Is there any reason that a big telescope couldn't be attached to the ISS? I would think it would be very convenient then. If it needed minor maintinece there would be someone close by.
Today Senator Pork Barrel said All that money for a few lousy pictures! I don't care how pretty they are, we need to cut back on federal expenditure to fund the war on terror.
So basicly he's saying, who cares about a better understanding of the universe, let shoot some people!
My laptop requires a password to wake from sleep or decrypt the contents of my home directory. Since this is seemingly not a search-warrant situation, am I in any way legally required to type / provide my password? What are they (legally at least) able to do if I refuse?
If you aren't an american citizen they could probably refuse you entry into the country. I've heard of people refusing searches at airports and being told to turn around and go home.
Name 1 person with thousands of years of experience building bridges. It would be hard to find someone with 70.
Maybe you should pick up a book sometime. You'll find that you can learn from lots of other peoples experience with out having to experience it all yourself.
I'm sure our current bridge builders didn't start by throwing logs across streams.
Are they there to support their users (and whatever their users see as necessary to be efficient), or to make IT's life of supporting the users easy
The role of an IT department is to help people get thier jobs done effeciently. If people running linux or macs helps them do thier jobs better, then a case needs to be made for supporting the systems they need. If supporting a new system cost X number of dollars but produces 2X in productivity, it would have to be a foolish IT manager that wouldn't back that choice. Not that there isn't a million foolish IT managers around.
I think the real problem come in when people want systems just because they can. I've seen small companies where there is windows, macs, and a couple of versions of linux on desktops. What you end up with there is developers wasting time supporting thier desktops when they should be producing product. Or atleast reading thier email or Slashdot.
I think you are overlooking why an IT department would "dictate" the technology used. Supporting different operating systems takes time and money. I used to be the SysAdmin for a small company. We had 5 offices 400 users. I dictated the systems and software that were used because I had limited resources with which keep everything up and running. Each office had 1 Mac to run some poorly writen database that our main supplier made us run. If one of these machines went down I would often lose a whole day working on it. Partly because of my lack of experience with Macs and partly because the software was just that bad. If more people were to run Macs, I would have had to had more training or atleast lots more time messing with them to make sure I could have them up and running all the time.
As for macs running windows software. I now do architectural drawings and reviews. I would gladly give up my Windows box for a Mac that could run Autocad. And since Autodesk doesn't seem to be making any progress maybe it could go the otherway.
Sometimes it's at the office, sometimes it's in the car. I spend a fair amount of time company vehicles some times it gets left in one of those. Some times I leave it in my wifes car and she takes it to work. The calling it method only works in the house. It's not as bad as my keys though. I can never find my keys.
I like your ideas, but the could be done better from a client end. You don't need to serve all the trafic from your cell phone when you could just feed it to a web server somewhere with more bandwidth and processing power.
The only usefull application for this would be to have the website tell you it's physical location. I'd love to be able to log in in the morning and have an easy way to find my phone.
Whenever somebody moves from one department to another, they need either a new PC, new HD, or a fresh setup on their old PC after a secure wipe. Every time somebody leaves the organisation, or a new person arrives. Every time a drive dies and the PC needs to get a new one under warranty.
Right now, I am probably doing a minimum of ten secure wipes every month. A new hard drive would cost roughly a hundred bucks. That's 12,000 dollars annually, minimum, just on hard drives, which would be wasted.
You are missing the point. You can wipe a fully function drive that is staying inside your organisation and be fairly sure no one will get to the deleted info. But if the drive is broken, you can't besure the drive has been fully erased. And then you are sending it off to someone outside your organisation who may decided to see what you left on it.
Also, you can always just dd/dev/random onto your disk a few times. Anybody know any good reason why that would be insuffiecient?
Because the drive is broken. Chances are you can't write to it.
Best bet is to keep the drives and destroy them yourselves. If you buy enough stuff you can probably get something worked out with your vendor so you get a deal on warranty replacements.
Churchill would've been gassed if it hadn't been for the US.
Thank god for the americans. You know the rest of the world shouldn't have bothered trying. We could have just waited for the americans to get off there asses and sit and watch hitler murder people for a few years too.
I don't know weather you are going to be out there full time or not, but the laptop has the advantage of recharing while you aren't using it and you can run of the battery for probably 4 hours a day on a decent machine...
Mind you, I don't know what the power draw of it or a small desktop would be so you might be able to easily generate that kind of power...
I'm not even sure what the holy grail would be, to be honest.
My digital camera Holy Grail is simple. Atleast 6 megapixels atleast 4 frames per second, and a full sized sensor...
For those who don't know, the sensors aren't quite the same size as 35mm film so your wide angle shots aren't quite as wide...
And if it could be done for 12oo buck that would be a plus. MG
FYI, this flaw was actually found in December [msnbc.com] and just reported yesterday, roughly two months later
It would be interesting to see the time line on this... Did it take this long for the patch to be created or did it get left on someones desk of periods of time before some one spent an hour making the patch.
If you are doing a complete copy to your firewire harddrive and it's being used as a back up you should be fine... If it's the only place that information exsists then you could get screwed.
Basicly the best back up is a complete copy kept offsite. Media doesn't matter. If it dies it doesn't matter cause you still have the original. You just have to keep one of them working.
If it had a phone and GPS(so I can find it when it falls down the back of the sofa) I'd get one... But something that small and that expensive is just inviting me to lose it somewhere...
I sappose if you were in a city with good wireless internet you could do VoIP.
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Is there any reason that a big telescope couldn't be attached to the ISS? I would think it would be very convenient then. If it needed minor maintinece there would be someone close by.
Is it an orbit thing? Is ISS not far enough out?
MG
Today Senator Pork Barrel said
All that money for a few lousy pictures! I don't care how pretty they are, we need to cut back on federal expenditure to fund the war on terror.
So basicly he's saying, who cares about a better understanding of the universe, let shoot some people!
MG
My laptop requires a password to wake from sleep or decrypt the contents of my home directory. Since this is seemingly not a search-warrant situation, am I in any way legally required to type / provide my password? What are they (legally at least) able to do if I refuse?
If you aren't an american citizen they could probably refuse you entry into the country. I've heard of people refusing searches at airports and being told to turn around and go home.
MG
Even in the future, I intend to only work overtime when necessary--sudden bills coming up, or need-it-yesterday type projects.
In my experience all projects are "need-it-yesterdau" projects.
MG
Name 1 person with thousands of years of experience building bridges. It would be hard to find someone with 70.
Maybe you should pick up a book sometime. You'll find that you can learn from lots of other peoples experience with out having to experience it all yourself.
I'm sure our current bridge builders didn't start by throwing logs across streams.
The difference being that we have thousands of years of experience building bridges, and maybe 70 years of experience sending stuff into space.
MG
Are they there to support their users (and whatever their users see as necessary to be efficient), or to make IT's life of supporting the users easy
The role of an IT department is to help people get thier jobs done effeciently. If people running linux or macs helps them do thier jobs better, then a case needs to be made for supporting the systems they need. If supporting a new system cost X number of dollars but produces 2X in productivity, it would have to be a foolish IT manager that wouldn't back that choice. Not that there isn't a million foolish IT managers around.
I think the real problem come in when people want systems just because they can. I've seen small companies where there is windows, macs, and a couple of versions of linux on desktops. What you end up with there is developers wasting time supporting thier desktops when they should be producing product. Or atleast reading thier email or Slashdot.
MG
I think you are overlooking why an IT department would "dictate" the technology used. Supporting different operating systems takes time and money. I used to be the SysAdmin for a small company. We had 5 offices 400 users. I dictated the systems and software that were used because I had limited resources with which keep everything up and running. Each office had 1 Mac to run some poorly writen database that our main supplier made us run. If one of these machines went down I would often lose a whole day working on it. Partly because of my lack of experience with Macs and partly because the software was just that bad. If more people were to run Macs, I would have had to had more training or atleast lots more time messing with them to make sure I could have them up and running all the time.
As for macs running windows software. I now do architectural drawings and reviews. I would gladly give up my Windows box for a Mac that could run Autocad. And since Autodesk doesn't seem to be making any progress maybe it could go the otherway.
MG
Sometimes it's at the office, sometimes it's in the car. I spend a fair amount of time company vehicles some times it gets left in one of those. Some times I leave it in my wifes car and she takes it to work. The calling it method only works in the house. It's not as bad as my keys though. I can never find my keys.
MG
I like your ideas, but the could be done better from a client end. You don't need to serve all the trafic from your cell phone when you could just feed it to a web server somewhere with more bandwidth and processing power.
MG
The only usefull application for this would be to have the website tell you it's physical location. I'd love to be able to log in in the morning and have an easy way to find my phone.
MG
Whenever somebody moves from one department to another, they need either a new PC, new HD, or a fresh setup on their old PC after a secure wipe. Every time somebody leaves the organisation, or a new person arrives. Every time a drive dies and the PC needs to get a new one under warranty.
/dev/random onto your disk a few times. Anybody know any good reason why that would be insuffiecient?
Right now, I am probably doing a minimum of ten secure wipes every month. A new hard drive would cost roughly a hundred bucks. That's 12,000 dollars annually, minimum, just on hard drives, which would be wasted.
You are missing the point. You can wipe a fully function drive that is staying inside your organisation and be fairly sure no one will get to the deleted info. But if the drive is broken, you can't besure the drive has been fully erased. And then you are sending it off to someone outside your organisation who may decided to see what you left on it.
Also, you can always just dd
Because the drive is broken. Chances are you can't write to it.
Best bet is to keep the drives and destroy them yourselves. If you buy enough stuff you can probably get something worked out with your vendor so you get a deal on warranty replacements.
MG
How much stock can you put in his predictions?
MG
Churchill would've been gassed if it hadn't been for the US.
Thank god for the americans. You know the rest of the world shouldn't have bothered trying. We could have just waited for the americans to get off there asses and sit and watch hitler murder people for a few years too.
MG
Fucking Anonymous Cowards.
If you use teamspeak.org you can play anything you want and talk to each other
mg
My girlfriend got me razor-sharp shurikens that I can use to assassinate my enemies in the dark of night!
Your girlfriend is cool!
MG
I don't know weather you are going to be out there full time or not, but the laptop has the advantage of recharing while you aren't using it and you can run of the battery for probably 4 hours a day on a decent machine...
Mind you, I don't know what the power draw of it or a small desktop would be so you might be able to easily generate that kind of power...
MG
My digital camera Holy Grail is simple. Atleast 6 megapixels atleast 4 frames per second, and a full sized sensor...
For those who don't know, the sensors aren't quite the same size as 35mm film so your wide angle shots aren't quite as wide...
And if it could be done for 12oo buck that would be a plus.
MG
It would be interesting to see the time line on this... Did it take this long for the patch to be created or did it get left on someones desk of periods of time before some one spent an hour making the patch.
MG
So they find out that the person who buys size ten also the personal massager. But they already knew that cause it on your receipt
MG
Basicly the best back up is a complete copy kept offsite. Media doesn't matter. If it dies it doesn't matter cause you still have the original. You just have to keep one of them working.
MG
Basicly they had a decent idea and they went nowhere with it... I just didn't believe that Picard's clone really hated Picard.
Maybe they should get rid of Rick Berman...
MG
I sappose if you were in a city with good wireless internet you could do VoIP.
MG
Yes, my whole out look on the prison system is based on Office Space
MG
what the heck would i list as occupation on my income taxes though...
Spamee?