That's nothing. He was just telling me about his best girl back in Iowa, and they're gonna get married just as soon as he gets back home. He's also only three days from retirement.
I'd say more, but he's got to change into his red shirt for an away team mission consisting exclusively of him, McCoy, Spock, and Kirk.
Did he say whether or not he was using an ACME brand RAID controller?
However, whats the hatred of IM services? I mean, this sort of thing is a social problem not a technical one. The only reason you would usually try to keep a lid on it is if you supposed employees were wasting their time, and this is a problem for HR or management, not the IT department. If its simply a matter of installing unauthorized software then you have two choices from a technical point of view, authorize it or disallow users installing software using a technical solution. If your platform does not let you have this kind of control then your using the wrong platform for the kind of control you seek.
Your homework assignment for tonight: setup a yahoo messenger account, setup pidgin on a machine that's on 24/7, walk away for 24 hours.
If you can count the number virus wielding chatterbots that have messaged you on one hand, then please see a doctor about the extra twenty digits you've somehow acquired. Internal IM is nice, but even then it can quickly become a productivity drain.
What you want is a firewall not a NAT. A firewall will protect you just the same and allow people to initiate communication as YOU desire.
For the average user, they're interchangeable. Your average NAT box doesn't allow traversal without explicitly forwarding ports anyway.
There are quite a few examples why this is important but here's one. Why can't all students / businesses have a public IP with an exposed port for VoIP? Why do VoIP products have to have complicated NAT traversal software that doesn't always work and at the very least just adds useless overhead.
Why can't everyone have one? Because not everyone NEEDS one. How much of that/8 is Ford every going to really need? How many secretaries desktops need that public IP? How many of my inter-office calls are going to have to traverse the NAT?
It's called a firewall. Set one up and stop spreading FUD.
NAT traversal software that doesn't always work and at the very least just adds useless overhead.
in a world where everything including your fridge is connected to teh interweb 24h a day, 7 days a week, we will quickly run into a situation where no more IPv4 address can be assigned to a new machine
And tell me again why my fridge will be on a public IP, rather than the 192.168.1.xxx address my Best Buy $49.99 Linksys router will give it?
Even better, explain to me why I, as Joe Sixpack will *need* my fridge on a public IP where every flaw and exploit will be passed directly to it, rather than dropped at the NAT box?
Or better still, explain why a small business with 60 users should have every last user on a public IP?
Or why a college or university needs to put every last workstation, printer, AP, and toaster on a public IP address?
NAT exists because NAT works. No, it is not the be all end all for any perceived IPv4 woes, but there is a metric assload of stuff out there with a public IP that either should be, or desperately NEEDS to be on a 10.xxx.xxx.xxx network.
Transponder codes tell ATC what the manufacturer of a particular aircraft is. Our museum's B-17 has had a couple instances where a curious ATC will ask why his radar is showing a Boeing aircraft cruising along at 4000ft and moving at 150kts.
I think you should take a look at how successful the global hawk program has been, and just look into the return we've gotten on drones in general.
The KH-12's run about a billion dollars a piece, and the launches cost $400 million a piece, per wikipedia. The Global Hawks cost $123 million a piece (again, per wikipedia). Which has would be more useful in providing up to the minute information about someplace halfway around the world?
(of course, the flip side to that argument is that you're not going to fly half a dozen Global Hawks over Beijing or Moscow anytime in the near future.)
Yes, drones need to be refueled and maintained. But since you can have a whole squadron of them in place, that offsets a lot of the negatives. Lose one? Launch another. Need to watch an area for a month straight 24/7? Put one on station and relieve it every 24 hours with another drone. Now, try and refuel or maintain a spy sat. Better yet, try getting two live vantage points from a spy sat. Or upgrading a camera. Or added a different sensor package. Drones define two things that the intelligence community loves to hear: Flexibility and cost effectiveness.
It raises some interesting issues with respect to national security, the war on drugs/terror/etc. However, given it's all based on public knowledge and you can't exactly outlaw math, I fail to see what the government could do about it.
pssst. Most drones can loiter between 24-48 hours over a given area, and send realtime data back to wherever it needs to go.
I'm sure there's some cool stuff that can be done with satellites that can't be done with drones, But when it comes to taking pictures of who is where? I'll take a few drones at 50,000ft with good cameras (that can watch an area uninterrupted for days / weeks) over a satellite with an awesome camera that's 400 miles away.
You can't make it any more black. You just can't. You look at this, and I ask you, how much more black can it get? The answer is none. None more black.
Staples offers in-store recycling for tech trash. There's a ten dollar charge for bigger stuff like monitors, printers, and PC's, but smaller stuff like keyboards, mice, and speakers are free. You'd be surprised at what getting rid of just the old keyboards and speakers did for my office. They also take only cell phones, pagers, cell phone batteries, etc. I've dropped off a few phones, sans SIM card of course.
Staples also has an ink and toner recycling program. It's gotten to be more of a pain in the ass lately, but it's still worthwhile. If you bring in an original HP, Dell, or Lexmark ink or toner cartridge, you get a $3.00 credit on you staples rewards card. Once you get at least $10.00 worth of rewards, you get a check in the mail.
You can only drop them off three at a time, but last month I able to turn our collection of used toner into $30+ dollar rewards check that I used on some supplies for non-profit I volunteer for.
It's very easy to make the case for May being "unsung"
-First and foremost, Queen is arguably the most successful and ignored band in the United States. Yes, they own the Rock Anthem chart and "we are the champions" is played to death at every major sporting event (C'mon, can't they try "February stars" by the Foo Fighters at the super bowl? just once? ), but in terms of album sales? Queen is so far down the list it's pathetic. Their worldwide sales were disproportionate to their US sales from 1975-ish on. Once glam rock died out, Queen all but disappeared from US charts. From about 84 on they still ruled the rock charts in Europe, but they never toured the US after 1982. As the "Home of rock and roll", i'd say that says something.
-Solo success. I own Brian May's first post-queen solo album and I'm probably one of the 15 people in the US that does. He's a helluva guitar player (especially considering he and his father *built* his trademark guitar from a discarded fireplace mantle) but if you ask people to name the ten greatest guitar players of all time, I'd bet huge....tracts of land that you probably wouldn't get close to hearing his name. There are plenty of other "name" guitarists out there. He just doesn't have the cult of personality that Clapton, Page, Vaughn or Hendrix have. Heck, He doesn't have the following of Satriani or even Yngwie.
He's one of the greats, but he's definitely not one of the best known. You've really got to know your guitar Gods to throw May's name out there.
Wouldn't that technically be your "sent" folder being crammed full of unsolicited male? I mean, in my case that particular ummmm..."folder" is reserved for "outbound correspondence."
Maybe *you* receive inbound messages via that folder. Not that there's anything wrong with that...I'm not going to judge how another man handles his mail. Well, unless he's willfully running an open relay. That's just immoral.
They may not have concealed carry, but I don't think there are Buddhists lining up around the block to be reincarnated* as a deer living in the Wisconsin dells. They may not have concealed weapons, but they've got plenty of long guns.
*should your particular flavor of Buddhism acknowledge reincarnation in the first place.
Now all we need is some Sand People to shoot at the racers, and we're all set!
So you're saying they need a tribe of people with language of unintelligible guttural noises that are both heavily armed and perpetually dressed in baggy, concealing clothing? Sounds like Wisconsin to me.
Huh? When was the last time you saw a new machine ship with a HD smaller than 100gb? Sure, you can mock new machines for being full of bloated crap software, but not having free space? Hardly.
Ubuntu desktop is a also live CD. You can run it knoppix style, and choose to install it later.
As has been said before, cute conventions do tend to fall apart after a while. On our network (A World War Two Aviation museum) we use classes and names.
Desktops - WW2 Aces. Gabby-Gabreski, Pappy-Boyington. My office machine is Richard-bong, which leads to great conversations about if Bong is ok, where is bong, etc.
Having classes has been more useful than anything else. Plus, it gets people at least a bit interested in how we do things, since folks ask about what the names on their machines mean.
I started listening to "Class Clown" in 3rd or 4th grade. I always liked his insight, even if he did seem to get quit bitter over the past few years. I always liked his take on growing up in Morningside Heights. He always said that saying you were from a place like Morningside Heights would get you beat up, so he liked to say he was from "White Harlem."
His routine on "Shell Shock vs. Post Traumatic Stress-Disorder" rings very true.
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That's nothing. He was just telling me about his best girl back in Iowa, and they're gonna get married just as soon as he gets back home. He's also only three days from retirement.
I'd say more, but he's got to change into his red shirt for an away team mission consisting exclusively of him, McCoy, Spock, and Kirk.
Did he say whether or not he was using an ACME brand RAID controller?
However, whats the hatred of IM services? I mean, this sort of thing is a social problem not a technical one. The only reason you would usually try to keep a lid on it is if you supposed employees were wasting their time, and this is a problem for HR or management, not the IT department. If its simply a matter of installing unauthorized software then you have two choices from a technical point of view, authorize it or disallow users installing software using a technical solution. If your platform does not let you have this kind of control then your using the wrong platform for the kind of control you seek.
Your homework assignment for tonight: setup a yahoo messenger account, setup pidgin on a machine that's on 24/7, walk away for 24 hours.
If you can count the number virus wielding chatterbots that have messaged you on one hand, then please see a doctor about the extra twenty digits you've somehow acquired. Internal IM is nice, but even then it can quickly become a productivity drain.
Was it the council of 13's confidential servers? cause I'd really like to know who off'd Jonas Venture Sr.
What you want is a firewall not a NAT. A firewall will protect you just the same and allow people to initiate communication as YOU desire.
For the average user, they're interchangeable. Your average NAT box doesn't allow traversal without explicitly forwarding ports anyway.
There are quite a few examples why this is important but here's one. Why can't all students / businesses have a public IP with an exposed port for VoIP? Why do VoIP products have to have complicated NAT traversal software that doesn't always work and at the very least just adds useless overhead.
Why can't everyone have one? Because not everyone NEEDS one. How much of that /8 is Ford every going to really need? How many secretaries desktops need that public IP? How many of my inter-office calls are going to have to traverse the NAT?
It's called a firewall. Set one up and stop spreading FUD.
NAT traversal software that doesn't always work and at the very least just adds useless overhead.
FUD Physician heal thyself...
in a world where everything including your fridge is connected to teh interweb 24h a day, 7 days a week, we will quickly run into a situation where no more IPv4 address can be assigned to a new machine
And tell me again why my fridge will be on a public IP, rather than the 192.168.1.xxx address my Best Buy $49.99 Linksys router will give it?
Even better, explain to me why I, as Joe Sixpack will *need* my fridge on a public IP where every flaw and exploit will be passed directly to it, rather than dropped at the NAT box?
Or better still, explain why a small business with 60 users should have every last user on a public IP?
Or why a college or university needs to put every last workstation, printer, AP, and toaster on a public IP address?
NAT exists because NAT works. No, it is not the be all end all for any perceived IPv4 woes, but there is a metric assload of stuff out there with a public IP that either should be, or desperately NEEDS to be on a 10.xxx.xxx.xxx network.
Transponder codes tell ATC what the manufacturer of a particular aircraft is. Our museum's B-17 has had a couple instances where a curious ATC will ask why his radar is showing a Boeing aircraft cruising along at 4000ft and moving at 150kts.
I think you should take a look at how successful the global hawk program has been, and just look into the return we've gotten on drones in general.
The KH-12's run about a billion dollars a piece, and the launches cost $400 million a piece, per wikipedia. The Global Hawks cost $123 million a piece (again, per wikipedia). Which has would be more useful in providing up to the minute information about someplace halfway around the world?
(of course, the flip side to that argument is that you're not going to fly half a dozen Global Hawks over Beijing or Moscow anytime in the near future.)
Yes, drones need to be refueled and maintained. But since you can have a whole squadron of them in place, that offsets a lot of the negatives. Lose one? Launch another. Need to watch an area for a month straight 24/7? Put one on station and relieve it every 24 hours with another drone. Now, try and refuel or maintain a spy sat. Better yet, try getting two live vantage points from a spy sat. Or upgrading a camera. Or added a different sensor package. Drones define two things that the intelligence community loves to hear: Flexibility and cost effectiveness.
It raises some interesting issues with respect to national security, the war on drugs/terror/etc. However, given it's all based on public knowledge and you can't exactly outlaw math, I fail to see what the government could do about it.
pssst. Most drones can loiter between 24-48 hours over a given area, and send realtime data back to wherever it needs to go.
I'm sure there's some cool stuff that can be done with satellites that can't be done with drones, But when it comes to taking pictures of who is where? I'll take a few drones at 50,000ft with good cameras (that can watch an area uninterrupted for days / weeks) over a satellite with an awesome camera that's 400 miles away.
You can't make it any more black. You just can't. You look at this, and I ask you, how much more black can it get? The answer is none. None more black.
I'm waiting on the hot grits version, Portman
http://www.staples.com/sbd/content/about/soul/recycling.html
Staples offers in-store recycling for tech trash. There's a ten dollar charge for bigger stuff like monitors, printers, and PC's, but smaller stuff like keyboards, mice, and speakers are free. You'd be surprised at what getting rid of just the old keyboards and speakers did for my office. They also take only cell phones, pagers, cell phone batteries, etc. I've dropped off a few phones, sans SIM card of course.
Staples also has an ink and toner recycling program. It's gotten to be more of a pain in the ass lately, but it's still worthwhile. If you bring in an original HP, Dell, or Lexmark ink or toner cartridge, you get a $3.00 credit on you staples rewards card. Once you get at least $10.00 worth of rewards, you get a check in the mail.
You can only drop them off three at a time, but last month I able to turn our collection of used toner into $30+ dollar rewards check that I used on some supplies for non-profit I volunteer for.
HTTP 599
Service Permanently Unavailable
The server you are trying to contact has crossed the event horizon of a black hole.
You left out:
"if this problem persists, please contact your Systems Administrator"
FARNSWORTH: Yes it's the apocalypse alright. I always thought I'd have something to do with it.
It's very easy to make the case for May being "unsung"
-First and foremost, Queen is arguably the most successful and ignored band in the United States. Yes, they own the Rock Anthem chart and "we are the champions" is played to death at every major sporting event (C'mon, can't they try "February stars" by the Foo Fighters at the super bowl? just once? ), but in terms of album sales? Queen is so far down the list it's pathetic. Their worldwide sales were disproportionate to their US sales from 1975-ish on. Once glam rock died out, Queen all but disappeared from US charts. From about 84 on they still ruled the rock charts in Europe, but they never toured the US after 1982. As the "Home of rock and roll", i'd say that says something.
-Solo success. I own Brian May's first post-queen solo album and I'm probably one of the 15 people in the US that does. He's a helluva guitar player (especially considering he and his father *built* his trademark guitar from a discarded fireplace mantle) but if you ask people to name the ten greatest guitar players of all time, I'd bet huge....tracts of land that you probably wouldn't get close to hearing his name. There are plenty of other "name" guitarists out there. He just doesn't have the cult of personality that Clapton, Page, Vaughn or Hendrix have. Heck, He doesn't have the following of Satriani or even Yngwie.
He's one of the greats, but he's definitely not one of the best known. You've really got to know your guitar Gods to throw May's name out there.
Art Bell, our guest editor for the day. Art Bell ladies and gentlemen! Let's give him a big round of applause!
Isn't this the eighth or ninth time this year that they've "discovered" the inner workings of this damn thing?
Wouldn't that technically be your "sent" folder being crammed full of unsolicited male? I mean, in my case that particular ummmm..."folder" is reserved for "outbound correspondence."
Maybe *you* receive inbound messages via that folder. Not that there's anything wrong with that...I'm not going to judge how another man handles his mail. Well, unless he's willfully running an open relay. That's just immoral.
They may not have concealed carry, but I don't think there are Buddhists lining up around the block to be reincarnated* as a deer living in the Wisconsin dells. They may not have concealed weapons, but they've got plenty of long guns.
*should your particular flavor of Buddhism acknowledge reincarnation in the first place.
Now all we need is some Sand People to shoot at the racers, and we're all set!
So you're saying they need a tribe of people with language of unintelligible guttural noises that are both heavily armed and perpetually dressed in baggy, concealing clothing? Sounds like Wisconsin to me.
If you go back and look at when Yoda was first introduced as a character he didn't do that cutesy backwards sentence construction.
Your nostalgia is showing...
"Not far Yoda is, not far."
"Help you find him, I will"
That was from empire, right after Luke first meets Yoda. He's always done it, it's just gotten more pronounced as the movies progressed.
Most machines don't have any free space....
Huh? When was the last time you saw a new machine ship with a HD smaller than 100gb? Sure, you can mock new machines for being full of bloated crap software, but not having free space? Hardly.
Ubuntu desktop is a also live CD. You can run it knoppix style, and choose to install it later.
Funny you should mention that. The principal solider in Operation Mincemeat was already dead. And he wasn't a soldier.
Operation Mincemeat Was one of the most successful diversion operations of the entire war.
As has been said before, cute conventions do tend to fall apart after a while. On our network (A World War Two Aviation museum) we use classes and names.
Desktops - WW2 Aces. Gabby-Gabreski, Pappy-Boyington. My office machine is Richard-bong, which leads to great conversations about if Bong is ok, where is bong, etc.
Servers - WW2 Operations. Anvil, Mincemeat, Overlord
Misc devices. Gateways, Access points - WW2 A/C. Mustang, thunderbolt, spitfire.
Having classes has been more useful than anything else. Plus, it gets people at least a bit interested in how we do things, since folks ask about what the names on their machines mean.
"Get 'on' the plane, get 'on' the plane..."
"Fuck you, I'm getting *IN* the plane."
I started listening to "Class Clown" in 3rd or 4th grade. I always liked his insight, even if he did seem to get quit bitter over the past few years. I always liked his take on growing up in Morningside Heights. He always said that saying you were from a place like Morningside Heights would get you beat up, so he liked to say he was from "White Harlem."
His routine on "Shell Shock vs. Post Traumatic Stress-Disorder" rings very true.
Am I the only one who thought Russert was the spitting image of Jimmy James from Newsradio?