Solar/Battery backup, try Applied Power Corporation http://www.appliedpower.com or any other company that deals with remote solar solutions (what do you think those solar sites do when there is no sun?:)). You get 2 benefits, free energy, and free battery backup recharge. We deal with 12v (deep cycle car battery) solar sites. Solar produces a native DC voltage and 12V solar setups aren't uncommon, SOO, just get 300W worth of Solar output at 12v and you're ready to rock and roll. In addition the same companies that package the cells can sell you a regulator to allow battery charging when voltage is sufficient on the solar cells as well as to disconnect the solar cells from the battery system when voltage is too low.
CATS: Crazy Aquatic Test System
It makes sense that they'd fire a rocket into the ocean. They're trying to be the first to reach greater than 120 km depths.
I've worked desktop support in large orginizations that had software usage policies. There are a million and one reasons for restricting user software installs. Starting with company liability. If Joe Bob the slightly clued in use in accounting installs a warez copy of Ms Office 2002, there's a company liability issue there. If some joker in the mailroom decides he'd rather use MS Word 2000 than the standard '98 and he distributes those files, then you have a little conversion problem. If some moron in Executive downloads and plays every stupid.exe he sees on the internet, he'll end up getting a trojan horse thats not detected by a virus scanner and "bye bye" unfiled SEC documents.
Now, on the other hand, if Sysadmin Bob installs Linux on a 'development system', thats a whole other story. Its one thing to break the rules, its another thing for the guy that makes the rules to use his experience to make correct decisions. Rules are there for people who otherwise wouldn't know what the 'correct' thing to do is.
The only mysticism I see is the belief that you the computer guru are god of all things wired. And by extension all things that matter on this little ball of mud.
I mean come on, wouldn't you all wanna be like Neo? The hacker god who has transcended those physical barriers and gets around pesky exception handlers that limit mere mortals to only exist at sub-light speeds.
That one movie has given hope to all 100lb pimpled geeks who were looking for something to prove to them that there might is hope of being able to gain the strength to move more than that precious 1978 Altair.
That is your mysticism. You know your brain has expended to the point that it somehow has a volume greater than your cranium. Of course you should be able to use those extra CPU cycles to do inhuman things.
It does make sense. I've heard if enough times from people working with the U.S. Marshalls. Possession of burglary tools isn't illegal unless attached to another crime. In the same light, certain issues of 2600, Phrack and other materials when found in the investigation of a computer crime are considered 'burglary' tools and get a charge tacked on. And in some cases, multiple charges, one per issue. It not uncommon to see the police working very thoroughly in cataloging evidence and adding up the charges. It just gives the DA more weight for bargaining. Just like the police adding weapons possesion charges to other crimes, even if the weapon wasn't used to commit the crime.
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Solar/Battery backup, try Applied Power Corporation http://www.appliedpower.com or any other company that deals with remote solar solutions (what do you think those solar sites do when there is no sun? :)). You get 2 benefits, free energy, and free battery backup recharge. We deal with 12v (deep cycle car battery) solar sites. Solar produces a native DC voltage and 12V solar setups aren't uncommon, SOO, just get 300W worth of Solar output at 12v and you're ready to rock and roll. In addition the same companies that package the cells can sell you a regulator to allow battery charging when voltage is sufficient on the solar cells as well as to disconnect the solar cells from the battery system when voltage is too low.
CATS: Crazy Aquatic Test System It makes sense that they'd fire a rocket into the ocean. They're trying to be the first to reach greater than 120 km depths.
I've worked desktop support in large orginizations that had software usage policies. There are a million and one reasons for restricting user software installs. Starting with company liability. If Joe Bob the slightly clued in use in accounting installs a warez copy of Ms Office 2002, there's a company liability issue there. If some joker in the mailroom decides he'd rather use MS Word 2000 than the standard '98 and he distributes those files, then you have a little conversion problem. If some moron in Executive downloads and plays every stupid .exe he sees on the internet, he'll end up getting a trojan horse thats not detected by a virus scanner and "bye bye" unfiled SEC documents.
Now, on the other hand, if Sysadmin Bob installs Linux on a 'development system', thats a whole other story. Its one thing to break the rules, its another thing for the guy that makes the rules to use his experience to make correct decisions. Rules are there for people who otherwise wouldn't know what the 'correct' thing to do is.
The only mysticism I see is the belief that you the computer guru are god of all things wired. And by extension all things that matter on this little ball of mud. I mean come on, wouldn't you all wanna be like Neo? The hacker god who has transcended those physical barriers and gets around pesky exception handlers that limit mere mortals to only exist at sub-light speeds. That one movie has given hope to all 100lb pimpled geeks who were looking for something to prove to them that there might is hope of being able to gain the strength to move more than that precious 1978 Altair. That is your mysticism. You know your brain has expended to the point that it somehow has a volume greater than your cranium. Of course you should be able to use those extra CPU cycles to do inhuman things.
It does make sense. I've heard if enough times from people working with the U.S. Marshalls. Possession of burglary tools isn't illegal unless attached to another crime. In the same light, certain issues of 2600, Phrack and other materials when found in the investigation of a computer crime are considered 'burglary' tools and get a charge tacked on. And in some cases, multiple charges, one per issue. It not uncommon to see the police working very thoroughly in cataloging evidence and adding up the charges. It just gives the DA more weight for bargaining. Just like the police adding weapons possesion charges to other crimes, even if the weapon wasn't used to commit the crime.