing has scared away your potential fellow American students.
It's a matter of economics, are you going to invest that much money and time in something when significant portions of the grad level work is being exported out of the country? With major corporations from the likes of Microsoft to IBM hiring principally outside the US in China and India, this is where the jobs will be and thus, where the grad students are coming from.
The real slap in the face of the whole thing is that said companies than have the audacity to complain that we don't have enough educated workers to provide a workforce here in America.
Wikipedia is attempting to index what, the Internet?
Wikipedia cites only popular persistant opinions of very narrow political persuasions. Pick a contorversial topic, it doesn't matter what it is, said writing is full of bias presented as fact often bordering or outright propoganda.
I have a problem when people assume that popular persistent opinions somehow equal truth, accuracy or science. I'm not the one who cited something. Besides, since when has it ever been prudent to ask readers of a story to provide their own cites?
I have done technical writing in one form or another for a decade now, providing a reliable cite is par for the course.
Your not one of those that thinks people have a duty to update wikipedia are you?
Is it to much to ask to get reference links with more credibility than wikipedia? I mean, come on, is it really that hard to find a credible source to reference? For pete's sake even wikipedia claims it should/not/ be sourced as a cite, only a starting point.
The co-evolution of the outsourced Indian worker being paid $1-$2 per hour to solve hundreds of catchpas per hour. Not to mentions various porn sites and warez sites where you have to solve a catchpa to get in, it just happens to be someone else's catchpa.
You want a catchpa for someplace like a bank to work? Simple, get the person to input something that was chosen off site and the would know. At best though it would still be security through obscurity and flawed.
Catchpas are fundamentally flawed, and as such are doomed to the dustbin of history like so many other things. Remember spam is a large business, if they have to outsource grunt labor (catchpa's), they'll do it. All you've done is add an inconvenience that solves nothing.
I'd love to be able to get something like this. I'm a technical consultant who travels and I have to remote into a lab server anytime I need to test / demonstrate something or the like.
I could easily run W2K3 server, SQL 2005 and host at least two VM sessions. One of these VM sessions would be a W2K3 server, with the other an XP client.
Since many of my clients tend to be places that are fairly paranoid I cant always access my lab remotely or hook up to their network. In essence I need a "lab in a box".
Just wait, a non lethal weapon was developed that won't kill people. Now people will complain that it causes pain. Well, what would you rather have, pain or death?
Did some work in an industrial environment that ran pretty hot some years ago. Hot enough that the ambient air temp in the general area ran 160f in the winter when the outdoors temp was 10f, the doors were wide open and the building was unheated.
I agree with the FooHentai about fiber, you want that, don't even bother with cat 5. You also want to work with your plant electrician and draw on their experience dealing with heat.
You are also going to want some kind of shield to run in front of the enclosure, even if it's just a piece of metal that maintenance installs. That shield will get fairly got, so keep it a good foot or so from your equipment. This will also stop some of the interference that whatever equipment your working will put out.
Get a proper industrial enclosure to put your equipment in, and expect to pay heavily for it. You can also get ruggedized switches like the Cisco Catalyst 2955S-12 that are designed for extreme heat conditions to begin with. Do as much shielding as you can, it can make a big difference on how effective your equipment works.
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The copper in Ethernet cables that have been sitting for a while can form to the shape it's given. What this means is that the cable can work perfectly fine for a given server from the given port on a patch panel. You can then move that known good working cable over to another server in a different part of the rack and then discover all kinds of intermittent or non-existing network problems.
Cables that run from a wall jack to a patch panel aren't moving even if the cable does move and so may still work perfectly well for you. If your cables are old 100 Mbit ethernet than by all means replace them. However if you have cat5 and it supports gigabit than it arguably may not pay to upgrade. What are your needs and go from there.
Bottom line is that cables to and from a patch panel should be replaced, but the ones in the walls require greater scrutiny.
You know, if legitimate software could ever learn how to make software as resilient as malware the world would be a better place. Modern malware is getting close to nuke proof. Delete registry keys, dll's, multiple self healing packages, msi source code, custom drivers, service restarts, redundant services, monitoring agents, update agents to ensure the latest upgrade and so on - and that's just what I saw a couple weeks ago on a relatives computer. Have you tried removing some of the latest malware w/o removing the disk and operating from a different computer? Unless you do you can't /really/ be sure it's been removed. Modern malware has the ability to incredibly resilient and bullet proof
First, you have to remember that best practice says you never install anything in production before SP1 is released. Second, before you put something into production you have to test it, the bigger the enterprise the more testing you have to do. Third thing is that you have a certain amount of businesses that are small enough to assume that they can't get an enterprise license agreement, or lack the IT staff with enough experience to get one. About the only businesses that will go straight to Windows 7 (insert new OS here) are those small enough that they will actually use the install provided by Dell, HP etc.
I've worked as a consultant with design of large scale deployments (tens of thousands of PC's) across a number of organizations and I can assure you that anyone wanting to deploy the latest OS before SP1 would be considered incompetent and allowed nowhere near a client. The idea that any organization of meaningful size adopting Windows 7 right away exists only in the minds of marketing departments and naive users.
Providing individual examples of "good" leaks does not devalue my point. I have not attacked individual leaks, what I have derided is the site and it's lack of accountability. You'll notice that I held up the Smoking Gun, which is chock full of leaked material. The fact that the only verification made on the scientology papers that can be inferred comes after the leak only accentuates by point.
Legitimate newspapers serving the public interest work with leaked material all the time (pentagon papers are one such famous example). Journalists doing such work go to extreme measures to ensure their sources are genuine before publication. I would suggest you read up on Bob Woodward and some of what he has written about maintaining integrity when working with leaked documents that can destroy careers and take down powerful politicians. Wikileaks has no such integrity and accepts things wholesale (have you checked how many documents they have). It's a perfect scenario for committing defamation and so on.
So a site dedicated to flagrantly breaking the law, peoples trust, peoples privacy and holding itself above any law or moral standard on the planet gets taken down. Why should anybody be sympathetic? This is far from the case of the pirate bay where they - followed Swedish law (no downloads on the site) - refused blatantly illegal material - and provided a genuine service to the community. Instead wikileaks is a site dedicated to junior high antics of playing the bigger ass.
Think about it, this is a site based on breaking trust and that knows no moral grounds. Would they post detailed documents from Iran's nuclear weapons program if leaked, how about biological weapons, how a government database full of citizens information that would be perfect for identity theft? These are all documents that could be used maliciously by the wrong people. They can't even compare against sites that provide full disclosure for security vulnerabilities when vendors fail to take action.
This isn't a genuine censorship fighting site like a proxy used to bypass the great wall of China, they don't provide services like the Pirate Bay, all they do is play tattle tale to the world. They aren't even a genuine anti-censorship site as they do no meaningful fact checking. Compare them to a respectable site like the smoking gun which actually fact checks their material - and as a result has never been successfully sued. Just ask yourself what do you expect from a wikipedia spin-off?
No, I'm not opposed to open source, file torrents or the like, I also pretty firmly oppose censorship. It's sites like wikileaks that make those that oppose censorship look like extremists. Wikileaks doesn't deserve the communities support, unlike so many other sites that do. The best comparison for wikileaks is a carders website with the biggest differences being that they have a larger selection and give everything away for free.
Republican lies? How are these Republican lies? Really, are you at all familiar with the EFF and the work that they do? Do you know who founded them, who runs the organization on a daily basis? Can you describe to me how they fit in the Republican agenda? Did you even read the article that was referenced to notice it was the EFF? Was your world view was shattered by a bit of truth? //Not a Republican - and sick of blind idiots that will overlook anything in the name of their cause. Stalin had a name for such people, he called them "useful idiots".
It's doomed because it's fundamentally flawed. When you can hire someone in India to crack them by the thousands (per day) for cheap wages, it's all moot. It doesn't matter what you do for lettering and whatnot when you have an intelligent human perfectly willing to solve them. They just happen to be in the employ of spammers. They make catchpas on the assumption it isn't worth someones time to crack them, the problem is they are placing value on time / labor expenditure at local rates and not those in India.
Tornado 101 for those who are curious, since this always comes up if I travel overseas.
1. Are tornadoes really that dangerous?
Yes that can be very dangerous, capable of rendering concrete building to rubble in seconds. They can rip interstate freeways out of the ground and have been recorded of 1.5 km in size (the small fast moving ones are arguably more dangerous). However they tend to very erratic, they can destroy one house, leave the next door house intact and destroy the one after that. By and large they don't kill huge numbers of people, but they do a lot of damage.
2. Why don't people live away from where tornadoes exist?
Because tornado alley is quite large, much bigger in size than the UK, arguably around Germany in size or larger (depending on how you measure tornado alley). Since your chance of encountering a tornado at your home in any given year is pretty small, people tend to view them about like they do the chances of being struck by lightning. Why abandon the midsection of the country on an oddball chance?
3. Are tornadoes all that dangerous?
Nope, most are small in size and many never even touch down. It's a rare tornado that destroys entire towns.
4. Can they occur at night?
Yup, they definitely can occur at night, (I've encountered one at night and it was pretty freaky).
I'm not a meteorologist or anything, I've just lived through a few and know these questions seem to pop up...
First, I agree with you about genocides, nobody has ever been willing to use a nuke to prevent genocide (how many people need killed before it becomes politically acceptable?) . Beyond that I suggest you study history, lets work this with a simply body count of the 20th century before and after nukes.
Boxer Rebellion through WWII - 103 million (45 years)
Now a brief rundown of body counts since WWII
France-Vietnam through Kosovo - 22 million. (55 years)
Bear in mind the world population of 1.5 billion at the startof the century and a population of around 6 billion at the end of the centure for a little perspective. Those 103 million killed through WWII are equivalent to a much larger number towards the end of the century. Nukes have not stopped genocides (outside of the genocide several countries have gone on record as offering to Israel). They have stopped is widespread world war and conquests of multiple countries (like the Soviets did pre nukes in a routine fashion). What wars their have been have been localized, limiting their body counts notably.
First, let's assume your client wants the 15 years for a valid reason and so on (a consultant should always ask why the client has certain requirements). That being said you should build a computer that is more forgiving. This means keeping the computer as cool as you can with as few moving parts as you can. It wont cost as much as you think, but does require careful planning.
This means you want a larger case with room for 120mm fans, and you want at least one in the front and one in the back. Buy the highest quality fans that you can, look at the reviews for the fans and avoid ones with flashing lights. Overspec the power supply by at least 50% of the requirements, ideally 100% and get a high efficiency power supply. Again you will want to buy a high quality component that has posted positive reviews. Check out HardOCP, they have some pretty good power supply reviews. The intention is to keep the ratio of the demand load of the components as low as you can compared to the capacity you can supply.
Next you want to get an Intel brand motherboard, they aren't fancy, they aren't any good at overclocking, but they have arguably the best quality control process of any mobo manufacturer. Make sure your board has been on the market at least six months to allow the 2.0 version to be out (where they work out the bugs found in 1.0 boards). Next you want an low power CPU that runs at a cool temperature. You now have a case to underclock your CPU - you want it to last a long time. Buy a third party fan for your CPU with heat pipes and a 120mm fan, again you will want to review this on sites like newegg.com
Do the same thing for your RAM, buy quality components capable of exceeding the load (speed / voltage) and underclock your RAM. While underclocking may come across as odd to some people, it has it's place as surely as overclocking does.
For your disks, buy a paid of flash disks and mirror them for redundancy, buy a simple DVD drive that has been out for a while and is not bleeding edge. Once you have your hardware get flash happy, and upgrade to the latest reviewed stable firmware of everything. Install your OS of choice, patch everything and run a burn in for all components for at least 24-48 hours.
After everything checks out teach your father how to use an imaging program to capture and restore an image. Last thing you do is make sure you have a copy of the image offsite.
The nuke has very effectively prevented WWIII from happening as the deterrent of MAD has proven to be histories most effective peace policy. The concept of non-proliferation, to keep nukes from spreading is one that that world has turned it's back on. You want to make the world a safer place, get real about nuclear programs run by countries like Iran and North Korea.
In the event that nukes were somehow magically put back in the nuclear genie bottle, countries would simply go back to larger standing armies. Conventional armies with conventional weapons have proven their ability to kill in large quantity time and time again.
Your comment is misguided, I also hold Clinton responsible for the DMCA and our Senators for passing laws etc. I certainly agree with holding congress critters accountable, unfortunately you did not carefully read my post, and have posted a reply that does not address my point. The point is that heavy handed action by the justice department has now publicly begun under the Obama administration.
The justice department has long taken direction for it's priorities from the president at the time. Since senior justice department lawyers are ex **AA they have directed the justice department to take a heavy handed approach on this type of matter. It was no different under Bush or Reagan with their priorities (war on drugs etc).
You are a naive fool if you think Obama does not have influence on such matters. He has already used his influence with those he appointed. Much as many people held Bush accountable for the actions of Justice under him (Patriot act actions and so) they must also hold Obama equally culpable.
Bottom line is people need to hold Obama accountable for these things (he sets the tone for things in the Fed gov just as Bush did before him) and stop putting him on some kind of plinth.
I get on site, the previous four administrators are now gone. I check things out and discover things like the architecture is fundamentally flawed, documentation is wrong and must now be discarded on face value and redeveloped from scratch, security holes big enough to drive a truck through and a complete lack of best practices. Meanwhile I must undo their previous three-four years work, re-architect, document, upgrade and migrate everything.
The previous employees were incompetent, management didn't know better and now it will cost a fair bit of money to fix everything.
hope the work things comes thru soon, it's really bad. one idea - play with nwn mod, im getting that going now....
thought you gave up this place.. ping me later
Government and private sector agencies destroy used disks every single day using methods from as simple as patterning 1's and 0's to smelting the platters. This happens so often that their are dedicated machines available to do it for you right up to dedicated companies that specialize in the destruction.
The thought that Jimmy Wales, cofounder of Wikipedia could have an open site without abuse is laughable. You operate under the sham of an open community, yet exclude those outside a very narrow political agenda. Your a fraud, using open source principals as a smokescreen that presents your personal world-view set as fact to the world. I don't buy what your selling, and I'm calling your bluff. The sad thing is that this will probably make you a fair amount of money if more people don't start to see through you.
But then the wonderful thing about leading revisionist history is you can substitute your own revisions for reality....
It's a matter of economics, are you going to invest that much money and time in something when significant portions of the grad level work is being exported out of the country? With major corporations from the likes of Microsoft to IBM hiring principally outside the US in China and India, this is where the jobs will be and thus, where the grad students are coming from.
The real slap in the face of the whole thing is that said companies than have the audacity to complain that we don't have enough educated workers to provide a workforce here in America.
Wikipedia is attempting to index what, the Internet? Wikipedia cites only popular persistant opinions of very narrow political persuasions. Pick a contorversial topic, it doesn't matter what it is, said writing is full of bias presented as fact often bordering or outright propoganda. I have a problem when people assume that popular persistent opinions somehow equal truth, accuracy or science. I'm not the one who cited something. Besides, since when has it ever been prudent to ask readers of a story to provide their own cites? I have done technical writing in one form or another for a decade now, providing a reliable cite is par for the course. Your not one of those that thinks people have a duty to update wikipedia are you?
Is it to much to ask to get reference links with more credibility than wikipedia? I mean, come on, is it really that hard to find a credible source to reference? For pete's sake even wikipedia claims it should /not/ be sourced as a cite, only a starting point.
The co-evolution of the outsourced Indian worker being paid $1-$2 per hour to solve hundreds of catchpas per hour. Not to mentions various porn sites and warez sites where you have to solve a catchpa to get in, it just happens to be someone else's catchpa. You want a catchpa for someplace like a bank to work? Simple, get the person to input something that was chosen off site and the would know. At best though it would still be security through obscurity and flawed. Catchpas are fundamentally flawed, and as such are doomed to the dustbin of history like so many other things. Remember spam is a large business, if they have to outsource grunt labor (catchpa's), they'll do it. All you've done is add an inconvenience that solves nothing.
I could easily run W2K3 server, SQL 2005 and host at least two VM sessions. One of these VM sessions would be a W2K3 server, with the other an XP client.
Since many of my clients tend to be places that are fairly paranoid I cant always access my lab remotely or hook up to their network. In essence I need a "lab in a box".
Just wait, a non lethal weapon was developed that won't kill people. Now people will complain that it causes pain. Well, what would you rather have, pain or death?
I agree with the FooHentai about fiber, you want that, don't even bother with cat 5. You also want to work with your plant electrician and draw on their experience dealing with heat.
You are also going to want some kind of shield to run in front of the enclosure, even if it's just a piece of metal that maintenance installs. That shield will get fairly got, so keep it a good foot or so from your equipment. This will also stop some of the interference that whatever equipment your working will put out.
Get a proper industrial enclosure to put your equipment in, and expect to pay heavily for it. You can also get ruggedized switches like the Cisco Catalyst 2955S-12 that are designed for extreme heat conditions to begin with. Do as much shielding as you can, it can make a big difference on how effective your equipment works.