Sorry? 56 is OLD. I don't care what you old farts keep telling yourselves.
if you are over 50 you are O L D.
I'm 43, so I'm dancing with old, and I'm at least mature enough to admit it when I cross the old threshold.
Old starts at 35.. At that point you don't heal as fast as you used to, and you notice that losing weight take a LOT more effort than it did at 32.
he was old. Grey hair Old. Wise old, not like idiot 20 somethings that are far too uneducated to understand they are not invincible.
Even our token Old/Young guy, Tony Hawk is acting old. I dont see him skateboarding off a ramp on the roof of a 10 story building anymore..
Killing customers makes the other ones scatter. Tazing them makes the others gather and want to kick the body. Tomorrow we are going to have several people killed over a 50% off price on a discontinued piece of crap at a walmart or other store. Americans have no qualms over killing each other to save some money.
And yes, I know this is America. This is how we do it here.
I do remember X crashing and Samba Crashing as well as other apps crashing, I dont remember any instances where the Core Kernel Crashed. I had linux as the core of a ISP from 1994-1999 and never had it crash on me outside of apps crashing and consuming memory.
"I suspect that the author doesn't know that "dark matter" isn't a synonym for "antimatter". The above paragraph, if true, would make the universe a very explode-y place."
Ohhh! I'm gonna sing the doom song!!!!
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Let me guess, you are one of those whiners that bitch even when you are being hanged to death with a new rope...
Bla Bla Bla.. I dont like pink rope....... Gaaaaaaaakk...
Amateur radio astronomer. Buddy of mine bought 12, 20 foot parabolic old TV dishes to set up in his back yard. he has recorded pulsars, and other really cool things using that dish array.
The neighbors have got to love him... the place looks like a NSA listening post.
"and spend some significant money to purchase radio equipment."
Really? Then this $59.00 dual band 2meter 440mhz handheld I bought off ebay must not exist then,,, Oh and there is a secret ham thing called "used gear" I can get you a 20 meter setup for less than $100.00 including the antenna tuner.
The only people that have to spend significant money are the fools that did not learn anything when they were testing and cant bring themselves to touch that yucky ooky used gear....
Cant send an email from the trail outside of callphone coverage. Yet I can chat with a fellow from 1/2 way around the planet in the evening while I sit around the campfire.
Also your "email" stops working at the drop of the hat when trouble happens, ask the Katrina survivors how well their cellphones worked. during and after the storm.
Republicans are obsessing over the horrible plight of the super rich. they will not agree until either they stop being idiots or maybe Chuck Norris shows up and kicks all of their butts.
"We no longer buy stamps to do things like pay our bills or send personal letters,"
You dont know anyone in the military then. WE buy stamps rapidly and send personal letters daily. and every single person that has a loved one overseas right now does the same. Just because your tiny view of the world does not is not an indicator that the rest of the world does.
Overdrive is trivial to strip the DRM and keep a copy of the book. It's based on Adobe's DRM setup that is so badly broken it's a single click to strip it.
Honestly, with the number of android phone cracked wide open why is there NO linux on them? OpenMoko was 90% there and all source available. Why dont we even have some "Linux for Droid" or other projects out there?
Honestly, a "Hardened" smartphone is something that many paranoid geeks would be all over, and the "uber 1337 hax0r's would wet themselves over such a thing.
The Plant manager needs to be fired on the spot. there is ZERO need to have a full connection from a SCADA system to any internet accessable networks.
An airgap for data is standard operating proceedure for these things. Hell even crap SCADA software like "wonderware" supports a unidirectional ethernet cable and UDB broadcasting of the data stream so that you can airgap it from the administrative computers doing data collection.
Note: if you don't know what a "unidirectional ethernet cable" is, think standard Cat 5 with the TX wires clipped off on one end http://www.stearns.org/doc/one-way-ethernet-cable.html and YES they do work PC to PC with the right settings or by using a switch where you can force a port on without negotiation.
No hacker on this planet can crack a system that is at the other end of this type of cable, unless he has physical access.
I was going to post links to the modems at Blackbox but discovered that single mode 2 pair fiber for outdoor is CHEAPER than buying copper CAT3.
Run fiber. It's far FAR cheaper and you never have to upgrade. and termination is brain dead easy and cheap now. I can terminate 24 fiber ends in less than 1 hour at lower than $3.00 an end, plus tools needed is less than $350.00.
Fiber is the answer unless you have dry pairs of copper in place. Then you can do it cheap by buying old smartjacks and routers to get 1.5mbps backbones, or get your hands on the right types of DSL modems and make your own DSL setup (depends on line quality for bandwidth, many get 2mbps at ditances > 8 miles on a dry pair.. Cringley had a post about it on his blog.
Stop being lazy and run freaking wire between the locations. you already have power there so you can run wire. you can use phone wire which is cheap and use ADSL modems for the links, again cheap.
Honestly there is no magical wireless setup that will handle the load, you have to run wire if you want to avoid performance issues.
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Sorry? 56 is OLD. I don't care what you old farts keep telling yourselves.
if you are over 50 you are O L D.
I'm 43, so I'm dancing with old, and I'm at least mature enough to admit it when I cross the old threshold.
Old starts at 35.. At that point you don't heal as fast as you used to, and you notice that losing weight take a LOT more effort than it did at 32.
he was old. Grey hair Old. Wise old, not like idiot 20 somethings that are far too uneducated to understand they are not invincible.
Even our token Old/Young guy, Tony Hawk is acting old. I dont see him skateboarding off a ramp on the roof of a 10 story building anymore..
Citations are easy in Calfornia, simply drinf 102mph on the highway, they will gladly give you every citation you ask for.
Nope I tend to not waste money on that hardware in servers.
Killing customers makes the other ones scatter. Tazing them makes the others gather and want to kick the body. Tomorrow we are going to have several people killed over a 50% off price on a discontinued piece of crap at a walmart or other store. Americans have no qualms over killing each other to save some money.
And yes, I know this is America. This is how we do it here.
He's just trying to swing the karma bar from "scourage of the wasteland" to something more on the good side of the neutral line.
All old rich guys do this. They do really nasty evil things to get rich and then spend a little of their trillions trying to buy back their soul.
I dont remember Linux crashing.
I do remember X crashing and Samba Crashing as well as other apps crashing, I dont remember any instances where the Core Kernel Crashed. I had linux as the core of a ISP from 1994-1999 and never had it crash on me outside of apps crashing and consuming memory.
"I suspect that the author doesn't know that "dark matter" isn't a synonym for "antimatter". The above paragraph, if true, would make the universe a very explode-y place."
Ohhh! I'm gonna sing the doom song!!!!
Let me guess, you are one of those whiners that bitch even when you are being hanged to death with a new rope...
Bla Bla Bla.. I dont like pink rope....... Gaaaaaaaakk...
I've worked the ISS using a handheld radio and a Tandy 100.
Sadly Packet radio is pretty much dead.
Ultimate geeky...
Amateur radio astronomer. Buddy of mine bought 12, 20 foot parabolic old TV dishes to set up in his back yard. he has recorded pulsars, and other really cool things using that dish array.
The neighbors have got to love him... the place looks like a NSA listening post.
"and spend some significant money to purchase radio equipment."
Really? Then this $59.00 dual band 2meter 440mhz handheld I bought off ebay must not exist then,,,
Oh and there is a secret ham thing called "used gear" I can get you a 20 meter setup for less than $100.00 including the antenna tuner.
The only people that have to spend significant money are the fools that did not learn anything when they were testing and cant bring themselves to touch that yucky ooky used gear....
Eeeewww... IT's got old people germs on it!
Cant send an email from the trail outside of callphone coverage. Yet I can chat with a fellow from 1/2 way around the planet in the evening while I sit around the campfire.
Also your "email" stops working at the drop of the hat when trouble happens, ask the Katrina survivors how well their cellphones worked. during and after the storm.
Knowing electronics is not a requirement anymore.
Most hams on the air are appliance operators and could not figure out how to fix their radios if they wanted to.
It's because you can prep for the test FROM THE TEST POOL. it's simply memorization. it's been that way for well over 20 years.
"You can also make them "one per customer" although customers will get violent if you try to enforce that just because it says so on the coupon."
Then you simply smile and say "bring it" as you reach for a tazer.
"You don't hate flood victims, do you?"
Well, looking at what happened with Katrina... Yes, the Congress does in fact hate flood victims.
Republicans are obsessing over the horrible plight of the super rich. they will not agree until either they stop being idiots or maybe Chuck Norris shows up and kicks all of their butts.
"We no longer buy stamps to do things like pay our bills or send personal letters,"
You dont know anyone in the military then. WE buy stamps rapidly and send personal letters daily. and every single person that has a loved one overseas right now does the same. Just because your tiny view of the world does not is not an indicator that the rest of the world does.
Overdrive is trivial to strip the DRM and keep a copy of the book. It's based on Adobe's DRM setup that is so badly broken it's a single click to strip it.
Have a Linux for smartphones?
Honestly, with the number of android phone cracked wide open why is there NO linux on them? OpenMoko was 90% there and all source available. Why dont we even have some "Linux for Droid" or other projects out there?
Honestly, a "Hardened" smartphone is something that many paranoid geeks would be all over, and the "uber 1337 hax0r's would wet themselves over such a thing.
"One well paid, skilled young person with a laptop has replaced 10's of on site 'lifer' technicians."
and that "skilled young person" is completely stupid and used a 3 digit password.
Sounds like the whole idea falls over pretty hard.
5 year olds can only handle about 6 pounds of tech, any more and they start dropping it.
Is a FRACKING SCADA system on the internet?
The Plant manager needs to be fired on the spot. there is ZERO need to have a full connection from a SCADA system to any internet accessable networks.
An airgap for data is standard operating proceedure for these things. Hell even crap SCADA software like "wonderware" supports a unidirectional ethernet cable and UDB broadcasting of the data stream so that you can airgap it from the administrative computers doing data collection.
Note: if you don't know what a "unidirectional ethernet cable" is, think standard Cat 5 with the TX wires clipped off on one end http://www.stearns.org/doc/one-way-ethernet-cable.html and YES they do work PC to PC with the right settings or by using a switch where you can force a port on without negotiation.
No hacker on this planet can crack a system that is at the other end of this type of cable, unless he has physical access.
Yeah, because a brainless fuckwad knows what I want more than me... How exactly did you graduate 3rd grade? Let me guess.. public skool.
good thing you will never get past drive through order taker at work.
I was going to post links to the modems at Blackbox but discovered that single mode 2 pair fiber for outdoor is CHEAPER than buying copper CAT3.
Run fiber. It's far FAR cheaper and you never have to upgrade. and termination is brain dead easy and cheap now. I can terminate 24 fiber ends in less than 1 hour at lower than $3.00 an end, plus tools needed is less than $350.00.
Fiber is the answer unless you have dry pairs of copper in place. Then you can do it cheap by buying old smartjacks and routers to get 1.5mbps backbones, or get your hands on the right types of DSL modems and make your own DSL setup (depends on line quality for bandwidth, many get 2mbps at ditances > 8 miles on a dry pair.. Cringley had a post about it on his blog.
Stop being lazy and run freaking wire between the locations. you already have power there so you can run wire. you can use phone wire which is cheap and use ADSL modems for the links, again cheap.
Honestly there is no magical wireless setup that will handle the load, you have to run wire if you want to avoid performance issues.