I only buy very few individual songs that I really want from an online service. Most of the songs on a release (CD) are crap and I don't waste my money on an entire CD for one or two songs. Second hand purchases of albums, cassettes, and CD's yield the rest of my collection. I then rip the songs that I want from that purchased media and either resell or donate. I ripped my albums and cassettes year's ago.
Because for any other reason this might be called something else. What was that word again, for limiting access to information? Anyway, it's clearly for the children. They said so.
I'm ready to offer my technical services in exchange for some of that billion in cash. A child porn bounty hunter is going to be my new night job. It's all for the children. Oh, as a citizen, will I get to see where this billion is spent? Or is that top secret too?
This is easily extended to citizens of the US, UK, or numerous other counties. You should be wary of your negative comments towards the ruling power. Especially in electronic formats.
No problems with my Intel processor based systems, but blue screens at bootup on all of my HP and AMD processor systems. The fix is to boot into safe mode, change one value in the registry, reboot and viola! I'm back in business. Even granny could do it. That's probably why Microsoft failed to mention it.;) Oh, my Vista SP1 install on HP took six reboots and about two and a half hours. It failed the first three times. I'm going to make some money from these service packs!
If you've ever worked with government at any level you would recognize this situation as good planning. A senior IT person quit and I surmise that he mentioned to someone that the system was flawed, illegal, or both. It would be interesting to hear depositions of the past and present IT staff and aides involved in this process Even if we need to water board them. And disk and tape forensics is always an option, unless they were also "upgraded".
Here's snip from Sec. 5: "(b) Insert or attach or knowingly create the opportunity for an unknowing and unwanted insertion or attachment of a set of instructions or a computer program into a computer program, computer, computer system, or computer network, that is intended to acquire, alter, damage, delete, disrupt, or destroy property or otherwise use the services of a computer program, computer, computer system, or computer network. This subdivision does not prohibit conduct protected under section 5 of article I of the state constitution of 1963 or under the first amendment of the constitution of the United States."
I've heard this said before..."this can be quite annoying when trying to determine whether a client needs to switch over to a T1 or if their current ISP will suffice." It's a service that the ISP is providing on their network, learn to work with it. And this is a good reason why you should be trending the link utilization before making a recommendation.
Unless there is an problem with the link that can be immediately identified at the time you tested, like a physical problem, then you should develop a baseline of the customers network utilization. Generally, a single download provides insufficient information to in order for to give the employer or customers a recommendation related to their link utilization. This is especially important when the upgrade costs money.
Trending the link utilization is easy to do with free open source tools that will run on Linux, Windows, or a Mac. Or you can pay some $$ and buy software that will perform network utilization trending. Many protocol analyzers have this feature too. As a network administrator/engineer I expect that you can figure how how to tap the link or access the link devices network interface utilization, SNMP, RMON, or even NetFlow/sFlow information.
This is easy to do, just setup an extra PC or laptop on the customers premise for a week, just lock it down logically and physically. Free tools that I regularly use are Ntop (http://www.ntop.org/news.html) and Cacti (http://www.cacti.net). I'm sure that someone on this list can recommend a dozen other solutions.
These tools provide a graphical means to display the link utilization over time, providing greater information over a single download test, thus allowing you to make a more informed recommendation. And the graphics make nice additions to your reports! One scenario would be that the customer is seeing a slow down of their internet connectivity after lunch or late afternoon. Well, trending might reveal that indeed the network utilization peaks at these times when workers get back from lunch and just before they go home. And maybe it's only a few people hogging the bandwidth. On customer networks I've discovered P2P file sharing, large file downloads (movies and ISO's), and even infected computers used as repositories. The customer would have plenty of bandwidth if they just cleaned up that mess or better managed the limited resource with both technical or administrative (policy-based) controls.
"What would happen if the problem they claim to address was actually solved?"
Or the cosmetics industry, or...you name it. Treating "symptoms" is what makes this business world go 'round.
Just like a network of computers. (desktops, servers, switches, routers, whatever)
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"As with any NAS or backup solution for the home... Speed, Reliability, Cheap. Pick any two." I always say good, fast, or cheap. Pick two with ANY project. And maybe add EASY as an added requirement to the good, fast, or cheap for the home user.
Focusing on a network storage for the home. If your Linux savvy or have a friend who is, then for a home NAS I'd go with a cheap PC with as much disk space that you can afford, RAID, and Openfiler. Another option is BackupPC on cheap PC with added disk space, and your favorite Linux disro with LVM or RAID (so that you can expand the file system). And...M$ offers the Windows Home Server for someone set on a Microsoft solution.
Now this doesn't address the problem of theft or your house exploding. I feel that off-site storage for the home user is another good topic to discuss.
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I only buy very few individual songs that I really want from an online service. Most of the songs on a release (CD) are crap and I don't waste my money on an entire CD for one or two songs. Second hand purchases of albums, cassettes, and CD's yield the rest of my collection. I then rip the songs that I want from that purchased media and either resell or donate. I ripped my albums and cassettes year's ago.
Because for any other reason this might be called something else. What was that word again, for limiting access to information? Anyway, it's clearly for the children. They said so.
I'm ready to offer my technical services in exchange for some of that billion in cash. A child porn bounty hunter is going to be my new night job. It's all for the children. Oh, as a citizen, will I get to see where this billion is spent? Or is that top secret too?
This is easily extended to citizens of the US, UK, or numerous other counties. You should be wary of your negative comments towards the ruling power. Especially in electronic formats.
No problems with my Intel processor based systems, but blue screens at bootup on all of my HP and AMD processor systems. The fix is to boot into safe mode, change one value in the registry, reboot and viola! I'm back in business. Even granny could do it. That's probably why Microsoft failed to mention it. ;) Oh, my Vista SP1 install on HP took six reboots and about two and a half hours. It failed the first three times. I'm going to make some money from these service packs!
If you've ever worked with government at any level you would recognize this situation as good planning. A senior IT person quit and I surmise that he mentioned to someone that the system was flawed, illegal, or both. It would be interesting to hear depositions of the past and present IT staff and aides involved in this process Even if we need to water board them. And disk and tape forensics is always an option, unless they were also "upgraded".
Just wait a few more years and you'll see them patrolling overhead in your part of town.
Michigan law "FRAUDULENT ACCESS TO COMPUTERS, COMPUTER SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER NETWORKS Act 53 of 1979" http://legislature.mi.gov/doc.aspx?mcl-Act-53-of-1979
Read 752.795 Prohibited conduct. Sec. 5. http://legislature.mi.gov/doc.aspx?mcl-752-795
Here's snip from Sec. 5: "(b) Insert or attach or knowingly create the opportunity for an unknowing and unwanted insertion or attachment of a set of instructions or a computer program into a computer program, computer, computer system, or computer network, that is intended to acquire, alter, damage, delete, disrupt, or destroy property or otherwise use the services of a computer program, computer, computer system, or computer network. This subdivision does not prohibit conduct protected under section 5 of article I of the state constitution of 1963 or under the first amendment of the constitution of the United States."
Free speech maybe?
Goooooooooooo!
Unless there is an problem with the link that can be immediately identified at the time you tested, like a physical problem, then you should develop a baseline of the customers network utilization. Generally, a single download provides insufficient information to in order for to give the employer or customers a recommendation related to their link utilization. This is especially important when the upgrade costs money.
Trending the link utilization is easy to do with free open source tools that will run on Linux, Windows, or a Mac. Or you can pay some $$ and buy software that will perform network utilization trending. Many protocol analyzers have this feature too. As a network administrator/engineer I expect that you can figure how how to tap the link or access the link devices network interface utilization, SNMP, RMON, or even NetFlow/sFlow information.
This is easy to do, just setup an extra PC or laptop on the customers premise for a week, just lock it down logically and physically. Free tools that I regularly use are Ntop (http://www.ntop.org/news.html) and Cacti (http://www.cacti.net). I'm sure that someone on this list can recommend a dozen other solutions.
These tools provide a graphical means to display the link utilization over time, providing greater information over a single download test, thus allowing you to make a more informed recommendation. And the graphics make nice additions to your reports! One scenario would be that the customer is seeing a slow down of their internet connectivity after lunch or late afternoon. Well, trending might reveal that indeed the network utilization peaks at these times when workers get back from lunch and just before they go home. And maybe it's only a few people hogging the bandwidth. On customer networks I've discovered P2P file sharing, large file downloads (movies and ISO's), and even infected computers used as repositories. The customer would have plenty of bandwidth if they just cleaned up that mess or better managed the limited resource with both technical or administrative (policy-based) controls.
And if you have more time, then check out the list of even more network management tools at http://www.slac.stanford.edu/xorg/nmtf/nmtf-tools.html or http://www.ubuntugeek.com/bandwidth-monitoring-tools-for-linux.html.
HTH someone.
"What would happen if the problem they claim to address was actually solved?"
Or the cosmetics industry, or...you name it. Treating "symptoms" is what makes this business world go 'round.
Just like a network of computers. (desktops, servers, switches, routers, whatever)
"As with any NAS or backup solution for the home... Speed, Reliability, Cheap. Pick any two." I always say good, fast, or cheap. Pick two with ANY project. And maybe add EASY as an added requirement to the good, fast, or cheap for the home user. Focusing on a network storage for the home. If your Linux savvy or have a friend who is, then for a home NAS I'd go with a cheap PC with as much disk space that you can afford, RAID, and Openfiler. Another option is BackupPC on cheap PC with added disk space, and your favorite Linux disro with LVM or RAID (so that you can expand the file system). And...M$ offers the Windows Home Server for someone set on a Microsoft solution. Now this doesn't address the problem of theft or your house exploding. I feel that off-site storage for the home user is another good topic to discuss.