You might want to check out BMW, who has built some 7-series dual-fuel (hydrogen / gasoline) cars on a production line, albeit in very small quantities (I believe a dozen or two). They have two tanks, and can switch between hydrogen and gasoline seamlessly while the car is running / being driven.
They are also using solar power to create the hydrogen - they have an experimental plant in the Mojave desert, here in California.
The cool thing is that this is a functional, buildable product created by a major car manufacturer. As soon as the hydrogent fuel supply infrastructure exists, they could start cranking these out more or less immediately. If a driver gets stuck in an area where no H2 fueling stations exist, it runs just fine on old-fashioned gasoline. For more information, see their website.
I wonder why they are demanding a jury? Are they afraid the judge is going to be bought out?
When suing someone for large $$$, you always want a jury trial. Juries are responsible for those insane settlement figures you see ($20M because somebody looked at you funny or something)- although those are usually adjusted well downwards by the judge or appelate courts.
most small and medium-sized companies don't have the manpower, financial resources (hardware, licensing, etc.), and sometimes even work space to run a proper test lab. I do the best I can as a consultant (I have a proper lab), but I can only go so far simulating each customer's setup - again, financial constraints come into play. The problem is, these companies are proportionally affected by downtime in the same manner (or more so) than larger organizations.
I blame most of this on Microsoft - they have the servers with a horribly undocumented mass of insanely complex internals (registry keys, shared dlls, OLE / COM / DCOM /.Net registered objects) and difficult-to-control boot process that allow their servers and workstations to enter that BSOD-on-boot state that makes you throw up your hands and reinstall (it's difficult in most cases to determine whether you'll spend more time debugging or reinstalling - so you take the 'safe and known' approach and reinstall). As other posters have mentioned, you don't have this problem with Linux or *BSD - the functionality is entirely transparent, and orders of magnitude less complex to boot (ha ha).
So, you are correct in that it's the company's responsibility to make sure things are patched, and running a test lab is an excellent and highly reccommended approach for those with the resources, but unfortunalty most organizations (at least in the US, small-medium sized companies outnumber large companies by several orders of mangnitude) are stuck with several compromises they must balance in this area.
Not that I'd recommend doing it to him, but there was a long period in our history where being this much of a troll got your ass tore up by a few "concerned citizens" for wasting tax payers' money with frivilous cases that were all about greed and nothing about justice.
I don't know - some parts of Texas are still that way...
Here's what I do, YMMV. I have a RAID-1 array that I back up my 'important' stuff to (I'm switching to a 4x300GB RAID-5 soon). Every 3 - 4 years I replace the drives. With the natural increase in storage space per dollar, I am able to fit everything from my old array with tons of space left over for the new stuff.
Of course, like everyone else you'll have to look at the content you create and decide if it's worth the money required to back it up. Establish a cost per gigabyte for each solution, and decide 'OK, it costs me $.50 to back up this group of pictures, or $2.50 to back up this video file - is it worth it?'
Of course we will never see a central database of mailservers. That has been proposed before, but will always be unsuitable for the Internet. Remember, the Internet is meant to be decentralized. And a centralized database is open to abuse by governments, corporations, and whoever runs it (or provides the funding for it).
See: Verisign many additional items are available; finding them is left as an exercise for the reader).
Everyone talks about how Linux runs the internet, but the internet is really run by the Businesses, and the Businesses all use Microsoft products.
Except for those (60M - 70M) of us running Notes / Domino. Ugly (not as bad as it used to be), but far more secure over the years than Outlook / Exchange.
It's my girl's site. We actually get a lot of traffic from Slashdot. Probably mostly one-handed surfing, but it helps the Google rankings (shameless, huh?).
Of course, I have to do the photography for her creations. The rough life...
The best food for what? If you mean for building business for the medical and pharmaceutical industries, I can go along with that. "Yes, I'll have my butter drenched in more butter, on top of my cheese, thank you."
But as food? Far too heavy for my taste (although I do like brie occasionally). I'm generally into the left-coast sushi, grilled everything, and twigs-and-berries diet.
Actually, some variation on this occurred in five or six episodes. I'd remember which ones and post informative links, but I drink about as much booze as Bender and that pretty much rules out that sort of deep thinking.
I've been running SuSe Linux Enterprise Server for x86-64 on production servers for several months now. Backwards compatibility with 32-bit apps has been flawless so far.
Okay, that WOULD be news - I was under the impression it was ALL politicians are influenced by money. Or booze. Or drugs. Or cheap hookers. Or all of the above.
Oh yeah? Well, I'm going to make my own political party! With blackjack! And hookers!
On second thought, forget about the political party and the blackjack!
I like to bring up the good old 'law of the seven P's' - Proper Previous Planning Prevents Piss-Poor Performance. In this case, I would alias my e-mail account to a group and forward that group to both my e-mail address and a throwaway hotmail (or Yahoo or GMail or whatever) account. Just cc or bcc any important stuff back to your main account.
Before I travel, I make a list of the systems I'll need to access when I'm gone and make sure I have an appropriate channel into them. I try to travel to areas that have GRPS to I can have emergency access through my cellphone (and I can use it as an Internet connection to my laptop through Bluetooth). If I don't have that, I make sure to secure a dial-up access account in that country before I leave.
Most Internet cafes will let you hook up your own equipment if you give them an "appropriate gratuity." Actually, when in a developing country (and even most developed countries) an "appropriate gratuity" can get you all kinds of things. I'm a big believer in "appropriate gratuities."
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They are also using solar power to create the hydrogen - they have an experimental plant in the Mojave desert, here in California.
The cool thing is that this is a functional, buildable product created by a major car manufacturer. As soon as the hydrogent fuel supply infrastructure exists, they could start cranking these out more or less immediately. If a driver gets stuck in an area where no H2 fueling stations exist, it runs just fine on old-fashioned gasoline. For more information, see their website.
most small and medium-sized companies don't have the manpower, financial resources (hardware, licensing, etc.), and sometimes even work space to run a proper test lab. I do the best I can as a consultant (I have a proper lab), but I can only go so far simulating each customer's setup - again, financial constraints come into play. The problem is, these companies are proportionally affected by downtime in the same manner (or more so) than larger organizations.
.Net registered objects) and difficult-to-control boot process that allow their servers and workstations to enter that BSOD-on-boot state that makes you throw up your hands and reinstall (it's difficult in most cases to determine whether you'll spend more time debugging or reinstalling - so you take the 'safe and known' approach and reinstall). As other posters have mentioned, you don't have this problem with Linux or *BSD - the functionality is entirely transparent, and orders of magnitude less complex to boot (ha ha).
I blame most of this on Microsoft - they have the servers with a horribly undocumented mass of insanely complex internals (registry keys, shared dlls, OLE / COM / DCOM /
So, you are correct in that it's the company's responsibility to make sure things are patched, and running a test lab is an excellent and highly reccommended approach for those with the resources, but unfortunalty most organizations (at least in the US, small-medium sized companies outnumber large companies by several orders of mangnitude) are stuck with several compromises they must balance in this area.
Thank you for what will surely be the most intelligent post in this thread.
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It's my fiancee's business. Props to me for having a woman that starts a business that lets me take pics of hot chicks! ;)
Here's what I do, YMMV. I have a RAID-1 array that I back up my 'important' stuff to (I'm switching to a 4x300GB RAID-5 soon). Every 3 - 4 years I replace the drives. With the natural increase in storage space per dollar, I am able to fit everything from my old array with tons of space left over for the new stuff.
Of course, like everyone else you'll have to look at the content you create and decide if it's worth the money required to back it up. Establish a cost per gigabyte for each solution, and decide 'OK, it costs me $.50 to back up this group of pictures, or $2.50 to back up this video file - is it worth it?'
Funny, I'm watching the traffic right now and the Slashdot referral links go straight for the thongs and lingerie.
It's my girl's site. We actually get a lot of traffic from Slashdot. Probably mostly one-handed surfing, but it helps the Google rankings (shameless, huh?).
Of course, I have to do the photography for her creations. The rough life...
On the Internet? Really?
I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you!
But as food? Far too heavy for my taste (although I do like brie occasionally). I'm generally into the left-coast sushi, grilled everything, and twigs-and-berries diet.
Actually, some variation on this occurred in five or six episodes. I'd remember which ones and post informative links, but I drink about as much booze as Bender and that pretty much rules out that sort of deep thinking.
I've been running SuSe Linux Enterprise Server for x86-64 on production servers for several months now. Backwards compatibility with 32-bit apps has been flawless so far.
On second thought, forget about the political party and the blackjack!
I like to bring up the good old 'law of the seven P's' - Proper Previous Planning Prevents Piss-Poor Performance. In this case, I would alias my e-mail account to a group and forward that group to both my e-mail address and a throwaway hotmail (or Yahoo or GMail or whatever) account. Just cc or bcc any important stuff back to your main account.
Before I travel, I make a list of the systems I'll need to access when I'm gone and make sure I have an appropriate channel into them. I try to travel to areas that have GRPS to I can have emergency access through my cellphone (and I can use it as an Internet connection to my laptop through Bluetooth). If I don't have that, I make sure to secure a dial-up access account in that country before I leave.
Most Internet cafes will let you hook up your own equipment if you give them an "appropriate gratuity." Actually, when in a developing country (and even most developed countries) an "appropriate gratuity" can get you all kinds of things. I'm a big believer in "appropriate gratuities."
Don't put information that requires trust on an untrusted device. Period. No exceptions. Ever.
This even needs discussion??!??
Sam Adams was good before I tried Stone Levetation.
I'm American, but my Fiancee is from Europe... her website is in my signature :)