The 3-strikes law covers P2P traffic only. Adding web traffic reporting isn't going to do anything to help you.
Now if you are being asked to do web traffic reporting then sit down with management and work out what they want, why and who is going to be responsible for reviewing traffic (hint - this should be HR not IT). Doing this should give you enough information to justify some expenditure, even if it is just a new server/VM for Squid.
Go to an alarm company that supplies to trade, and have a look at what they supply. Most of the alarm's I have seen recently can easily be hooked up to computers (most of them even have software packages etc designed for them). Stuffing around making your own alarm is asking for trouble.. and your insurance company will not recognize it either.
Hehe this reminds me.. at my uni we have to pay a fee for any class where we get to use a computer (on top of the tech fee). It's for the use of the floppy drives!
Now the only time I have used the floppy drive is to help a lecturer recover the root password from a linux server (long story..) and to help a lecturer remove ntfs partitions from hard drives used for hands on NT server classes (hehe got over 90% and only turned up for a few classes were I read my own books and helped the lecturer out).
In case you haven't noticed all of the people mentioned in the story are at least 50ish. As people age they generally require less sleep. Sound like a good reason?
Is this new? I have seen this happen a lot, and not just with nokia. The special characters from phillip's phones can crash quite a few phones. Alcatel seem to be one of the worst for crashing. Some phones seem to be fine, but an't delete the message from the sms through to the phone not working till the message is deleted from the sms on another phone.
Yeah I liked Open Mag, until they stopped sending it to people outside of North America. They didn't send any notification (not even a damn email!) that they were to do this so I wasn't very impressed.
That 30% or less is all those wonderful things you happen to run into like legacy accounting software which has a server that will only run on a specific version of a specific os, and there isn't a snowball's chance of getting the data converted and finding a replacement in the one shot without major disruption. There is also a lot of stuff which works on linux, but has a reduced feature set or has bugs (openldap seems to be one of these things). I'm not saying a total conversion can't be achieved, just that you have to weigh up whether it's worth the effort for some things.
Well from my little experience.. don't look to replace windows everywhere. You will need to keep some windows server's running for specialist things, as well as several servers it may not be a cost saving at all because of the extra time/effort required. My current thinking is that linux can replace 70% or so of all NT servers out there at least, and there are considerable savings possible from this.
I don't know that it's really worthwhile changing a large user base over from what they currently use (I know that at my uni the amount of windows specific apps for lecturers and other staff is pretty phenomenal). Also you probably have a lot of lab's which require windows specific software (like those wonderful first year "this is MS Office" papers).
Of course you could talk to Redhat, and then MS and see what MS will do to beat Redhat.. (now where's that asbestos suit?).
This is just what I have learnt from helping at two educational institutes. Hope it helps.
The trinux iso is about 40MB, and I was going to stick it onto a business card cd when I can find some. Some many things I can think of to do with them.
Think thats bad? Around here isdn is over 6 times as much per month including the isp account. Then you pay per minute you are connected and then per MB over 600MB as well on isdn (from the local teleco, not the isp!). Compare that to pots which has no charge for local calls per minute, no charge per MB from the line provider.
Think that's sweet? One of the contributors for PC Authority an Australian magazine has a GWM-900 and two sgi 1600's all on the one machine. Only cost him close to $20k oz.
I agree that you should be able to cooperate with other people without it being cheating. At the moment several of my lecturers will let us discuss problems and look at each others code/assignments as long as we don't copy and your work is unique enough. Others just ignore the fact that people are copying (two individuals got caught copying verbatim in 3 papers last semester and weren't kicked out).
I hate formalised group work.. last group assignment I had to do was in a group of 6, 3 dropped out quickly, 1 stuffed us around before dropping out the day before due date and another guy who was willing to work but not too bright.
Cmowire is right, putting a hub on each desktop is not realistic. Oh and theres another reason: redundancy. If you have 4 cables running to a desk and say only 2 are used you have 2 spare. Now if you have only one cable to the desk and it breaks, the cost in replacement would probably be equal to the difference between sticking in a single cable and four in the first place. "Measure twice, cut once".
Check out the linux documentation project. There are several faqs which have basics on this sort of a thing. The Coffee faq is good amongst a few others. Have fun =)
Wow thats a lot of books on programming, and the theory of. How about 'Upgrading and Repairing PC's' by Scott Mueller? I know from the library at uni (and the main public) that Scott's book will probably be the most dog-eared, and well read book in its section. Most people don't go to the library computer section to get out books on programming, they wanna find out how to fix something, or build something. Most of the books suggested are great for your own library tho. I wish I had more money to buy a few of the ones I don't have.
Hmm might be just the fact that I haven't had any sleep in a while and I have been spending too much time on O'Reilly dot net but have you thought about using a peer to peer server style system? Each client would do some of the server processing and communicate directly the other machines of players say in the same area. I guess you would have to have servers to get people linked up initially (ala Gnutella) but they wouldn't have to do any processing otherwise. Just a thought.. I do have them occasionally =P.
If you want a quiter computer try putting it on the floor instead of on top of a desk. My old school 486 with a super quiet power supply and cpu fan is atop my desk and makes more noise than the dual 400 underneath which has 6 or so fans in it.
Other thoughts are that most cpu fans for newer computers are absolute screamers.. you can by adapters now to replace the 60mm screamer with a 80mm case fan which spins slower. Having all your fans run at the same speed can also help prevent nasty harmonics. Those quiet case fans are meant to help quite a bit.. maybe also try some dust filters (they don't just stop dust!). Hope that helps.
Just a thought but staff should be encouraged to share knowledge amongst other staff, and I see that a scheme like this would encourage people not to help each other out, talk about how to do something etc. Any bonuses for hard work should be made at promotion/pay review time, and kept in confidence. Just my 5c
Hmm this sounds pretty cool but how about this for an idea: most organisers (palm, psion, wince etc al) all run pretty lightweight programs (text editors, small database and organiser functions). Now it might just be me but php apps can do most all of these pretty well, and with a few addons (something like cron, and an alarm addon) could do most everything. PHP is pretty small, uses little processor speed and is pretty damn easy to pick up. The 'net browser can be used as an interface (what organiser doesn't have a browser nowdays? apart from the rex). I dunno but it seems like a good idea to me.
35kph aye? I've done 60kph on to a concrete sidewalk and walked away (with a broken arm =/ mmm adrenalin). That was not planned.. the two week old wheel on my road bike (pedal stylez =) gave way when I was going around a downhill corner. I reckon you would probably break your ankle on one of these weird beasts.
Probably the biggest amount of energy could be saved by using a solar water heating setup. This of course might not be possible (say in apartments/rental property) but saves a huge amount of power. Here in New Zealand where we have pretty cheap electricity solar water heaters pay for themselves off in a year or two in most places. The initial cost can be a bit off putting but your local government/power board might offer incentives. Some of the newer ones here are pretty awesome and need absolutely stuff all maintaining (most use anodes inside them which need replacing every few years, depending on water quality/ plumbing/usage etc). If this is too much get some thermal wrapping for your existing hot water piping and adjust the thermometer. Hope this helps a bit. I studied efficient housing last year, and know people who install this stuff incase you are wondering.
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The 3-strikes law covers P2P traffic only. Adding web traffic reporting isn't going to do anything to help you.
Now if you are being asked to do web traffic reporting then sit down with management and work out what they want, why and who is going to be responsible for reviewing traffic (hint - this should be HR not IT). Doing this should give you enough information to justify some expenditure, even if it is just a new server/VM for Squid.
Go to an alarm company that supplies to trade, and have a look at what they supply. Most of the alarm's I have seen recently can easily be hooked up to computers (most of them even have software packages etc designed for them). Stuffing around making your own alarm is asking for trouble.. and your insurance company will not recognize it either.
Hehe this reminds me.. at my uni we have to pay a fee for any class where we get to use a computer (on top of the tech fee). It's for the use of the floppy drives!
Now the only time I have used the floppy drive is to help a lecturer recover the root password from a linux server (long story..) and to help a lecturer remove ntfs partitions from hard drives used for hands on NT server classes (hehe got over 90% and only turned up for a few classes were I read my own books and helped the lecturer out).
In case you haven't noticed all of the people mentioned in the story are at least 50ish. As people age they generally require less sleep. Sound like a good reason?
Is this new? I have seen this happen a lot, and not just with nokia. The special characters from phillip's phones can crash quite a few phones. Alcatel seem to be one of the worst for crashing. Some phones seem to be fine, but an't delete the message from the sms through to the phone not working till the message is deleted from the sms on another phone.
Yeah I liked Open Mag, until they stopped sending it to people outside of North America. They didn't send any notification (not even a damn email!) that they were to do this so I wasn't very impressed.
That 30% or less is all those wonderful things you happen to run into like legacy accounting software which has a server that will only run on a specific version of a specific os, and there isn't a snowball's chance of getting the data converted and finding a replacement in the one shot without major disruption. There is also a lot of stuff which works on linux, but has a reduced feature set or has bugs (openldap seems to be one of these things). I'm not saying a total conversion can't be achieved, just that you have to weigh up whether it's worth the effort for some things.
Well from my little experience.. don't look to replace windows everywhere. You will need to keep some windows server's running for specialist things, as well as several servers it may not be a cost saving at all because of the extra time/effort required. My current thinking is that linux can replace 70% or so of all NT servers out there at least, and there are considerable savings possible from this.
I don't know that it's really worthwhile changing a large user base over from what they currently use (I know that at my uni the amount of windows specific apps for lecturers and other staff is pretty phenomenal). Also you probably have a lot of lab's which require windows specific software (like those wonderful first year "this is MS Office" papers).
Of course you could talk to Redhat, and then MS and see what MS will do to beat Redhat.. (now where's that asbestos suit?).
This is just what I have learnt from helping at two educational institutes. Hope it helps.
Yep, scars usually have better stories behind them than tattoo's. I have a fair amount of scars, and some pretty cool stories.
The trinux iso is about 40MB, and I was going to stick it onto a business card cd when I can find some. Some many things I can think of to do with them.
Think thats bad? Around here isdn is over 6 times as much per month including the isp account. Then you pay per minute you are connected and then per MB over 600MB as well on isdn (from the local teleco, not the isp!). Compare that to pots which has no charge for local calls per minute, no charge per MB from the line provider.
Think that's sweet? One of the contributors for PC Authority an Australian magazine has a GWM-900 and two sgi 1600's all on the one machine. Only cost him close to $20k oz.
I agree that you should be able to cooperate with other people without it being cheating. At the moment several of my lecturers will let us discuss problems and look at each others code/assignments as long as we don't copy and your work is unique enough. Others just ignore the fact that people are copying (two individuals got caught copying verbatim in 3 papers last semester and weren't kicked out).
I hate formalised group work.. last group assignment I had to do was in a group of 6, 3 dropped out quickly, 1 stuffed us around before dropping out the day before due date and another guy who was willing to work but not too bright.
Cmowire is right, putting a hub on each desktop is not realistic. Oh and theres another reason: redundancy. If you have 4 cables running to a desk and say only 2 are used you have 2 spare. Now if you have only one cable to the desk and it breaks, the cost in replacement would probably be equal to the difference between sticking in a single cable and four in the first place. "Measure twice, cut once".
Check out the linux documentation project. There are several faqs which have basics on this sort of a thing. The Coffee faq is good amongst a few others. Have fun =)
Wow thats a lot of books on programming, and the theory of. How about 'Upgrading and Repairing PC's' by Scott Mueller? I know from the library at uni (and the main public) that Scott's book will probably be the most dog-eared, and well read book in its section. Most people don't go to the library computer section to get out books on programming, they wanna find out how to fix something, or build something. Most of the books suggested are great for your own library tho. I wish I had more money to buy a few of the ones I don't have.
Hmm might be just the fact that I haven't had any sleep in a while and I have been spending too much time on O'Reilly dot net but have you thought about using a peer to peer server style system? Each client would do some of the server processing and communicate directly the other machines of players say in the same area. I guess you would have to have servers to get people linked up initially (ala Gnutella) but they wouldn't have to do any processing otherwise. Just a thought.. I do have them occasionally =P.
If you want a quiter computer try putting it on the floor instead of on top of a desk. My old school 486 with a super quiet power supply and cpu fan is atop my desk and makes more noise than the dual 400 underneath which has 6 or so fans in it. Other thoughts are that most cpu fans for newer computers are absolute screamers.. you can by adapters now to replace the 60mm screamer with a 80mm case fan which spins slower. Having all your fans run at the same speed can also help prevent nasty harmonics. Those quiet case fans are meant to help quite a bit.. maybe also try some dust filters (they don't just stop dust!). Hope that helps.
Just a thought but staff should be encouraged to share knowledge amongst other staff, and I see that a scheme like this would encourage people not to help each other out, talk about how to do something etc. Any bonuses for hard work should be made at promotion/pay review time, and kept in confidence. Just my 5c
Hmm this sounds pretty cool but how about this for an idea: most organisers (palm, psion, wince etc al) all run pretty lightweight programs (text editors, small database and organiser functions). Now it might just be me but php apps can do most all of these pretty well, and with a few addons (something like cron, and an alarm addon) could do most everything. PHP is pretty small, uses little processor speed and is pretty damn easy to pick up. The 'net browser can be used as an interface (what organiser doesn't have a browser nowdays? apart from the rex). I dunno but it seems like a good idea to me.
35kph aye? I've done 60kph on to a concrete sidewalk and walked away (with a broken arm =/ mmm adrenalin). That was not planned.. the two week old wheel on my road bike (pedal stylez =) gave way when I was going around a downhill corner. I reckon you would probably break your ankle on one of these weird beasts.
Probably the biggest amount of energy could be saved by using a solar water heating setup. This of course might not be possible (say in apartments/rental property) but saves a huge amount of power. Here in New Zealand where we have pretty cheap electricity solar water heaters pay for themselves off in a year or two in most places. The initial cost can be a bit off putting but your local government/power board might offer incentives. Some of the newer ones here are pretty awesome and need absolutely stuff all maintaining (most use anodes inside them which need replacing every few years, depending on water quality/ plumbing/usage etc). If this is too much get some thermal wrapping for your existing hot water piping and adjust the thermometer. Hope this helps a bit. I studied efficient housing last year, and know people who install this stuff incase you are wondering.