This idea wouldn't work out to well with current P2P implementations (like BitTorrent). P2P is attractive because when people download a file they are uploading at the same time, creating more available bandwidth for everyone else.
If every time you upload a "chunk" and then delete that "chunk" you are limiting the availability. The whole system becomes a one to one file transfer system, might as well use FTP with an auto-delete command once the download is complete.
To get your free copy (10 ip limit) you will need to create a "myAstaro" account, here is direct link: https://www.astaro.com/user/login
Once logged in you can download the "Astaro Security Gateway" as a bootable ISO, this will install the gateway on your PC of choice (make sure you have two network cards, one for WAN and one for LAN). Please keep in mind this will completely format the PC.
Create a login at www.astaro.com and you get a free copy of their Astaro Gateway software (limited to 10 ip's, will turn any spare PC with dual NIC's into a fully functional enterprise firewall).
PCI-E (Express) not PCI-X. PCI-X is a 64bit slots typically found on servers and is not common in desktop PC's.
IDE or SATA: As some people have mentioned, most motherboards include both and if your stuck with a motherboard that is SATA only you can purchase a IDE to SATA converter for $15. Or find yourself a 250GB SATA2 drive for $80.
DVI-I is compatible with VGA and simply needs a $5 adapter if one was not included with your card. DVI-D is DVI only, knowing the difference will save you money on a new monitor, however you can output any DVI signal to an HDMI capable screen (again, with a $5 DVI to HDMI adapter).
RAM is cheap these days, $60 for 2GB (2x1GB sticks).
PSU, motherboard, video card, case, etc.... if you shop then you can easily have an excellent machine well under the cost of a new playstation.
The difference between the two communities begins when one side doesn't want to "build" a PC and simply wants to play games. Consoles are for people who want instant gratification and zero hassle when dealing with hardware.
Jack and the Ultra-robots After Jack finds several destroyed cities, he tries to stop the eight ultra-bots responsible with the help of the professor who originally created them.
In this episode the professor builds Jack a robotic arm giving Jack the extra strength to defeat the Ultra-Robots (who are made of depleted uranium?). In the end the robotic arm runs out of power leaving Jack with nothing but his skill and his sword...
Samurai Swords, Robots with swords and robotic arms all in the same episode, what more could you want?
The Foresight spacecraft is a concept design for a radio tagging mission to Near Earth Asteroid (NEO) Apophis. The spacecraft is designed to be a low-cost, low-risk, minimal science mission in order to achieve the goal of obtaining accurate tracking information for Apophis. The baseline spacecraft mission includes a launch from Wallops Island, Virginia on an Orbital Sciences Corporation Minotaur IV launch vehicle. Five launch windows have been identified spanning the years 2012 to 2014. The mission requires a chemical propulsive transfer vehicle to perform the outbound burn to Apophis (3,600 m/s) with the Foresight encounter spacecraft performing a portion of the Earth departure, and the Apophis capture burn (total less than 2,400 m/s). The mass of the Foresight spacecraft is 220 kg (propulsive transfer vehicle of 1,387 kg). The Foresight spacecraft is powered by solar arrays augmented by rechargeable batteries; the transfer vehicle is powered by onboard batteries. The Spacecraft has two main instruments, a multi-spectral imager and laser altimeter, which over a span of 300 days reduces the ±3 error ellipse of Apophis' trajectory ("keyhole" or bplace encounter) in 2029 to 6.0 kilometers by 2017. The spacecraft leverages off the shelf technologies where possible, incorporating leaner approaches to spacecraft design. The total cost for this mission is estimated to be $137.2 M ($94.2 M for spacecraft and instrument development and acquisition, $21 M for operations, and $22 M for the launch vehicle). Overall system reliability is estimated to be 90.2%. The Foresight spacecraft is a low cost asteroid spacecraft mission that can be implemented with low risk in order to obtain detailed information on the future orbital trajectory of Apophis.
Many manufacturers out there offer trade in programs.
Benefit is twofold, often you can get a discount if your purchasing new equipment, and the your old junk gets recycled properly.
For example, HP Procurve offers a trade in program where you can trade in old network switches/hubs (does not matter what manufacturer) for discounts/cash back when purchasing new Procurve equipment.
Sony once upon a time had a program where you could get a great discount on a laptop if you traded in a competitors product (didn't matter how old it was).
The trick in this case is to inflate the value of the laptop to cover the potential value of the data on the hard drive. When you make the police report, make note of this value.
Hell, why not insure the laptop for the same value!
There will always be a need for Ethernet and wired connectivity.
I've had this conversation over and over with customers, nothing will beat the reliability of a good ol' wired connection. When connectivity needs to be reliable and fast, go CAT6!
Granted, 802.11N may solve some issue's with wireless in general, but you simply cannot run a medium sized company using wireless (I say medium, because I believe that a small company may get away with it).
An excellent site for consumer right and lots a great info on how to handle these situations http://www.consumerist.com/
I would submit your story to this site as well, chances are the editor's will provide some really good feedback (and additional negative feedback for PC World).
I don't know, as a "manager" this first thing I would do (provided there are no immediate emergencies) is check on my staff to see who has called in sick and see if anyone under me needs assistance.
As a manager your priority should be to make sure your team is running smoothly and has all the resources they need to have a productive day.
I work for a large reseller and we recommend the Astaro firewalls to our clients. Their latest V7 is fantastic, I run their free (for personal use) at home.
Astaro is one of the few firewalls available with a built in hard drive, with this you can setup a proxy services and file/email quarantine (with a user web portal). Additionally, Astaro is almost completely open source running Linux (source code available for all open source packages).
For this number of users, probably looking at the Astaro 220 appliance.
Well, the problem right there is that you bought the brightest "daylight" CFL available. 42W is in the upper range for CFL's. The CFL bulb your looking for is probably an 8-11W bulb with a warmer coloring.
I have both daylight and warm CFL's throughout my house and find the coloring just fine.
From the Slim Devices message board, posted by a Logitech rep
Let me introduce myself. My name is Junien Labrousse, Logitech SVP of the Entertainment and Communication Business Unit. The first thing I'll say is that we are very excited about the opportunity that Slim Devices will bring to Logitech. This is a great extension of our current business. Let me assure you that one of the main reasons for this acquisition is the development capabilities of the Slim Devices team. The technical level of this group is a key asset that we fully intend to leverage. The Slim Devices entity will function independently, keeping the spirit of advance audio technology and strong product innovation.
Logitech will bring its global distribution and marketing capabilities, providing a jump start to a large visibility and adoption of Slim Devices products.
Junien
If Logitech keeps their promise, this could be a very good thing.
Well, figure it like this, we have to work with the data we have.
We know of at least one planet that has significant intelligent life.
Before we discovered these additional solar systems/planets we had a very small subset of data to work with. Now we know there could be billions of planets orbiting any number of suns, etc.... the likelihood of earth being unique and special drastically drops, and the possibility of life sharply increases.
To put an actual number of this would be silly however.
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This idea wouldn't work out to well with current P2P implementations (like BitTorrent). P2P is attractive because when people download a file they are uploading at the same time, creating more available bandwidth for everyone else.
If every time you upload a "chunk" and then delete that "chunk" you are limiting the availability. The whole system becomes a one to one file transfer system, might as well use FTP with an auto-delete command once the download is complete.
Agreed, Astaro is an excellent choice.
To get your free copy (10 ip limit) you will need to create a "myAstaro" account, here is direct link:
https://www.astaro.com/user/login
Once logged in you can download the "Astaro Security Gateway" as a bootable ISO, this will install the gateway on your PC of choice (make sure you have two network cards, one for WAN and one for LAN). Please keep in mind this will completely format the PC.
Create a login at www.astaro.com and you get a free copy of their Astaro Gateway software (limited to 10 ip's, will turn any spare PC with dual NIC's into a fully functional enterprise firewall).
More info and support can be found here
http://www.astaro.org/
Enjoy!
Geist has a page dedicated to "The Canadian DMCA: What You Can Do"
here it is:
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2431/125/
Enjoy!
USB with U3 or something similar may be ideal.
Some apps you can run from a USB stick before using a public terminal:
Avast! AV
Spybot S&D
These will attempt to detect the presence of keyloggers.
And don't forget to check the keyboard port for a physical keylogger sitting inline with the cord.
I hate to be that guys who nitpicks, but...
PCI-E (Express) not PCI-X. PCI-X is a 64bit slots typically found on servers and is not common in desktop PC's.
IDE or SATA: As some people have mentioned, most motherboards include both and if your stuck with a motherboard that is SATA only you can purchase a IDE to SATA converter for $15. Or find yourself a 250GB SATA2 drive for $80.
DVI-I is compatible with VGA and simply needs a $5 adapter if one was not included with your card.
DVI-D is DVI only, knowing the difference will save you money on a new monitor, however you can output any DVI signal to an HDMI capable screen (again, with a $5 DVI to HDMI adapter).
RAM is cheap these days, $60 for 2GB (2x1GB sticks).
PSU, motherboard, video card, case, etc.... if you shop then you can easily have an excellent machine well under the cost of a new playstation.
The difference between the two communities begins when one side doesn't want to "build" a PC and simply wants to play games. Consoles are for people who want instant gratification and zero hassle when dealing with hardware.
This has been done before....
Season 2, Episode 5 of Samurai Jack.
Jack and the Ultra-robots
After Jack finds several destroyed cities, he tries to stop the eight ultra-bots responsible with the help of the professor who originally created them.
In this episode the professor builds Jack a robotic arm giving Jack the extra strength to defeat the Ultra-Robots (who are made of depleted uranium?). In the end the robotic arm runs out of power leaving Jack with nothing but his skill and his sword...
Samurai Swords, Robots with swords and robotic arms all in the same episode, what more could you want?
OK, I'm done for the day...
Executive summary from the the linked PDF:
The Foresight spacecraft is a concept design for a radio tagging mission to Near Earth
Asteroid (NEO) Apophis. The spacecraft is designed to be a low-cost, low-risk, minimal
science mission in order to achieve the goal of obtaining accurate tracking information for
Apophis. The baseline spacecraft mission includes a launch from Wallops Island, Virginia on
an Orbital Sciences Corporation Minotaur IV launch vehicle. Five launch windows have
been identified spanning the years 2012 to 2014. The mission requires a chemical propulsive
transfer vehicle to perform the outbound burn to Apophis (3,600 m/s) with the Foresight
encounter spacecraft performing a portion of the Earth departure, and the Apophis capture
burn (total less than 2,400 m/s). The mass of the Foresight spacecraft is 220 kg (propulsive
transfer vehicle of 1,387 kg). The Foresight spacecraft is powered by solar arrays augmented
by rechargeable batteries; the transfer vehicle is powered by onboard batteries. The
Spacecraft has two main instruments, a multi-spectral imager and laser altimeter, which
over a span of 300 days reduces the ±3 error ellipse of Apophis' trajectory ("keyhole" or bplace
encounter) in 2029 to 6.0 kilometers by 2017. The spacecraft leverages off the shelf
technologies where possible, incorporating leaner approaches to spacecraft design. The total
cost for this mission is estimated to be $137.2 M ($94.2 M for spacecraft and instrument
development and acquisition, $21 M for operations, and $22 M for the launch vehicle).
Overall system reliability is estimated to be 90.2%. The Foresight spacecraft is a low cost
asteroid spacecraft mission that can be implemented with low risk in order to obtain detailed
information on the future orbital trajectory of Apophis.
Many manufacturers out there offer trade in programs.
Benefit is twofold, often you can get a discount if your purchasing new equipment, and the your old junk gets recycled properly.
For example, HP Procurve offers a trade in program where you can trade in old network switches/hubs (does not matter what manufacturer) for discounts/cash back when purchasing new Procurve equipment.
Sony once upon a time had a program where you could get a great discount on a laptop if you traded in a competitors product (didn't matter how old it was).
PCMCIA serial cards are available, and these are what we usually recommend as a solution for users who need one on a laptop.
http://www.socketmobile.com/products/device-connectivity/serial/
Fully functional RS232, DB9 port for a laptop.
Problem solved!
%80 of the population doesn't know or care about Symbian.
%80 of the population knows or cares about Google.
Just the name alone with push Google phone sales past Symbian's.
Gizmodo has an article on this with a nice mock-up of the "MacBook Touch"
Article here:
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/apple/apple-ipad-touch-tablet-mock+up-is-shiny-iphone+y-319299.php
Very sleek, but I can see this being a pain to keep clean!
Removable battery
3G
Better data usage control
No lock in to AT&T
Use the contacts on the SIM card
The SIM card contacts issue is a big one.
The trick in this case is to inflate the value of the laptop to cover the potential value of the data on the hard drive. When you make the police report, make note of this value.
Hell, why not insure the laptop for the same value!
There will always be a need for Ethernet and wired connectivity.
I've had this conversation over and over with customers, nothing will beat the reliability of a good ol' wired connection. When connectivity needs to be reliable and fast, go CAT6!
Granted, 802.11N may solve some issue's with wireless in general, but you simply cannot run a medium sized company using wireless (I say medium, because I believe that a small company may get away with it).
An excellent site for consumer right and lots a great info on how to handle these situations
http://www.consumerist.com/
I would submit your story to this site as well, chances are the editor's will provide some really good feedback (and additional negative feedback for PC World).
I don't know, as a "manager" this first thing I would do (provided there are no immediate emergencies) is check on my staff to see who has called in sick and see if anyone under me needs assistance.
As a manager your priority should be to make sure your team is running smoothly and has all the resources they need to have a productive day.
HP has the XW8400 series workstations, you can configure one with dual quad core chips and 32GB of FB memory.
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here's the link to the specs
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/125
Not sure why this is news?
Version 7 allows you to do more advanced port forwarding/translation, also adds a lot more functionality in general.
I second this.
I work for a large reseller and we recommend the Astaro firewalls to our clients. Their latest V7 is fantastic, I run their free (for personal use) at home.
Astaro is one of the few firewalls available with a built in hard drive, with this you can setup a proxy services and file/email quarantine (with a user web portal). Additionally, Astaro is almost completely open source running Linux (source code available for all open source packages).
For this number of users, probably looking at the Astaro 220 appliance.
Well, the problem right there is that you bought the brightest "daylight" CFL available. 42W is in the upper range for CFL's. The CFL bulb your looking for is probably an 8-11W bulb with a warmer coloring.
I have both daylight and warm CFL's throughout my house and find the coloring just fine.
From the Slim Devices message board, posted by a Logitech rep
Let me introduce myself. My name is Junien Labrousse, Logitech SVP of the Entertainment and Communication Business Unit.
The first thing I'll say is that we are very excited about the opportunity that Slim Devices will bring to Logitech. This is
a great extension of our current business. Let me assure you that one of the main reasons for this acquisition is the development capabilities of the Slim Devices team. The technical level of this group is a key asset that we fully intend to leverage. The Slim Devices entity will function independently, keeping the spirit of advance audio technology and strong product innovation.
Logitech will bring its global distribution and marketing capabilities, providing a jump start to a large visibility and adoption of Slim Devices products.
Junien
If Logitech keeps their promise, this could be a very good thing.
Two Firefox windows open
Three pages loaded (Slashdot, Google/IG, internal work site)
Current memory usage: 110MB
Outlook is using: 78MB
So yeah, just a few issue's with memory usage.
Question is, why would a business buy anything but Vista Business? According to the article.....right, nervermind.
It even states in the summary that Vista business will not have these restrictions, only the home/personal editions.
RTFA, or better yet RTFS.
Well, figure it like this, we have to work with the data we have.
We know of at least one planet that has significant intelligent life.
Before we discovered these additional solar systems/planets we had a very small subset of data to work with. Now we know there could be billions of planets orbiting any number of suns, etc.... the likelihood of earth being unique and special drastically drops, and the possibility of life sharply increases.
To put an actual number of this would be silly however.