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  1. Re:HSRP on Ask Slashdot: Best Connect Scheme For a 2-ISP Household? · · Score: 1

    Ah yes, right. Whoops. Been a few years since I've implemented either. Good call.

  2. HSRP on Ask Slashdot: Best Connect Scheme For a 2-ISP Household? · · Score: 1

    It seems like what you are looking for is HSRP. You have routing set up to where if the primary service goes down, the route dies and fails over to a secondary connection. I used to set this up all the time at the NSP I worked for and it was very simple. VRRP is even easier but it is Cisco proprietary and probably wouldn't fit your needs.

  3. And just as important. on Happy Pi Day · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'd also like to wish everybody (and also remind them) a happy steak and BJ day. It's exactly one month after V-day which we all know is for the women. This holiday evens out the universe.

  4. I'm not as think as you drunk I am. on BlindType — the Amazing Keyboard of the Future · · Score: 1

    The only problem that I see here is that my ex-girlfriend is going to be able to understand my drunken texts I send her now.

  5. Hurry up already! on Study Finds Fast-Food Logos Make You Impatient · · Score: 5, Funny

    NEXT STORY!!!

  6. Future perfect. on What Will the Browser Look Like In Five Years? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Three things I see happening now are 1) Displays getting bigger and bigger. 2) 3-D everywhere 3) Application integration with normal TV's. I think the next big thing in browsing will be developed for the TV user, like a widget for a web enabled Sony TV or something. I could see semething in the more distant future integrating the 3-d effect with touch/motion detection.

  7. Good news! on MIT Researchers Harness Viruses To Split Water · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Water is now a finite resource! Hopefully they can make a virus that puts the water back together again... O.o

  8. Online cloud storage. on Long-Term Storage of Moderately Large Datasets? · · Score: 1

    Barracuda networks offers a backup service that scales very well with large databases. They also use a deduplication technology that examines each file part by part. If two parts are the same then only one is kept and the other has a marker. In most cases the deduplication ratio is at least 5x (meaning 1tb turns into 200gb) and sometimes it can go as high as 50x deduplication (this is mostly the case with images). After dedup, the data is encrypted and compressed (compression far out weighs the encryption in terms of size) and THEN it's sent off to the cloud.