I don't know what the pixel bit depth is, but as far as file size.. My D60 pumps out between 9 and 12 meg RAW files, and it's 6 megapixel. I imagine the 1Ds would do around 15 to 18 meg file sizes, maybe larger.
I don't think actual file size has anything to do with it, though, except for real estate. The RAW.CRW files are the actual bit for bit data from the CMOS sensor. It's more pixel sensor size, color accuracy, sharpness of the optics, and most importantly, photographer skill. Can't ever forget that. Even a $50,000 camera will not make a poor photographer into a great photographer.:-)
I like it. It's nice to come from a consumer digicam, and actually be able to get a lens that is fast enough to where you can shoot in low light without a flash.:-)
Yes, it's 11 megapixel, which is great for very large prints. This also means that photographers using the camera will have that much more space to crop and still come out with a printable photo.
The other advancement that is very important is that it is a full-frame CMOS sensor. 35mm film is 24mm by 35mm. Today's digital cameras use sensors that are smaller than this. The side-effect of this is that you end up with what some call a focal-length multiplier. The Canon D60 digital SLR has a 1.6x focal-length multiplier, meaning that a 100mm lens turns into a 160mm lens. It doesn't really multiply the focal length, it just crops the image to only record the center portion of the lens' field of view.
This is great if you want to really zoom in on something, but if you're looking for wide angle, you have to buy expensive super-wide angle lenses to get the same effect. Now with a full-frame sensor, you actually get the focal length of the lens you buy.
This is speculation, but I imagine the 's' in 1Ds stands for studio. The Canon EOS 1D is a great pro digital SLR - it has super-fast AF, is built like a tank, has seperate color spaces, and can shoot up to 8 frames per second! However, it's 4 megapixel. The 1Ds is 11.1 megapixel, and will probably only be able to shoot about 2 to 3 frames per second. Perfect for the studio - not that great for sports photography.
I'm very interested to see/hear about the other improvements Canon may have made in the 1Ds!
It's been said before, but, put your servers and routers and such in their own room. You don't need to be in there. They're machines that aren't supposed to need that much upkeep. Administrate them via SSH/VNC/whatever. They're also more secure in a dedicated room, and you can install a Halon system if the room isn't usually occupied by people.
In that room, it helps to have a raised floor to #1, route cables under, #2, provide a place to put more ventilation conduits, and #3, keep the racks off the floor in case of flooding. You'll want this room to have it's own Air Conditioning [1] and filtered electrical power. Your utility company can bring in seperate "clean" power to that room, or you can just give the room it's own few breakers in the breaker box and filter the power with a UPS system, depending on your needs and size. As far as UPS systems go, most server rooms I've seen have banks of batteries for this purpose, which run the entire room on nice, clean, uninterruptable power. The company I work for even has a diesel generator on the roof with a 2 day supply of fuel, which is tested every month.
For the actual servers and routers, do the obvious: use racks. If your servers aren't already rackmounted, invest in rackmount PC cases - they're not too terribly expensive these days. You can fit quite a few 4U servers in one rack. My company generally has one KVM cluster for each 1.5 racks (keyboard/monitor/KVM taking up shelves on.5 of one of the racks).
It's not hard to build a good server room, and it doesn't necessarily have to be expensive. It just takes some planning.:-)
- Eric
[1] This doesn't just mean keeping the temperature down. Most server room A/C units also closely control humidity, as too much or too little humidity and you have bad, bad problems.
I use the Kyocera QCP-6035, and find that it does everything I want it to. It's basically just a Palm 3 with cell phone capability. Sprint has them for like $150 right now, and I hear they can be had for cheaper.
I wonder what kind of easter eggs the bots might have in them.. I've found one thing that might be considered such:
(21:54:00) xxxx: Who's on first? (21:54:00) SmarterChild: Who. (21:54:06) xxxx: Then who's on second? (21:54:08) SmarterChild: No. Who's on first.
Heh! Too bad this didn't work:
(21:55:14) xxxx: What is your name? (21:55:15) SmarterChild: My name is SmarterChild. (21:55:20) xxxx: What is your quest? (21:55:21) SmarterChild: You know, I'm not really sure what my quest is... (21:55:28) xxxx: What is your favorite color? (21:55:29) SmarterChild: Depends on my mood. At the moment: yellow.
All in all, it seems like a pretty advanced bot, actually.
They've been talking about a Linux version of WWIV (what I used to run as well), but I don't think it's actively being developed. Kinda fell to the wayside. Here is the official webpage. I remember sending in my $50 to get the C source code back in the late eighties/early nineties to Wayne Bell.:-)
Hmmm. They may have just been temporarily slashdotted? I can still get to them at this link. If not, just go to Tiger Direct and do a search for 'Audrey'. And Tiger Direct is reputable - just look at the Audrey Hacking website, like, in the forums. You'll read lots of good things about Tiger Direct, at least as far as the Audrey goes.
I haven't seen this posted in the discussion yet... One can purchase an Audrey for $89, brand new in a sealed-by-3Com box, at Tiger Direct. I have two of them, and they're quite fun to play with.:-)
There's an interesting chart link from the main story. Looks like it uses something to attract the anthrax DNA, and when anthrax attaches to it, it bridges two gold electrodes, thus closing a circuit and showing positive. Neat!
The only other IP scheme I know that the Speedstreams have is the 10.x.x.x scheme that was mentioned elsewhere in this discussion. You probably already know this, but Efficient's website has some great documentation on all of their products.
Unfortunately, it doesn't look like they have much on the 5250/5251 series (which appears to only be able to support a VCI/VPI of 0/38 which won't work with a lot of telcos anyway). You may really want to look into the 5851 router - it's powerful, and you wouldn't have to try to "hack" it.
I've worked with 5260's, 5660's, 5851's, 5861's, etc. I've found that most of them, whether they are a bridge or router, can still be telnetted into with the correct settings. All the ones I've mentioned above, when set to factory defaults, can be telnetted to if you set your computer to 192.168.254.1 (/24) and telnet to 192.168.254.254.
The reason this works on the 5260's (even though they are bridges) is because Effecient basically just took the 5660 (the router) and removed some stuff, configured it as a bridge, and re-labled it a bridge.
The usual login / password for Effecient's products are 'login' / 'admin'. If it just asks for a password, it's 'admin'.
Some people have discussed 'reverse ADSL' - simply swapping two modems so that the high capacity direction is from the home to the CO. Unfortunately, in most cases this is not going to work. ADSL relies on all the 'loud' signals being located together (eg downstream sends are all at the CO), and all the weak received ones being located in a different frequency area, and physically separated. If you reverse this, then at the CO the loud 'send' of everyone else's downstream will be right where your reversed system is trying to listen to a very weak will be right where you are trying to receive the attenuated noisy weak high capacity 'upstream' - drowning it out. Conversely, your transmit signal will swamp everyone else. Given spectral compatibility constraints and 'good citizenship', this will limit reverse ADSL to perhaps 1000ft. Of course, up and down are arbitrary - what matters is everyone has to operate in the same direction. It is a little like driving; in the US people drive on the right; in the UK they drive on the left - either is fine, so long as you are consistent!
So it looks like you'd have to convince the telco to configure the entire DSLAM for reverse aDSL - for all the customers connected to it. Most likely not going to happen.
Springstreet.com is great for finding apartments - they include floorplans for a lot of them, and list most of the features. The downside is, since they are supported by the apartment complexes, they only really detail about 1/10th of the complexes in the cities they have listings for.
From the waiver you have to sign to be able to sign in at QuakeCon:
I further agree that during QUAKECON 2001 I shall conduct myself in an appropriate fashion and shall not behave poorly by performing harmful acts, using profanity, obscenity or any otherwise objectionable conduct towards any person or property involved with QUAKECON 2001.
Now what am I going to do every time I get fragged?!;-)
On a more serious note, and this may be redundant by now, Id Software started in Mesquite. Mesquite is a suburb of Dallas, which is where I live. There's a mall close-by, lots of places to eat and shop, and a few hotels. It would probably be worth it to get a rental car, since taxis in Dallas are expensive and hard to find (unless you're at the airport or downtown), and Dallas is a big, sprawling place. If you don't spend all of your time at the convention center, you may want to check out Guide Live for things to do, places to eat, etc.
ObNostalgia: When making Doom 2, Id took up residence in the only tall business building in Mesquite at the time, just off of I-635 and Town East Blvd. I remember once they started making money, you could drive by on the highway and see a couple Ferrari's and a Jaguar or two parked outside.:-)
Is that what does it? I have a Tredex multi-function DVD player that does DVD, VCD, SVCD, MP3, CD-R, CD-RW, Kareoke for chrissake... But it has an annoying feature as well. The brightness and darkness of the picture keeps going up and down. If it weren't for that, this would be a wonderful DVD player! It has about a trillion different outputs (including S-video, woo!), DTS, etc. I'm looking into getting a TV with S-video in to try to get rid of the brightness undulating so much. But if it's the Macrovision.. Any way to fix this?
Looks like the cracker was trying to pose as a white-hat. From the article:
On the Web site that revealed the credit cards, the criminal was direct about his extortion scheme: "Michael Butts says I need to talk to Michael Stankewitz from COO [sic]...I told him that I want to help creditcards.com, he had my price and he knew my deal," the Web page reads. "He knew what kind of information we had from their servers. I would destroy it all after the agreement was made and provide network security. "Now, I didn't receive any payment from creditcards.com and I am going to make them bankrupt."
Gee, how nice. If you are going to do something like that, why put the CC numbers up on a page? Why not send them the vulnerability and the fix, and let them know that someone more malignant (like this guy) could do the same? This guy is just giving white-hats an even worse reputation, for what is already pretty damn shady in the public's mind.
Christmas is coming, and crackers seem to be looking to cause as big a stink as possible for online merchants, etc. I dunno, I guess part of the cracker mentality is to cause as much disruption as possible, and Christmas is definately a time in which this is possible. Rumors have been going around for a little while about a huge DDOS attack brewing against popular online merchants. I think it's good that warnings are going out - this holiday season is already been hell on the Internet. Not only does it have to deal with the usual crackers trying to prove how 1337 they are, but we have the increased traffic (at least in the US) caused by America's botched election, and all the people discussing it via email, usenet, web, etc.
I think it's going to be rough sailing 'til around mid-January.
A method of personal locomotion, usually performed in groups, wherein one puts on a display of one's prowess, dexterity and knowledge of said movements. This procedure is usually set to music (with vocals instructing the participants on the movements in real-time), and often performed in Establishments Where Roller-Skating Commences (patent pending), or small organization gatherings known as Lock-Ins (patent pending). The method of locomotion is detailed as follows:
[1] a) The practitioner places his or her right foot in,
b) The practitioner places his or her right foot out,
c) The practitioner places his or her right foot back in,
d) The practitioner shakes the right foot "all about".
e) The practitioner performs the method of personal locomotion,
f) The practitioner turns him or herself around 360 degrees,
1) Items (a) through (f) are what this patent are all about.
[2] a) The practitioner places his or her left foot in,
b) The practitioner places his or her left foot out,
c) The practitioner places his or her left foot back in,
d) The practitioner shakes the left foot "all about".
e) The practitioner performs the method of personal locomotion,
f) The practitioner turns him or herself around 360 degrees,
1) Items (a) through (f) are what this patent are all about.
[3] a) The practitioner places his or her right hand in,
b) The practitioner places his or her right hand out,
c) The practitioner places his or her right hand back in,
d) The practitioner shakes the right hand "all about".
e) The practitioner performs the method of personal locomotion,
f) The practitioner turns him or herself around 360 degrees,
1) Items (a) through (f) are what this patent are all about.
[4] a) The practitioner places his or her left hand in,
b) The practitioner places his or her left hand out,
c) The practitioner places his or her left hand back in,
d) The practitioner shakes the left hand "all about".
e) The practitioner performs the method of personal locomotion,
f) The practitioner turns him or herself around 360 degrees,
1) Items (a) through (f) are what this patent are all about.
[5] a) The practitioner places his or her right side in,
b) The practitioner places his or her right side out,
c) The practitioner places his or her right side back in,
d) The practitioner shakes the right side "all about".
e) The practitioner performs the method of personal locomotion,
f) The practitioner turns him or herself around 360 degrees,
1) Items (a) through (f) are what this patent are all about.
[6] a) The practitioner places his or her left side in,
b) The practitioner places his or her left side out,
c) The practitioner places his or her left side back in,
d) The practitioner shakes the left side "all about".
e) The practitioner performs the method of personal locomotion,
f) The practitioner turns him or herself around 360 degrees,
1) Items (a) through (f) are what this patent are all about.
[7] a) The practitioner places his or her nose in,
b) The practitioner places his or her nose out,
c) The practitioner places his or her nose back in,
d) The practitioner shakes the nose "all about".
e) The practitioner performs the method of personal locomotion,
f) The practitioner turns him or herself around 360 degrees,
1) Items (a) through (f) are what this patent are all about.
[8] a) The practitioner places his or her tail in,
b) The practitioner places his or her tail out,
c) The practitioner places his or her tail back in,
d) The practitioner shakes the tail "all about".
e) The practitioner performs the method of personal locomotion,
f) The practitioner turns him or herself around 360 degrees,
1) Items (a) through (f) are what this patent are all about.
[9] a) The practitioner places his or her head in,
b) The practitioner places his or her head out,
c) The practitioner places his or her head back in,
d) The practitioner shakes the head "all about".
e) The practitioner performs the method of personal locomotion,
f) The practitioner turns him or herself around 360 degrees,
1) Items (a) through (f) are what this patent are all about.
[10] a) The practitioner places his or her whole self in,
b) The practitioner places his or her whole self out,
c) The practitioner places his or her whole self back in,
d) The practitioner shakes the whole self "all about".
e) The practitioner performs the method of personal locomotion,
f) The practitioner turns him or herself around 360 degrees,
1) Items (a) through (f) are what this patent are all about.
A friend of mine got a quote on having a contractor put CAT5 into the house he was building, and it was expensive. Apparently it was less expensive (but also a good idea) to also install CAT5 for the phone wiring. He was able to afford that.
Imagine what it'd cost to wire the place with dual-rotating fiber rings...;-)
Oh, and don't forget your server closet! Room for racks, UPS, and it's own A/C duct, if not it's own dedicated A/C system.
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I don't know what the pixel bit depth is, but as far as file size.. My D60 pumps out between 9 and 12 meg RAW files, and it's 6 megapixel. I imagine the 1Ds would do around 15 to 18 meg file sizes, maybe larger.
.CRW files are the actual bit for bit data from the CMOS sensor. It's more pixel sensor size, color accuracy, sharpness of the optics, and most importantly, photographer skill. Can't ever forget that. Even a $50,000 camera will not make a poor photographer into a great photographer. :-)
I don't think actual file size has anything to do with it, though, except for real estate. The RAW
I like it. It's nice to come from a consumer digicam, and actually be able to get a lens that is fast enough to where you can shoot in low light without a flash. :-)
Yes, it's 11 megapixel, which is great for very large prints. This also means that photographers using the camera will have that much more space to crop and still come out with a printable photo.
The other advancement that is very important is that it is a full-frame CMOS sensor. 35mm film is 24mm by 35mm. Today's digital cameras use sensors that are smaller than this. The side-effect of this is that you end up with what some call a focal-length multiplier. The Canon D60 digital SLR has a 1.6x focal-length multiplier, meaning that a 100mm lens turns into a 160mm lens. It doesn't really multiply the focal length, it just crops the image to only record the center portion of the lens' field of view.
This is great if you want to really zoom in on something, but if you're looking for wide angle, you have to buy expensive super-wide angle lenses to get the same effect. Now with a full-frame sensor, you actually get the focal length of the lens you buy.
This is speculation, but I imagine the 's' in 1Ds stands for studio. The Canon EOS 1D is a great pro digital SLR - it has super-fast AF, is built like a tank, has seperate color spaces, and can shoot up to 8 frames per second! However, it's 4 megapixel. The 1Ds is 11.1 megapixel, and will probably only be able to shoot about 2 to 3 frames per second. Perfect for the studio - not that great for sports photography.
I'm very interested to see/hear about the other improvements Canon may have made in the 1Ds!
- Eric, a Canon EOS D60 owner
It's been said before, but, put your servers and routers and such in their own room. You don't need to be in there. They're machines that aren't supposed to need that much upkeep. Administrate them via SSH/VNC/whatever. They're also more secure in a dedicated room, and you can install a Halon system if the room isn't usually occupied by people.
.5 of one of the racks).
:-)
In that room, it helps to have a raised floor to #1, route cables under, #2, provide a place to put more ventilation conduits, and #3, keep the racks off the floor in case of flooding. You'll want this room to have it's own Air Conditioning [1] and filtered electrical power. Your utility company can bring in seperate "clean" power to that room, or you can just give the room it's own few breakers in the breaker box and filter the power with a UPS system, depending on your needs and size. As far as UPS systems go, most server rooms I've seen have banks of batteries for this purpose, which run the entire room on nice, clean, uninterruptable power. The company I work for even has a diesel generator on the roof with a 2 day supply of fuel, which is tested every month.
For the actual servers and routers, do the obvious: use racks. If your servers aren't already rackmounted, invest in rackmount PC cases - they're not too terribly expensive these days. You can fit quite a few 4U servers in one rack. My company generally has one KVM cluster for each 1.5 racks (keyboard/monitor/KVM taking up shelves on
It's not hard to build a good server room, and it doesn't necessarily have to be expensive. It just takes some planning.
- Eric
[1] This doesn't just mean keeping the temperature down. Most server room A/C units also closely control humidity, as too much or too little humidity and you have bad, bad problems.
I use the Kyocera QCP-6035, and find that it does everything I want it to. It's basically just a Palm 3 with cell phone capability. Sprint has them for like $150 right now, and I hear they can be had for cheaper.
I wonder what kind of easter eggs the bots might have in them.. I've found one thing that might be considered such:
(21:54:00) xxxx: Who's on first?
(21:54:00) SmarterChild: Who.
(21:54:06) xxxx: Then who's on second?
(21:54:08) SmarterChild: No. Who's on first.
Heh! Too bad this didn't work:
(21:55:14) xxxx: What is your name?
(21:55:15) SmarterChild: My name is SmarterChild.
(21:55:20) xxxx: What is your quest?
(21:55:21) SmarterChild: You know, I'm not really sure what my quest is...
(21:55:28) xxxx: What is your favorite color?
(21:55:29) SmarterChild: Depends on my mood. At the moment: yellow.
All in all, it seems like a pretty advanced bot, actually.
Couldn't one simply also remove K88syslog from /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/ and log all messages to a remote syslog server?
This is a really neat idea, although I imagine still not practical. To make any configuration changes, it'd be a pain.
They've been talking about a Linux version of WWIV (what I used to run as well), but I don't think it's actively being developed. Kinda fell to the wayside. Here is the official webpage. I remember sending in my $50 to get the C source code back in the late eighties/early nineties to Wayne Bell. :-)
- Eric
Hmmm. They may have just been temporarily slashdotted? I can still get to them at this link. If not, just go to Tiger Direct and do a search for 'Audrey'. And Tiger Direct is reputable - just look at the Audrey Hacking website, like, in the forums. You'll read lots of good things about Tiger Direct, at least as far as the Audrey goes.
I haven't seen this posted in the discussion yet... One can purchase an Audrey for $89, brand new in a sealed-by-3Com box, at Tiger Direct. I have two of them, and they're quite fun to play with. :-)
- Eric
There's an interesting chart link from the main story. Looks like it uses something to attract the anthrax DNA, and when anthrax attaches to it, it bridges two gold electrodes, thus closing a circuit and showing positive. Neat!
The only other IP scheme I know that the Speedstreams have is the 10.x.x.x scheme that was mentioned elsewhere in this discussion. You probably already know this, but Efficient's website has some great documentation on all of their products.
Unfortunately, it doesn't look like they have much on the 5250/5251 series (which appears to only be able to support a VCI/VPI of 0/38 which won't work with a lot of telcos anyway). You may really want to look into the 5851 router - it's powerful, and you wouldn't have to try to "hack" it.
- Eric
I've worked with 5260's, 5660's, 5851's, 5861's, etc. I've found that most of them, whether they are a bridge or router, can still be telnetted into with the correct settings. All the ones I've mentioned above, when set to factory defaults, can be telnetted to if you set your computer to 192.168.254.1 (/24) and telnet to 192.168.254.254.
The reason this works on the 5260's (even though they are bridges) is because Effecient basically just took the 5660 (the router) and removed some stuff, configured it as a bridge, and re-labled it a bridge.
The usual login / password for Effecient's products are 'login' / 'admin'. If it just asks for a password, it's 'admin'.
- Eric
Read the article. It's set to start mass-mailing the readme.exe attachment again, 10 days after the machine was infected.
Hopefully most machines that were infected have been patched.
From analog.com:
Some people have discussed 'reverse ADSL' - simply swapping two modems so that the high capacity direction is from the home to the CO. Unfortunately, in most cases this is not going to work. ADSL relies on all the 'loud' signals being located together (eg downstream sends are all at the CO), and all the weak received ones being located in a different frequency area, and physically separated. If you reverse this, then at the CO the loud 'send' of everyone else's downstream will be right where your reversed system is trying to listen to a very weak will be right where you are trying to receive the attenuated noisy weak high capacity 'upstream' - drowning it out. Conversely, your transmit signal will swamp everyone else. Given spectral compatibility constraints and 'good citizenship', this will limit reverse ADSL to perhaps 1000ft. Of course, up and down are arbitrary - what matters is everyone has to operate in the same direction. It is a little like driving; in the US people drive on the right; in the UK they drive on the left - either is fine, so long as you are consistent!
So it looks like you'd have to convince the telco to configure the entire DSLAM for reverse aDSL - for all the customers connected to it. Most likely not going to happen.
- Eric
I don't see anything about laser tag on the vehicle, but I did get this when I was trying to find it:
This page is being modified, Sorry about that -
come back later and we should have the
changes completed. Please Click your
browser's "Back" Button.
Thank You!
Heh. I guess maybe they're trying to add it, or trying to keep from getting slashdotted too badly?
Springstreet.com is great for finding apartments - they include floorplans for a lot of them, and list most of the features. The downside is, since they are supported by the apartment complexes, they only really detail about 1/10th of the complexes in the cities they have listings for.
From the waiver you have to sign to be able to sign in at QuakeCon:
;-)
:-)
I further agree that during QUAKECON 2001 I shall conduct myself in an appropriate fashion and shall not behave poorly by performing harmful acts, using profanity, obscenity or any otherwise objectionable conduct towards any person or property involved with QUAKECON 2001.
Now what am I going to do every time I get fragged?!
On a more serious note, and this may be redundant by now, Id Software started in Mesquite. Mesquite is a suburb of Dallas, which is where I live. There's a mall close-by, lots of places to eat and shop, and a few hotels. It would probably be worth it to get a rental car, since taxis in Dallas are expensive and hard to find (unless you're at the airport or downtown), and Dallas is a big, sprawling place. If you don't spend all of your time at the convention center, you may want to check out Guide Live for things to do, places to eat, etc.
ObNostalgia: When making Doom 2, Id took up residence in the only tall business building in Mesquite at the time, just off of I-635 and Town East Blvd. I remember once they started making money, you could drive by on the highway and see a couple Ferrari's and a Jaguar or two parked outside.
Is that what does it? I have a Tredex multi-function DVD player that does DVD, VCD, SVCD, MP3, CD-R, CD-RW, Kareoke for chrissake... But it has an annoying feature as well. The brightness and darkness of the picture keeps going up and down. If it weren't for that, this would be a wonderful DVD player! It has about a trillion different outputs (including S-video, woo!), DTS, etc. I'm looking into getting a TV with S-video in to try to get rid of the brightness undulating so much. But if it's the Macrovision.. Any way to fix this?
- Eric
Looks like the cracker was trying to pose as a white-hat. From the article:
On the Web site that revealed the credit cards, the criminal was direct about his extortion scheme: "Michael Butts says I need to talk to Michael Stankewitz from COO [sic]...I told him that I want to help creditcards.com, he had my price and he knew my deal," the Web page reads. "He knew what kind of information we had from their servers. I would destroy it all after the agreement was made and provide network security. "Now, I didn't receive any payment from creditcards.com and I am going to make them bankrupt."
Gee, how nice. If you are going to do something like that, why put the CC numbers up on a page? Why not send them the vulnerability and the fix, and let them know that someone more malignant (like this guy) could do the same? This guy is just giving white-hats an even worse reputation, for what is already pretty damn shady in the public's mind.
Christmas is coming, and crackers seem to be looking to cause as big a stink as possible for online merchants, etc. I dunno, I guess part of the cracker mentality is to cause as much disruption as possible, and Christmas is definately a time in which this is possible. Rumors have been going around for a little while about a huge DDOS attack brewing against popular online merchants. I think it's good that warnings are going out - this holiday season is already been hell on the Internet. Not only does it have to deal with the usual crackers trying to prove how 1337 they are, but we have the increased traffic (at least in the US) caused by America's botched election, and all the people discussing it via email, usenet, web, etc.
I think it's going to be rough sailing 'til around mid-January.
- Eric
The Neo25 is USB and uses laptop hard drives.
http://ssiamerica.com/products/neo25/
Now if it only had a car charger for the battery...
A method of personal locomotion, usually performed in groups, wherein one puts on a display of one's prowess, dexterity and knowledge of said movements. This procedure is usually set to music (with vocals instructing the participants on the movements in real-time), and often performed in Establishments Where Roller-Skating Commences (patent pending), or small organization gatherings known as Lock-Ins (patent pending). The method of locomotion is detailed as follows:
[1] a) The practitioner places his or her right foot in,
b) The practitioner places his or her right foot out,
c) The practitioner places his or her right foot back in,
d) The practitioner shakes the right foot "all about".
e) The practitioner performs the method of personal locomotion,
f) The practitioner turns him or herself around 360 degrees,
1) Items (a) through (f) are what this patent are all about.
[2] a) The practitioner places his or her left foot in,
b) The practitioner places his or her left foot out,
c) The practitioner places his or her left foot back in,
d) The practitioner shakes the left foot "all about".
e) The practitioner performs the method of personal locomotion,
f) The practitioner turns him or herself around 360 degrees,
1) Items (a) through (f) are what this patent are all about.
[3] a) The practitioner places his or her right hand in,
b) The practitioner places his or her right hand out,
c) The practitioner places his or her right hand back in,
d) The practitioner shakes the right hand "all about".
e) The practitioner performs the method of personal locomotion,
f) The practitioner turns him or herself around 360 degrees,
1) Items (a) through (f) are what this patent are all about.
[4] a) The practitioner places his or her left hand in,
b) The practitioner places his or her left hand out,
c) The practitioner places his or her left hand back in,
d) The practitioner shakes the left hand "all about".
e) The practitioner performs the method of personal locomotion,
f) The practitioner turns him or herself around 360 degrees,
1) Items (a) through (f) are what this patent are all about.
[5] a) The practitioner places his or her right side in,
b) The practitioner places his or her right side out,
c) The practitioner places his or her right side back in,
d) The practitioner shakes the right side "all about".
e) The practitioner performs the method of personal locomotion,
f) The practitioner turns him or herself around 360 degrees,
1) Items (a) through (f) are what this patent are all about.
[6] a) The practitioner places his or her left side in,
b) The practitioner places his or her left side out,
c) The practitioner places his or her left side back in,
d) The practitioner shakes the left side "all about".
e) The practitioner performs the method of personal locomotion,
f) The practitioner turns him or herself around 360 degrees,
1) Items (a) through (f) are what this patent are all about.
[7] a) The practitioner places his or her nose in,
b) The practitioner places his or her nose out,
c) The practitioner places his or her nose back in,
d) The practitioner shakes the nose "all about".
e) The practitioner performs the method of personal locomotion,
f) The practitioner turns him or herself around 360 degrees,
1) Items (a) through (f) are what this patent are all about.
[8] a) The practitioner places his or her tail in,
b) The practitioner places his or her tail out,
c) The practitioner places his or her tail back in,
d) The practitioner shakes the tail "all about".
e) The practitioner performs the method of personal locomotion,
f) The practitioner turns him or herself around 360 degrees,
1) Items (a) through (f) are what this patent are all about.
[9] a) The practitioner places his or her head in,
b) The practitioner places his or her head out,
c) The practitioner places his or her head back in,
d) The practitioner shakes the head "all about".
e) The practitioner performs the method of personal locomotion,
f) The practitioner turns him or herself around 360 degrees,
1) Items (a) through (f) are what this patent are all about.
[10] a) The practitioner places his or her whole self in,
b) The practitioner places his or her whole self out,
c) The practitioner places his or her whole self back in,
d) The practitioner shakes the whole self "all about".
e) The practitioner performs the method of personal locomotion,
f) The practitioner turns him or herself around 360 degrees,
1) Items (a) through (f) are what this patent are all about.
Sorry to respond to myself, but the point of the above was to look into starting your own.. The whole "build it and they will come" type of thing. :-)
- Eric
A friend of mine got a quote on having a contractor put CAT5 into the house he was building, and it was expensive. Apparently it was less expensive (but also a good idea) to also install CAT5 for the phone wiring. He was able to afford that.
;-)
Imagine what it'd cost to wire the place with dual-rotating fiber rings...
Oh, and don't forget your server closet! Room for racks, UPS, and it's own A/C duct, if not it's own dedicated A/C system.
- Eric