We had been waiting for someone else's registration on a domain to lapse (they wanted something like $15k), when it got sniped by a squatter who owned a registrar.
He promptly contacted us, and offered us the domain for about $700. We replied with a counteroffer of $250.
He accepted, we have the domain now.
The hardest part was waiting the 60 days to transfer the domain to another registrar - we didn't want to be lining his pockets indefinitely.
My advice to management was "just wait, we can get it for free in a month". Their reply was "It's cheap at $1000, just buy it."
How much is having that domain worth to you? $250? $1000? ZW$100,000,000,000? Offer 1/3rd of what it's worth to you, see what they counter with.
Don't apply symptomatic solutions. Cure the disease.
Call your school board member and ask why getting students on the right buses isn't a priority.
There ought to be a basic set of standard expectations that the school district claims they will meet. Things like "Your child will not get killed while in our custody (*excepting acts of God).", "We will not employ convicted child molestors on school grounds while children are present." and "We will only release your child into the custody of duly authorized persons."
Figure out what that list is, then make sure they're meeting expectations.
Also, don't complain too much when they'd like some tax dollars to do this.
It isn't designed to hide bittorrent traffic, but it could easily hide inside bittorrent traffic.
This means it's easier to look like you're just stealing movies and MP3's and pissing off the *AA, when you're really trading CP with your fellow preverts.
If you figure that the typical MP3 is 3-4 megs, and a typical jpeg photo is 150-300k, you should be able to discreetly trade 1-2 pics per CD of music. YMMV. IANAL.
Seriously, what's the novelty here? This sort of thing has been available for a long time. Maybe not pre-packaged into a wall plug, but certainly small enough that they could have been. Is it just that this one is pre-made and relatively cheap?
It's prepackaged into a wall plug. It's cheap (most PC/104 stuff I've seen costs 3-4 times more). It doesn't look like a frankenboard with loose wires, and there's little chance that it will - it looks like a stylish white box that sits discreetly on the wall. Add an outline picture of some kind of fruit, and I doubt the casual observer would even question what it might be.
This is cool because it's now easy for anyone (with teh skillz) to do some modest cool software stuff and end up with a very finished looking custom project.
In the universe where there is a secure central storage network which is wholly isolated from workstations and the internet.
I'd say that sneakernet is a perfectly valid technology to isolate The National Archive from potential viruses, unvalidated code (lab/test network), fat fingering, and guys named Larry or Glenn.
I've met guys named Larry and Glenn. No way I'd trust them near my data archive.
Neither TFS nor TFA specified that it was a vintage drive.
TFS and TFA specified it was an "external drive" holding vintage data.
It is completely reasonable to expect that every few years or so, they migrate data to more modern containers (drives). The National Archive could very reasonably have already moved a copy of the data off a NAS and onto a modern external USB drive.
Also, TFA did not specify that the only copy of the data was lost - this further makes me think that someone plugged in a USB drive, copied the data from the Big Drive to the modern portable drive, took that portable drive to their workstation so they could start chunking through the reformatting, and then the portable drive got misplaced/swiped/etc.
Sorry, how are the license terms hidden? A copy of the relevant license is supposed to be included with every distribution of the source, most of the source files probably have a copyright notice and license term link in the opening few lines...
Not everyone wants to learn the details of how things work.
Then they need to pay more.
Technical knowledge is required these days - if you don't have the requisite knowledge yourself, you need to either do without some modern convenience, or hire someone else to set things up for you.
We really need more anecdotal evidence that technical people aren't amazingly smart (absolute), we're just amazingly smart relative to the great hordes of morans out there.
Ok, it's not really fair to pick on people for not knowing something that isn't in their field. I'd hate for a doctor to mock me because I don't actually know where my liver is or what on earth the spleen is for.
Actually, the last few times I visited a physician, they mocked me for not being familiar with internal medicine. (Srsly.) I take this as carte blanche to mock people outside of my profession for not being reasonably familiar with it.
I usually don't mock my users, however, since I'm a professional.
This works great until changes cause a renumber, you start doing load balancing, or you have several names pointing at one IP address and you're doing different things with them (Apache vhosts, anyone?).
While interesting, That doesn't seem relevant to the solution.
Many ISPs have configured their DNS servers (possibly using split-horizon techniques) so that when SOME of their customers do a query, rather than returning the appropriate NXDomain result (See RFC 1035, section 4.1.1 - RCODE 3), they return an address of a webserver which will typically accept all URLs and serve a "useful" search result page full of targetted spamvertising.
This breaks a whole lot of things, like the integrated search functionality in certain web browsers.
Apologies if I've missed your point. (I agree with many other posters - the Right Thing is to use only the internal DNS server (possibly configured as split-horizon) when the VPN link is active.)
Also sped up switching time on old style exchanges, right?
The ten position relays at the CO that had to mechanically advance for each digga and were probably no fun to replace...
If they are hiring you, see if you can get a multi-year contract so that they can't fire you next week. (Doubtful they'll go for this, but worth asking for...you never know.)
... with a guaranteed severance package which matches or slightly exceeds the duration of your non-compete agreement. If you can't take a job that you want for a year, they should have to pay you for that year.
I would not have thought about this point until I saw what some people got for severance packages during a recent restructuring.
The key is to figure out what you want early in life, before you waste a chunk of it collecting the means to achieve it.
Sadly, this is significantly harder than it seems. Many people I know (myself included) have thought they knew what they wanted, started working toward it, and then found a decade later that their priorities have changed
To address OP, rather than wailing and gnashing teeth about how my life didn't turn out like I'd hoped: if you value your autonomy and will derive benefit from the opportunity to turn your microproject into something amazing (benefits like pride), then keep doing what you're doing.
If you want to work 40 hours a week, see your family and derive benefits from things like health insurance and paid vacations, sell out and start singing the megacorporate hymn.
If you're like me, you wouldn't feel right about seeing phrases like "Your Precious Baby: a division of MegaCorporate Ventures, Inc" in the marketplace, and the nice car just wouldn't make up for that pain. A lot of people I work with have no problem with that sort of thing, however, and have much nicer cars.
TLDR: Are you an artist or a businessman? Your answer lies within.
Guess what happens to road maintenance when everyone starts driving electric cars?
The government changes the road maintenance tax to be per mile, instead of per fuel gallon. Annual registration probably gets slightly more complicated (submit current odometer reading with renewal, plus semi-random auditing).
Some things get harder, some things get simpler. Vehicles used primarily in interstate travel get very interesting, suddenly.
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The blade itself is called an ExSO.
Is the frame it lives in called an ExSO Skeleton?
They added a 12V only power supply and a 12V battery, integrating the UPS as well. All the 12V stepdown can happen on the mainboard!
Totally OK if the battery is an optional replacement for the second hard drive.
We had been waiting for someone else's registration on a domain to lapse (they wanted something like $15k), when it got sniped by a squatter who owned a registrar.
He promptly contacted us, and offered us the domain for about $700. We replied with a counteroffer of $250.
He accepted, we have the domain now.
The hardest part was waiting the 60 days to transfer the domain to another registrar - we didn't want to be lining his pockets indefinitely.
My advice to management was "just wait, we can get it for free in a month". Their reply was "It's cheap at $1000, just buy it."
How much is having that domain worth to you? $250? $1000? ZW$100,000,000,000? Offer 1/3rd of what it's worth to you, see what they counter with.
Don't apply symptomatic solutions. Cure the disease.
Call your school board member and ask why getting students on the right buses isn't a priority.
There ought to be a basic set of standard expectations that the school district claims they will meet. Things like "Your child will not get killed while in our custody (*excepting acts of God).", "We will not employ convicted child molestors on school grounds while children are present." and "We will only release your child into the custody of duly authorized persons."
Figure out what that list is, then make sure they're meeting expectations.
Also, don't complain too much when they'd like some tax dollars to do this.
Uh, it was on RockBox before Android was released, wasn't it?
It isn't designed to hide bittorrent traffic, but it could easily hide inside bittorrent traffic.
This means it's easier to look like you're just stealing movies and MP3's and pissing off the *AA, when you're really trading CP with your fellow preverts.
If you figure that the typical MP3 is 3-4 megs, and a typical jpeg photo is 150-300k, you should be able to discreetly trade 1-2 pics per CD of music. YMMV. IANAL.
Seriously, what's the novelty here? This sort of thing has been available for a long time. Maybe not pre-packaged into a wall plug, but certainly small enough that they could have been. Is it just that this one is pre-made and relatively cheap?
It's prepackaged into a wall plug. It's cheap (most PC/104 stuff I've seen costs 3-4 times more). It doesn't look like a frankenboard with loose wires, and there's little chance that it will - it looks like a stylish white box that sits discreetly on the wall. Add an outline picture of some kind of fruit, and I doubt the casual observer would even question what it might be.
This is cool because it's now easy for anyone (with teh skillz) to do some modest cool software stuff and end up with a very finished looking custom project.
Your WAP probably isn't wireless. Plug it into that.
In the universe where there is a secure central storage network which is wholly isolated from workstations and the internet.
I'd say that sneakernet is a perfectly valid technology to isolate The National Archive from potential viruses, unvalidated code (lab/test network), fat fingering, and guys named Larry or Glenn.
I've met guys named Larry and Glenn. No way I'd trust them near my data archive.
Neither TFS nor TFA specified that it was a vintage drive.
TFS and TFA specified it was an "external drive" holding vintage data.
It is completely reasonable to expect that every few years or so, they migrate data to more modern containers (drives). The National Archive could very reasonably have already moved a copy of the data off a NAS and onto a modern external USB drive.
Also, TFA did not specify that the only copy of the data was lost - this further makes me think that someone plugged in a USB drive, copied the data from the Big Drive to the modern portable drive, took that portable drive to their workstation so they could start chunking through the reformatting, and then the portable drive got misplaced/swiped/etc.
Hidden terms and conditions?
Sorry, how are the license terms hidden? A copy of the relevant license is supposed to be included with every distribution of the source, most of the source files probably have a copyright notice and license term link in the opening few lines...
Did I miss something?
Not everyone wants to learn the details of how things work.
Then they need to pay more.
Technical knowledge is required these days - if you don't have the requisite knowledge yourself, you need to either do without some modern convenience, or hire someone else to set things up for you.
Mod parent insightful!
We really need more anecdotal evidence that technical people aren't amazingly smart (absolute), we're just amazingly smart relative to the great hordes of morans out there.
assume nothing
Bah. Cover your bases, assume the worst.
Ok, it's not really fair to pick on people for not knowing something that isn't in their field. I'd hate for a doctor to mock me because I don't actually know where my liver is or what on earth the spleen is for.
Actually, the last few times I visited a physician, they mocked me for not being familiar with internal medicine. (Srsly.) I take this as carte blanche to mock people outside of my profession for not being reasonably familiar with it.
I usually don't mock my users, however, since I'm a professional.
What I'd love is my own DNS Server but I can't find one free for XP anywhere...
I think it's called linux. (Also, see VirtualBox or VMware server).
This works great until changes cause a renumber, you start doing load balancing, or you have several names pointing at one IP address and you're doing different things with them (Apache vhosts, anyone?).
While interesting, That doesn't seem relevant to the solution.
Many ISPs have configured their DNS servers (possibly using split-horizon techniques) so that when SOME of their customers do a query, rather than returning the appropriate NXDomain result (See RFC 1035, section 4.1.1 - RCODE 3), they return an address of a webserver which will typically accept all URLs and serve a "useful" search result page full of targetted spamvertising.
This breaks a whole lot of things, like the integrated search functionality in certain web browsers.
Apologies if I've missed your point. (I agree with many other posters - the Right Thing is to use only the internal DNS server (possibly configured as split-horizon) when the VPN link is active.)
Also sped up switching time on old style exchanges, right? The ten position relays at the CO that had to mechanically advance for each digga and were probably no fun to replace...
... with a guaranteed severance package which matches or slightly exceeds the duration of your non-compete agreement. If you can't take a job that you want for a year, they should have to pay you for that year.
I would not have thought about this point until I saw what some people got for severance packages during a recent restructuring.
The key is to figure out what you want early in life, before you waste a chunk of it collecting the means to achieve it.
Sadly, this is significantly harder than it seems. Many people I know (myself included) have thought they knew what they wanted, started working toward it, and then found a decade later that their priorities have changed
To address OP, rather than wailing and gnashing teeth about how my life didn't turn out like I'd hoped: if you value your autonomy and will derive benefit from the opportunity to turn your microproject into something amazing (benefits like pride), then keep doing what you're doing.
If you want to work 40 hours a week, see your family and derive benefits from things like health insurance and paid vacations, sell out and start singing the megacorporate hymn.
If you're like me, you wouldn't feel right about seeing phrases like "Your Precious Baby: a division of MegaCorporate Ventures, Inc" in the marketplace, and the nice car just wouldn't make up for that pain. A lot of people I work with have no problem with that sort of thing, however, and have much nicer cars.
TLDR: Are you an artist or a businessman? Your answer lies within.
or replace all that horrid grass outside with natural prairie and woods.
Thanks for reminding me - again - that the company likes to paint the lawn green with nasty chemicals.
I only get halal diseases, you insensitive clod!
Screw accuracy and mitigating fears, "Martian Death Flu" is what this world needs.
Guess what happens to road maintenance when everyone starts driving electric cars?
The government changes the road maintenance tax to be per mile, instead of per fuel gallon. Annual registration probably gets slightly more complicated (submit current odometer reading with renewal, plus semi-random auditing).
Some things get harder, some things get simpler. Vehicles used primarily in interstate travel get very interesting, suddenly.
The market for dyed diesel fuel dries up, too.