I work for the feds in a small regional office. However, I'm the kind of person who likes to have input on all the big IT decisions, so for me, this sucks!
All the decisions are made at a National level with very little chance for the regions to comment or even make suggestions. If your IT folk at the national level are not great, your job gets harder. We have a lot of inhouse developed solutions. However, they rarely work properly when a new version comes out, and there is very little documentation (read: none, except install instructions).
Also, a lot of the time the public sector doesn't have a lot of control over the products it uses. For example, we're preparing to rollout Windows 2000 for our server environment (with Exchange, MSSQL, etc.) without ever making a choice on looking at other OSs. Why? Because, they decided to contract the job out. So, basically lowest bid that meets the requirements wins. They don't bother to look at other options, like taking the money to pay the contractors and instead training up people to implement the solution.
Yes, I'm bitter, and slowly starting to find contract work to get myself out of this job. But what I have to say is still valid. If you like being in control, or at least working close with those who are, make sure you work in the top of the pryamid office. Of course this doesn't just apply to public offices, I'm sure large private sector corps aren't much different.
Self-sustaining does not mean never-ending. What it means is that no more energy is required to continue the reaction, but if your fuel runs out, you're toast. Look at the sun (or any star for that matter). They're self sustaing, but they don't last forever. Eventually they run of fuel and collapse or explode.
I have my original Windows 3.1 and 3.11 disks on floppy as well as MSDos 5.0 through 6.22. Not sure WHY I still have them, but I do. I think there's an old version of PowerBuilder around, as well as the original Doom, and if I looked hard enough, I could probably find some others.
Actually originally a T1 was exactly what I described, 24 ISDN channels. As technology evolved it also became the single 1.544 mb pipe. So, calling the lines that run into a Telco voice switch T1s is correct
I'd oppose that argument. Tolkien's books were badly paced, his storyline brought in new elements with little or no forshadowing, and the climactic scene of entire story took place in book 5/6, and was solved by a villian.
And the fact that the ending is brought about by a villian (even if accidental) is one of the things I loved most about this story. The fact that the hero, in the end, was corrupted. Its not your typical movie where in the end, the hero always makes the right choice and saves the day. Here, we know the hero wouldn't or couldn't have.
6 T1s for 6 servers? Just what the hell are you doing with those servers anyway?
You might want to read my post again, those T1s are not a 1.5Mb line, but 23(+1 control) ISDN lines used for voice not data... hence the switch is a telephony switch, not a network switch.
True, but you need to have knowledgeable people from all areas involved. There is A LOT to consider when building a LAN room. I went through this last year for one of our smaller offices. About 6 servers, a switch (telephony) handling 6 T1s, plus associated gear.
An architect is definitely a necessity, but they don't always know everything you'll need. First off, you have to determine the amount of heat generated in the room, and this is affected by the number of people normally in the room. Take whatever you have know, and double it. You don't want to have to add in another air conditioner later (trust me on this - its a pain, and very expensive).
Fire alarms are another big one. In fact, yesterday we learned about problems with them. When we originally setup the system, the idea was the sprinkler system (some type of foam, not sure what) was only designed to go off if both detectors in the room had two signs of fire (heat and smoke). However, I didn't know they also setup the fire alarm with an emergency kill. That is, should the fire alarm be activated, it will cut power to the room. Okay, we've got UPSs, however, they also wired up the one UPS in the room that is smart enough to receive this type of kill signal. (There's also a panic button that will cut the power). Yesterday, the company showed up to test the system, didn't know/forgot about the kill signal, and while testing the system shutdown about 1/2 the machines in the room. The other 1/2 were on dumber UPSs and the switch is on its own battery backup. So, in the even of a real fire, the most expensive piece of equipment in the room would have been powered when the foam came down!
Other things - racks right against the wall are bad, leave room for someone to squeeze behind them because you'll need to eventually. Lighting is another issue, it should be bright, but you don't want a lot of glare. Where are the cables going to run? In the walls (not a great idea when you want to replace bad jack) or overhead cable trays (which can get in the way of lighting and cooling).
Short answer, you need professionals who not only understand architecture, but also power, alarms (fire & security), cooling, and finally usability!
911 calls in Canada are also free at payphones (I said this earlier, but was modded down as a troll for some reason)
Not only are they free on payphones, it is also required by law, that every cell phone activated, be allowed to dial 911. So, if you've got a cell phone, and haven't paid the bill in ages, but need to call 911, your service provider is required by law to complete the call.
Personally, I'd rather us detect it at least several years in advance so we *might* have a chance of doing something about it. Detecting it the day it impacts doesn't leave a lot of options, except stick your head between you legs and kiss your @ss goodbye!
Assuming Windows 2000, check HKCU\Software\Simon Tatham
Since it is a single file, where do you think it stores the session information? However, Putty is a wondeful program and is my Windows SSH client to home.
The article I read a day or two ago (on CBC's website compared it to the human ear. Our ear works basically the same way as these sensors. When there's a lot of noise, it tends to be ignored, but you can still pick out differences. My guess would be that the first few drops may get the gator's attention, but after that it would become background "noise". However, an animal splashing around would proably make bigger waves, and thus be more noticeable.
Anybody who owns a cat would believe this. Can you not tell when your cat wants something, or when it just wants attention. Now while they may have learned to "meow" in such a way that we can more easily interrprut their desires, I think they have also learned to "listen" to us as well. Every cat I've knows has been able to understand a sharp loud vocalization (ie: "No") and softer quieter tones (ie: "Here kitty, kitty, kitty"). I think there's more to it than that though. I have two cats at home (with very different personalities) but they both seem to understand "outside". If I ask them if they want to go out, they will usually head for the back door.
Kinda scary when you think about it. They're learning to communicate with us better. And not just us. Ever seen a cat sitting in a window watching a (bird|squirrel|mouse)? They will try to vocalize a sound I've only heard from a cat in this situation. Sort of a chattering. Maybe Star Trek's Universal Translator was nothing more than a few cats.
We used to do quite a bit of gaming at a buddy of mine's apartment back in the day. He'd always turn his desk so it faced away from the rest of us (no looking at his monitor). However, it wasn't until after a couple of weeks of always knowing his starting point in Starcraft that he realized I could see a very nice image of his screen in the patio doors behind him. Back in the day we didn't need no high-tech gadgets, just a window in a lit room at night and I could see all I needed to:)
I couldn't agree more. I keep telling my finace to quit buying that antibacterial soap. If doctors hadn't over-perscribed antibiotics for the last 20+ years, we probably wouldn't have stuff out there that can resist them (Flesh eacting Disease/bacteria/virus - whatever it is). The human body is an amazing machine, by making it work more, you actually make it stronger. Consider that the next time you take a pill for a minor discomfort.
Did some searching around, and apparently Luke says "Hey", and the way it comes out sounds a bit like "Carrie". movie-mistakes.com discusses it:
When Luke exits his X-Wing , just after the final battle with the Death Star, Leia rushes to greet him. However, after he's climbed out, she greets him with "Luke!", whereas he greets her with "Carrie!". [This has been denied many times by George Lucas - it would have been very easy to dub over it, especially with the re-releases. He just shouts "Hey!", and it sounds a bit like "Carrie!"]
Though I am going to have to pay attention next time I watch ANH.
Yup, like I said, I have a log full of lame server entries for wwws1.com -> translation, the program was sending her to wwws1.com and my DNS server when doing the resolving was reporting the fact that the DNS for wwws1.com is not setup correctly.
all those lame server on wwws1.com entries in my log files.
My girlfriend's computer got hit by this, and I cleared it out (eventually). Funny, guys who can write these programs to monitor everything you do on the 'net, but can't setup DNS properly.
Of course there's not much that can be done about this. Be default mine does reply to the sender of the message (by returning an error to qmail) but its a simple configuration change, change a 0 to 1, and it no longer replies.
Actually that's a hell of an idea, and wouldn't be that hard to implement on my perl scanner. The thing I wanted was no big patches to apply (I had probelms with the qmailqueue patch). Is there a list of attachments somewhere I should look at (obviously.scr.vbs etc.)? Have to admit I did have a problem once with f-prot. I used to be able to ftp to f-prot.com but they changed it so I had to use ftp-f-prot.com but a quick update of my script file and it started auto-updating again.
After getting infected with sircam (My mcafee wasn't updating or scanning properly for some reason) I decided to say screw it, and start scanning email on my server.
Now, anything that comes in, gets scanned firts. If f-prot can't find anything, then it gets delivered, otherwise it never show up in my inbox. If you want a look at what I did, check out my scanner.
"A lot more credit card numbers are stolen than ever used, but you should assume that right now, in your wallet, there's a credit card number that has been stolen off the Net."
To me this says, that I should assume, in my wallet is a stolen credit card. Well, there isn't, and I don't need to check. I have one credit card, and since I get a statement every month with my name on it, I obviously didn't steal it.
Now if he's just a confusing person and is actually saying that I should assume that one of my credit card numbers has been stolen. Well, as long as everyone out there practices some basic security, they shouldn't worry about that either. The first thing is to make sure you have fraud protection on your credit card (most have a $50 limit now). Second, look at your statement! If you just pay your bill without examining the charges, well, send me your credit card number!
Depends on how the skill calculations are done. On my DoD server, I run a program called FastStats (see http://faststats.sourceforge.net). In any case, your skill is based not solely on your kill ratio, but on the skill of your victimes (and anyone that kills you). So, if you're killing people with no skill, your skill isn't going to change (or change very little). However, if you're being routinely killed by somebody with low skill, your skill is going to drop rapidly while their skill rises quickly.
Back to your scenario, lets say that everybody on your 5:1 server has about the same skill level (skill matters, not K:D ratios). If at the end of a few hours of gaming, everyone is sitting at about 1:1, then chances are, nobody's skill really changed that much.
However, the read advantage comes in when you go onto one of these servers and do really well. Your skill level is going to climb. Whereas you go into a server with people half your skill level, your going to find your skill level not changing or possibly even dropping!
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I work for the feds in a small regional office. However, I'm the kind of person who likes to have input on all the big IT decisions, so for me, this sucks!
All the decisions are made at a National level with very little chance for the regions to comment or even make suggestions. If your IT folk at the national level are not great, your job gets harder. We have a lot of inhouse developed solutions. However, they rarely work properly when a new version comes out, and there is very little documentation (read: none, except install instructions).
Also, a lot of the time the public sector doesn't have a lot of control over the products it uses. For example, we're preparing to rollout Windows 2000 for our server environment (with Exchange, MSSQL, etc.) without ever making a choice on looking at other OSs. Why? Because, they decided to contract the job out. So, basically lowest bid that meets the requirements wins. They don't bother to look at other options, like taking the money to pay the contractors and instead training up people to implement the solution.
Yes, I'm bitter, and slowly starting to find contract work to get myself out of this job. But what I have to say is still valid. If you like being in control, or at least working close with those who are, make sure you work in the top of the pryamid office. Of course this doesn't just apply to public offices, I'm sure large private sector corps aren't much different.
Self-sustaining does not mean never-ending. What it means is that no more energy is required to continue the reaction, but if your fuel runs out, you're toast. Look at the sun (or any star for that matter). They're self sustaing, but they don't last forever. Eventually they run of fuel and collapse or explode.
I have my original Windows 3.1 and 3.11 disks on floppy as well as MSDos 5.0 through 6.22. Not sure WHY I still have them, but I do. I think there's an old version of PowerBuilder around, as well as the original Doom, and if I looked hard enough, I could probably find some others.
Reference: http://www.howstuffworks.com/question372.htm
I'd oppose that argument. Tolkien's books were badly paced, his storyline brought in new elements with little or no forshadowing, and the climactic scene of entire story took place in book 5/6, and was solved by a villian. And the fact that the ending is brought about by a villian (even if accidental) is one of the things I loved most about this story. The fact that the hero, in the end, was corrupted. Its not your typical movie where in the end, the hero always makes the right choice and saves the day. Here, we know the hero wouldn't or couldn't have.
You might want to read my post again, those T1s are not a 1.5Mb line, but 23(+1 control) ISDN lines used for voice not data... hence the switch is a telephony switch, not a network switch.
An architect is definitely a necessity, but they don't always know everything you'll need. First off, you have to determine the amount of heat generated in the room, and this is affected by the number of people normally in the room. Take whatever you have know, and double it. You don't want to have to add in another air conditioner later (trust me on this - its a pain, and very expensive).
Fire alarms are another big one. In fact, yesterday we learned about problems with them. When we originally setup the system, the idea was the sprinkler system (some type of foam, not sure what) was only designed to go off if both detectors in the room had two signs of fire (heat and smoke). However, I didn't know they also setup the fire alarm with an emergency kill. That is, should the fire alarm be activated, it will cut power to the room. Okay, we've got UPSs, however, they also wired up the one UPS in the room that is smart enough to receive this type of kill signal. (There's also a panic button that will cut the power). Yesterday, the company showed up to test the system, didn't know/forgot about the kill signal, and while testing the system shutdown about 1/2 the machines in the room. The other 1/2 were on dumber UPSs and the switch is on its own battery backup. So, in the even of a real fire, the most expensive piece of equipment in the room would have been powered when the foam came down!
Other things - racks right against the wall are bad, leave room for someone to squeeze behind them because you'll need to eventually. Lighting is another issue, it should be bright, but you don't want a lot of glare. Where are the cables going to run? In the walls (not a great idea when you want to replace bad jack) or overhead cable trays (which can get in the way of lighting and cooling).
Short answer, you need professionals who not only understand architecture, but also power, alarms (fire & security), cooling, and finally usability!
Not only are they free on payphones, it is also required by law, that every cell phone activated, be allowed to dial 911. So, if you've got a cell phone, and haven't paid the bill in ages, but need to call 911, your service provider is required by law to complete the call.
Personally, I'd rather us detect it at least several years in advance so we *might* have a chance of doing something about it. Detecting it the day it impacts doesn't leave a lot of options, except stick your head between you legs and kiss your @ss goodbye!
Assuming Windows 2000, check HKCU\Software\Simon Tatham
Since it is a single file, where do you think it stores the session information? However, Putty is a wondeful program and is my Windows SSH client to home.The article I read a day or two ago (on CBC's website compared it to the human ear. Our ear works basically the same way as these sensors. When there's a lot of noise, it tends to be ignored, but you can still pick out differences. My guess would be that the first few drops may get the gator's attention, but after that it would become background "noise". However, an animal splashing around would proably make bigger waves, and thus be more noticeable.
Kinda scary when you think about it. They're learning to communicate with us better. And not just us. Ever seen a cat sitting in a window watching a (bird|squirrel|mouse)? They will try to vocalize a sound I've only heard from a cat in this situation. Sort of a chattering. Maybe Star Trek's Universal Translator was nothing more than a few cats.
We used to do quite a bit of gaming at a buddy of mine's apartment back in the day. He'd always turn his desk so it faced away from the rest of us (no looking at his monitor). However, it wasn't until after a couple of weeks of always knowing his starting point in Starcraft that he realized I could see a very nice image of his screen in the patio doors behind him. Back in the day we didn't need no high-tech gadgets, just a window in a lit room at night and I could see all I needed to :)
I couldn't agree more. I keep telling my finace to quit buying that antibacterial soap. If doctors hadn't over-perscribed antibiotics for the last 20+ years, we probably wouldn't have stuff out there that can resist them (Flesh eacting Disease/bacteria/virus - whatever it is). The human body is an amazing machine, by making it work more, you actually make it stronger. Consider that the next time you take a pill for a minor discomfort.
Did some searching around, and apparently Luke says "Hey", and the way it comes out sounds a bit like "Carrie". movie-mistakes.com discusses it:
When Luke exits his X-Wing , just after the final battle with the Death Star, Leia rushes to greet him. However, after he's climbed out, she greets him with "Luke!", whereas he greets her with "Carrie!". [This has been denied many times by George Lucas - it would have been very easy to dub over it, especially with the re-releases. He just shouts "Hey!", and it sounds a bit like "Carrie!"]
Though I am going to have to pay attention next time I watch ANH.
Yup, like I said, I have a log full of lame server entries for wwws1.com -> translation, the program was sending her to wwws1.com and my DNS server when doing the resolving was reporting the fact that the DNS for wwws1.com is not setup correctly.
Who said anything about www.s1.com?all those lame server on wwws1.com entries in my log files. My girlfriend's computer got hit by this, and I cleared it out (eventually). Funny, guys who can write these programs to monitor everything you do on the 'net, but can't setup DNS properly.
Of course there's not much that can be done about this. Be default mine does reply to the sender of the message (by returning an error to qmail) but its a simple configuration change, change a 0 to 1, and it no longer replies.
Actually that's a hell of an idea, and wouldn't be that hard to implement on my perl scanner. The thing I wanted was no big patches to apply (I had probelms with the qmailqueue patch). Is there a list of attachments somewhere I should look at (obviously .scr .vbs etc.)? Have to admit I did have a problem once with f-prot. I used to be able to ftp to f-prot.com but they changed it so I had to use ftp-f-prot.com but a quick update of my script file and it started auto-updating again.
After getting infected with sircam (My mcafee wasn't updating or scanning properly for some reason) I decided to say screw it, and start scanning email on my server. Now, anything that comes in, gets scanned firts. If f-prot can't find anything, then it gets delivered, otherwise it never show up in my inbox. If you want a look at what I did, check out my scanner.
Probably true, but I'm not familiar with laws in every country that has slashdot readers.
"A lot more credit card numbers are stolen than ever used, but you should assume that right now, in your wallet, there's a credit card number that has been stolen off the Net."
To me this says, that I should assume, in my wallet is a stolen credit card. Well, there isn't, and I don't need to check. I have one credit card, and since I get a statement every month with my name on it, I obviously didn't steal it.
Now if he's just a confusing person and is actually saying that I should assume that one of my credit card numbers has been stolen. Well, as long as everyone out there practices some basic security, they shouldn't worry about that either. The first thing is to make sure you have fraud protection on your credit card (most have a $50 limit now). Second, look at your statement! If you just pay your bill without examining the charges, well, send me your credit card number!
it just a zombie'd process
Back to your scenario, lets say that everybody on your 5:1 server has about the same skill level (skill matters, not K:D ratios). If at the end of a few hours of gaming, everyone is sitting at about 1:1, then chances are, nobody's skill really changed that much.
However, the read advantage comes in when you go onto one of these servers and do really well. Your skill level is going to climb. Whereas you go into a server with people half your skill level, your going to find your skill level not changing or possibly even dropping!