Qwest sucks donkey dick in so many ways it is not even funny. I hope nothing mission-critical runs over those lines.
You'll see plenty of circuits going up and down at random and have to deal with Qwest "Engineers" who have difficulty logging a trouble-ticket, much less solve your problem.
Get you lines from Worldcom or UUNET. You'll pay more, but the thing will work.
The police use mounting brackets to protect their laptops against jostling about.
In my city, they use NEC Versa notebooks with the state wireless network to exchange information with HQ. They don't get damaged too much, although I would definately pick up the extended warranty program from the vendor (NOT a computer store)
The trick is to protect that screen. If the laptop doesn't physically fall, everything should be ok, at least for a year or two.
About 3 years ago I toured the security area of an indian casino, they had 2 vcrs for each recording node (some vcrs recorded 4 cameras)
the operator could cut over to the other vcr instantly to rewind the other tape to review something. people at tables frequently request that the camera be rolled back when a dealer or customer knocks over chips or does something clumsy and/or stupid.
i remember the security dude saying that they hold everything for 90 days, then erase everything except for cheating or other incidents that may require legal action.
As odd as it may sound, good 'ol analog VCR's are the best and cheapest way to go for this sort of thing.
Casinos monitor every gaming table using 1/2 speed VHS tapes manned by operators swap tapes on a regular basis.
If there were an affordable (or even a not-so affordable) digital solution that provided what the original questioner wanted, the casinos would be using it.
It is free. I do not know whether or not it is open source.
The chances are if you are asking this on Slashdot you are not qualified to modify the source of a database engine anyway, so use SAP DB or pirate Oracle.
Jack "Neutron" Welch's idea of management was to fire everybody and use up young, arrogant management types who were willing do work 24/7 and chant GE's mantra.
Those who were able to continue were promoted. Those who were not quit, suffered health problems and got laid off.
Did you or the idiots who modded you up read the article?
His potential attackers have devices that can tap a fiber optic cable without breaking it.
A far more sensible approach would be to rig up a jacket around a fiber optic cable that would block the tapping devices. Run some signal through the jacket that will cease if somebody tries to peel it off.
Pressurizing steel pipes requires too many manhours to install and is too impractical.
The beauty of open-source is that anyone can create advanced configuration tools like the one you describe without the technical and moral restrictions of proprietary and closed software!
Start a new project on sourceforge and sign up a few of the legions of open-source developers to create a new configuration tool!
In Slashdotland, SCSI is for wimps and striping buggy ATA-100 disks using buggy ATA drivers and untested software is not only standard practice, but is considered best practice.
Real men run database servers on overclocked dual athlon VIA motherboards boards running the most unstable kernel available with MySQL without a cooling fan. They script in obfuscated perl and use zlib to filter out the crap from their database, which btw does not get backed up.
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They cost about $39 at staples.
can't get easier than that.
The man has no opinion about anything. What a wimp!
How does he decide what's for dinner???
But the fact remains is that this VM holy war should have been resolved in the 2.3 series of kernels.
The number of major problems and architectural changes that are being made to the supposedly 'stable' branch of Linux kernel is really run amok.
I'm sure there's plenty of outrages to come as bad bugs are found in the volume manager and other new elements of 2.4
You get what you pay for.
Qwest sucks donkey dick in so many ways it is not even funny. I hope nothing mission-critical runs over those lines.
You'll see plenty of circuits going up and down at random and have to deal with Qwest "Engineers" who have difficulty logging a trouble-ticket, much less solve your problem.
Get you lines from Worldcom or UUNET. You'll pay more, but the thing will work.
The only problem with Toughbooks is that they are still shipping with Pentium I chips, and still cost like $5000
The police use mounting brackets to protect their laptops against jostling about.
In my city, they use NEC Versa notebooks with the state wireless network to exchange information with HQ. They don't get damaged too much, although I would definately pick up the extended warranty program from the vendor (NOT a computer store)
The trick is to protect that screen. If the laptop doesn't physically fall, everything should be ok, at least for a year or two.
They are in the business of running through the last of the VC cash, then going out of business.
Why would you name Telecom software after a crappy city in New Jersey?
And who is going to use GNU telecom software anyway?
Slashdot regularly posts advertisements as news on the front page.
Usually it's for stupid shit, like deluxe ide ribbon cables or some super cooling fan.
Slashdot != news.
Prolly depends on the casino.
About 3 years ago I toured the security area of an indian casino, they had 2 vcrs for each recording node (some vcrs recorded 4 cameras)
the operator could cut over to the other vcr instantly to rewind the other tape to review something. people at tables frequently request that the camera be rolled back when a dealer or customer knocks over chips or does something clumsy and/or stupid.
i remember the security dude saying that they hold everything for 90 days, then erase everything except for cheating or other incidents that may require legal action.
You are right on the money.
As odd as it may sound, good 'ol analog VCR's are the best and cheapest way to go for this sort of thing.
Casinos monitor every gaming table using 1/2 speed VHS tapes manned by operators swap tapes on a regular basis.
If there were an affordable (or even a not-so affordable) digital solution that provided what the original questioner wanted, the casinos would be using it.
As a user of FreeBSD in a large enterprise environment, I cannot agree with you less.
Not only does FreeBSD power our enterprise servers and network archicecture, but it also runs many of our call center's agents pcs as well!
Please name one open-source application that you have to pay for.
And no, Sourceforge doesn't count.
I'd venture to guess that you have never purchased anything for Sun or IBM.
My 999 Sun Blade 100 came with a ton of printed and CD-ROM documentation.
RS/6000's come with a dozen books.
Tivoli software & DB2 come with bookshelves of documentation.
When you consider that the PA-RISC team has been transferred to that "evil" company Intel.
What is GNU/Linux?
Is that some sort of extention of EMACS written is LISP??
SAPDB would be a good choice.
It is free. I do not know whether or not it is open source.
The chances are if you are asking this on Slashdot you are not qualified to modify the source of a database engine anyway, so use SAP DB or pirate Oracle.
Wow... Slashdot orthodoxy at it's best.
In case you didn't notice, Intel owns 80% of the microprocessor market, and AMD will be bankrupt next year.
That depends on your vision of competence.
Jack "Neutron" Welch's idea of management was to fire everybody and use up young, arrogant management types who were willing do work 24/7 and chant GE's mantra.
Those who were able to continue were promoted. Those who were not quit, suffered health problems and got laid off.
Did you or the idiots who modded you up read the article?
His potential attackers have devices that can tap a fiber optic cable without breaking it.
A far more sensible approach would be to rig up a jacket around a fiber optic cable that would block the tapping devices. Run some signal through the jacket that will cease if somebody tries to peel it off.
Pressurizing steel pipes requires too many manhours to install and is too impractical.
If MySQL is so fast, how do you explain slashdot?
Slashdot is the slowest piece of shit I've ever seen and MySQL powers everything.
Don't they want to add perl stored procedures too? I'm sure that'll speed things up even more!
The beauty of open-source is that anyone can create advanced configuration tools like the one you describe without the technical and moral restrictions of proprietary and closed software!
Start a new project on sourceforge and sign up a few of the legions of open-source developers to create a new configuration tool!
At my office we have a Nortel Meridian system, and it works just fine with it's proprietary system. Why would I want to install BSD on it 24/7??
This is not the real world, it is Slashdot.
In Slashdotland, SCSI is for wimps and striping buggy ATA-100 disks using buggy ATA drivers and untested software is not only standard practice, but is considered best practice.
Real men run database servers on overclocked dual athlon VIA motherboards boards running the most unstable kernel available with MySQL without a cooling fan. They script in obfuscated perl and use zlib to filter out the crap from their database, which btw does not get backed up.
Not only are you using Windows 2000, but you are also using the evil (tm) Pentium 4 chip....
What has Ask Slashdot stooped to now?