That was the entirety of the information/gathered/ by the Ada Initiative [executive director]. They were a third party and could have asked for more. Also, I don't see anywhere in their blog post that they indicate that the organization would have had a different opinion given the talk abstract.
> The Ada Initiative has, since its founding, recommended strongly against including off-topic sexual content at technical conferences.
It sounds like a pretty broad and clear policy to me.
A few months back I set up something like this for keeping an eye on our woodlot. I bought from Trailcampro which had all the parts in one place and plenty of advice. I got the [Bushnell Trophy Cam] HD Max Ultimate Package, which included a camera, camouflage steel protective case, rechargeable batteries, charger, and a steel lock cable to lock the camera to the tree. The camera has what this industry calls a 'black infrared' flash for the camera to take pictures at night and reduce the likelihood of being seen. Years ago a game warden put up a trail camera near by to try to catch some bear poachers and just had it destroyed, which is why I opted for the steel case. Of course someone could still tear it apart or down, but they're not going to do so easily and will have to be very intentionally destructive.
While being painted camouflage, it seemed pretty obviously not part of a tree to me so it was hard to find a place to mount it that both had cover and could see the area I was trying to watch. However I've been surprised by how few people who know it is out there have noticed it so far.
The batteries last about two months and I go out monthly to switch SD cards just to keep up on whats going on. I've got the camera set to take three pictures when triggered, which increases the likelihood of seeing something identifying like a license plate.
Fox hates good TV, but so does most of America probably.
Regardless, the couple of hours before Battlestar Galactica are a decent timeslot to bring people to these shows. My BSG group now watches Dollhouse regularly before BSG.
I've been wondering about this too [1]. I wanted to team a pager with my smartphone just for nagios notifications. I get so much information via email and sms these days that I keep my WinMo phone on vibrate. I need some way to differentiate between an sms about a down router and my buddy being at the bar from dodgeball.
Having used a pager in the past for this sort of things, I went out to AT&T to pair up a pager, only to find they didn't do that anymore. Most cellphones can't take the place of a pager for these situations.
I could get a pager from a paging company, but it's more expensive than it used to be to add one to an existing voice account with a cellular provider.
I'm still looking for a tough GSM cellphone that I can treat as a pager, and use a family plan to get cheap service on it.
The insight here was that they were self-cleaning so no need for a janitor.
Actually only parts of them were self-cleaning, they were still visited regularly. From the ebay listing: "Unit has been manually cleaned an average of twice per day by the company"
I was a huge ReadyNAS fan because of the provided 'updates' from the vendor to enable SSH and whatnot. The web interface on our ReadyNAS 1100s tends to be slow, so troubleshooting permissions and such is much easier if you can log in and look at logs and what not.
But I started getting memory leaks, most likely from the encrypted initrd, and got absolutely zero help from Netgear/Infarant. As such, I wouldn't recommend buying their products now.
We've used Dell gear in my last couple of jobs. We had some stupid level of support on our Latitudes at my last job and they'd send people out to replace the hard drives and little rubber feet and everything, which was sort of nice but still annoying to take care of. We use a ton of Dell servers at my new job and at least on the hard drive failures I've seen so far Dell support has been really good at overnighting new drive right out.
However, I've always been frustrated by the support levels in the same way as Microsoft licensing. There are too many options, and these options all have different numbers you have to call. Sometimes when I use the online chat support, which is much nicer than sitting on the phone, they kick me away to phone support if I start asking two many Poweredge questions. For Poweredge and linux support I highly recommend their linux-poweredge mailing list. They've got at least a few of their dedicated linux engineers on there but there's good community support as well. Sometimes searching here directly with Google brings back results that you wouldn't have found using the entire intarweb.
I'm really pushing for more debian and 64bit support as are many others. OMSA is a beast though. Mebbe IPMI will save the day.
Actually, as far as I can see, the only people paying for IP's anymore are the big providers, or the enduser. One company I work for has more than a few/24s, and we don't have to pay for any of them, we just have to prove that we are using them.
I started interning when I was twelve. I've gotten a lot of crap from people over the years because they stereotyped me due to my age.
I homeschooled and interned during elementary school. When I went to public high school, I couldn't stand it, because the ethics and values I had gotten from working conflicted with those of other teenagers at school.
Just because somethings is against the law, doesn't mean it is wrong. I've been working around the laws, trying to keep a low profile for years. It's also interesting to consider that these laws are enforced by a government to which I've been paying income taxes for years, and haven't had any representation until I turned to voting age. There are age discrimination laws to protect older senior citizens, and labor laws to hinder teenagers. All based on an out of date system.
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That was the entirety of the information /gathered/ by the Ada Initiative [executive director]. They were a third party and could have asked for more. Also, I don't see anywhere in their blog post that they indicate that the organization would have had a different opinion given the talk abstract.
> The Ada Initiative has, since its founding, recommended strongly against including off-topic sexual content at technical conferences.
It sounds like a pretty broad and clear policy to me.
A few months back I set up something like this for keeping an eye on our woodlot. I bought from Trailcampro which had all the parts in one place and plenty of advice. I got the [Bushnell Trophy Cam] HD Max Ultimate Package, which included a camera, camouflage steel protective case, rechargeable batteries, charger, and a steel lock cable to lock the camera to the tree. The camera has what this industry calls a 'black infrared' flash for the camera to take pictures at night and reduce the likelihood of being seen. Years ago a game warden put up a trail camera near by to try to catch some bear poachers and just had it destroyed, which is why I opted for the steel case. Of course someone could still tear it apart or down, but they're not going to do so easily and will have to be very intentionally destructive.
While being painted camouflage, it seemed pretty obviously not part of a tree to me so it was hard to find a place to mount it that both had cover and could see the area I was trying to watch. However I've been surprised by how few people who know it is out there have noticed it so far.
The batteries last about two months and I go out monthly to switch SD cards just to keep up on whats going on. I've got the camera set to take three pictures when triggered, which increases the likelihood of seeing something identifying like a license plate.
It works well and I'm pretty happy with it.
Fox hates good TV, but so does most of America probably.
Regardless, the couple of hours before Battlestar Galactica are a decent timeslot to bring people to these shows. My BSG group now watches Dollhouse regularly before BSG.
I've been wondering about this too [1]. I wanted to team a pager with my smartphone just for nagios notifications. I get so much information via email and sms these days that I keep my WinMo phone on vibrate. I need some way to differentiate between an sms about a down router and my buddy being at the bar from dodgeball.
Having used a pager in the past for this sort of things, I went out to AT&T to pair up a pager, only to find they didn't do that anymore. Most cellphones can't take the place of a pager for these situations.
I could get a pager from a paging company, but it's more expensive than it used to be to add one to an existing voice account with a cellular provider.
I'm still looking for a tough GSM cellphone that I can treat as a pager, and use a family plan to get cheap service on it.
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[1] http://blog.loftninjas.org/?p=247
The insight here was that they were self-cleaning so no need for a janitor.
Actually only parts of them were self-cleaning, they were still visited regularly. From the ebay listing: "Unit has been manually cleaned an average of twice per day by the company"
+1 on biking to work.
Although, I gained 30 pounds after I started biking 10mi round trip every day. I'm going to write that off to riding a fixie on Seattle hills.
I was a huge ReadyNAS fan because of the provided 'updates' from the vendor to enable SSH and whatnot. The web interface on our ReadyNAS 1100s tends to be slow, so troubleshooting permissions and such is much easier if you can log in and look at logs and what not.
But I started getting memory leaks, most likely from the encrypted initrd, and got absolutely zero help from Netgear/Infarant. As such, I wouldn't recommend buying their products now.
With sites like Whrrl coming out it's only more evidence that the complaints from people like the founders of dodgeball are more than just complaints.
We've used Dell gear in my last couple of jobs. We had some stupid level of support on our Latitudes at my last job and they'd send people out to replace the hard drives and little rubber feet and everything, which was sort of nice but still annoying to take care of. We use a ton of Dell servers at my new job and at least on the hard drive failures I've seen so far Dell support has been really good at overnighting new drive right out. However, I've always been frustrated by the support levels in the same way as Microsoft licensing. There are too many options, and these options all have different numbers you have to call. Sometimes when I use the online chat support, which is much nicer than sitting on the phone, they kick me away to phone support if I start asking two many Poweredge questions. For Poweredge and linux support I highly recommend their linux-poweredge mailing list. They've got at least a few of their dedicated linux engineers on there but there's good community support as well. Sometimes searching here directly with Google brings back results that you wouldn't have found using the entire intarweb. I'm really pushing for more debian and 64bit support as are many others. OMSA is a beast though. Mebbe IPMI will save the day.
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Actually, as far as I can see, the only people paying for IP's anymore are the big providers, or the enduser. One company I work for has more than a few /24s, and we don't have to pay for any of them, we just have to prove that we are using them.
I started interning when I was twelve. I've gotten a lot of crap from people over the years because they stereotyped me due to my age.
I homeschooled and interned during elementary school. When I went to public high school, I couldn't stand it, because the ethics and values I had gotten from working conflicted with those of other teenagers at school.
Just because somethings is against the law, doesn't mean it is wrong. I've been working around the laws, trying to keep a low profile for years. It's also interesting to consider that these laws are enforced by a government to which I've been paying income taxes for years, and haven't had any representation until I turned to voting age. There are age discrimination laws to protect older senior citizens, and labor laws to hinder teenagers. All based on an out of date system.