SEPTEMBER 03, 2003 ( CIO ) - The evening of Sunday, May 4, 2003, at Aeneas Internet and Telephone began as any previous Sunday evening had. The Jackson, Tenn.-based company that serves about 10,000 Internet and 2,500 telephone customers was closed for the weekend, awaiting the return of its 17 employees the next morning. Just before midnight, however, all hell broke loose. An F-4 category twister touched down just outside of town, then tore through Jackson's downtown area, leveling houses, historical sites and municipal buildings alike. The tornado ripped straight through Aeneas's one-story building, leaving only a pile of rubble. Meanwhile, Aeneas CIO and Operations Manager Josh Hart, who'd heard about multiple tornadoes in the area that day, was home, 52 miles away in Martin, Tenn., huddling in his bathroom with his family. As soon as he was able, he flipped on the TV for news footage of the devastation. What he saw looked like "a war zone," bricks and concrete everywhere and piles upon piles of rubble.
At 2 a.m., with those images in the background, Hart's cell phone rang--it was Aeneas Network Administrator Jason Warren calling from what he likened to Ground Zero to report that everything in Jackson was lost. Another call came in from CEO Jonathan Harlan.
"I'm listening to [Warren] tell me what it's like, and he says, 'It doesn't even look like there was an office here,'" remembers Hart, 25. "The tornado destroyed our computers, our desks, everything. I couldn't believe what he was telling me."
Aeneas lost nearly $1 million in hardware and software that night, and an estimated 72 hours of downtime. But just as Aeneas in Virgil's Aeneid endured the worst the gods had to offer, so too did this Aeneas. This one, however, was wise enough to have created a contingency plan--one that minimized the damage and kept the company afloat during its darkest hour.
The company is not alone. After a nationwide scramble to prepare for high-impact, low-probability events similar to the attacks of Sept. 11, CIOs have since realized that their organizations are far more likely to succumb to another type of event--one that has a high probability of occurring and, curiously enough, is probably simpler to predict: the weather. For example, in June, while the Atlantic seaboard was bracing for the start of hurricane season, Arizona was busy battling forest fires. And in Harris County, Texas, in 2001, a tropical storm and resulting flood taught one IT executive the importance of flexibility.
Both Aeneas's Hart and Steven W. Jennings, Harris County's executive director of central technology, share their experiences here in an effort to provide best practices and battle-tested secrets about which preparations work best. According to Carol Kelly, vice president of government strategies for Meta Group, these are lessons from which everyone can learn. "When disaster strikes, you want to be ready with a plan of action and an approach of how to deal," she says. "You might be ready for the next terrorist attack, but if you're not ready for the next nor'easter, your plans won't amount to much."
Big plans for a small company
Aeneas launched its contingency plan when it was founded in 1996; since then, CIO Hart has enhanced the strategy gradually almost every year. In early 2002, as the ISP neared 10,000 Internet customers, he and his network administrator, Warren, thought up the company's most comprehensive approach yet. While they determined that the likelihood of a terrorist attack on the western Tennessee town of Jackson, population 59,600, was slim to none, they concluded that because of the municipality's location in the central U.S.'s infamous Tornado Alley, the plan should respond to the next most likely cause of disaster--twisters. What ensued was a three-pronged plan that hinged upon colocation, distribution and backups.
First, by employing Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) programming on a high-class circuit shared with an ISP 90 miles
If you actually knew windows enough to authoritatively comment on it, you'd know that a slipstreamed WinXP SP1 full install is not significantly bigger than an original XP SP1 install. The hotfixes and SPs usually only replace files.
I use windows/ie/office and it won't run on my system. Do I look like an idiot? I'm not letting a remote server run arbitrary binary code on my system over a web interface. Someone needs to slap them and hire an IT manager.
Typical open source garbage. The OS already has a much more functional installer system that works far better, with tools included with the OS (no need for expensive SMS or custom logon scripts), and has far more support. What's this NSIS garbage? Third party installers are shit. Use MSI.
Nah, he's a troll because if you compare the memory footprints over the indivdual clients emulated, or actually look at the XML skinning stuff, his objections are provably false So let's see some proof. I've done enough of my own investigating to prove it to myself and several coworkers. You want to put something behind your words, or sit back and talk smack? What's really going to pickle your noodle is that the MS MSN client is the best overall in almost every criterion (except for the obvious lack of multiple service support). Go back to playing linux.
You should go crawl back to school. The user knew perfectly well that he was talking about the IPSec network filter in NT. It runs in the kernel, filters by protocol, port, source, destination, and quite a few other options, is part of nt, and is quite free.
Were they armed marshalls with a valid warrant? If no, they may accept either my invitation of leave my property, or projectiles fired from whatever firearm is handy at the time.
But its pretty obvious that anyone who doesn't upgrade their computer for 5 years, and still expects to view the latest media, is a fool So what's the DVD industry going to do? I guess they'll have to vanish in a puff of logic.
Reality check: computers are not about spending large amounts of money every year on the newest upgrades. It makes no sense to spend money to redesign and replace all of my existing systems with new systems that only comprise a small subset of their functionality for one single factor. CPU speed is not even really relevant for most applications.
1. talk on a zillion dif't protocols without all the resuource hogging of running them yah, it always hogs plenty of resources independent of the plugins.
Seriously, Trillian demonstrates some really poor coding quality. The forced XML skinning is terrible, slow, and buggy, and there are no keyboard shortcuts on pretty much all of the dialogs. It has a LONG way to go before I make the mistake of giving them more money.
We're not idiots. We were smart enough to get hardware decoders. I have several low cost systems scattered around my house (and soon my cars) that will play these back with almost no CPU usage.
Dunno what state you live in. Here in Texas, I decided I wanted a gun (I had reason to believe my life might be in danger - there was a string of burglaries of my neighbors, and my car). I walked over to the pawn shop, plopped down $90 in cash, got an automatic handgun, and walked home with it. Took about half an hour (counting walking). Not too hard is it?
I was in a private school for kindergarten and first grade, and actually knew several (four I think) of my future fellow home schoolers. It also helped that our parents were friends in high school and members of the same "home school support group". These support groups exist all over, and are basically a place to foster social activity where there would inherently be little or none. We did things like go on field trips and have group parties (back to school stuff, monthly meetings, and such). It got a little rouger when my parents became way too involved in a cult that leeched off home schoolers, and we lived alone on a farm (this was while I was from about 13 to 15), I had almost no social interaction outside my family (except for yearly meetings at the cult headquarters, I was lucky to leave the property once a week, and then only for the grocery store). It fell apart after a few years, but it was something of a hell, and I think it contributed significantly to my antisocial tendancies.
In a more abstract sense, I think that for families in otherwise similar situations, home schooling provides about the same level of social interaction. Here's a quick rundown of a typical week: Sunday 0900 to noon: church, noon to 1500: group sunday dinner out or at church with peers, 1800-2100: church small groups or park evening Monday 0600 1100: science tutoring in large group, 1200 to 1600: math tutoring in large group Tuesday 1100 to 1900: canoeing/physical education tutoring in large group Wednesday 1000 to 1300: spanish tutoring in large group, 1800 to 2100 church study or outing with peers Thursday 1200 to 1400 band in large group, 1400 to 1700 drama in large group Friday private tutoring for deficient areas, independent study (like other spare time), individually coordinated social interaction, or group coordinated activities (home school field trip) Saturday same as Friday
This is typical of, say, my sophomore year in high school. Note that most of the large group classes have lead time and cooldown time where we study, catch up on homework, and wait for a ride. Since each family often has a relatively large number of kids (I'm the oldest of eight, last night I was the house of some friends who are second, third, and fourth of thirteen), the parents will often pool resources, and pick up two or more sets of younger kids from a younger kids activity, and another will pick up several sets of older ones. It's not at all uncommon to wait at the driver's house for a hour or two, being social and such, while you wait for your ride home. Other opportunities often present themselves: for example, I was my section's leader in band, and coordinated twice weekly practice with the seven members of my section.
Like I said, properly executed, it can lead to plenty of social interaction. My parents biggest mistake was the cult. Otherwise, I think it would have worked out much better than the average public school. I guess this is partly because it allowed me a very strong focus on my preferred areas of math and science (I went through college calculus 3, college chemistry, and college physics - of course these weren't recognized by the school, except for the calculus AP exam, but it made almost a full semester's worth of classes pretty much blow off).
I was partially home educated (a little of primary and all of secondary school), and I've found that it can be very, very good. You need the right teachers (don't be shy about hiring a private tutor), and it's imperitave that the parents and other siblings take an active role in education. You know, you need to CARE.
Compile to the lowest common denominator, of course! Just as almost anything built for Windows 95 will run on Windows NT, 2000 and XP in theory Great way to make crappy apps. Untrue too. They are very different operating systems.
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Like there was an implied contract between that twelve year old and Sharman Networks (Kazaa)? And what if someone else sues them any way?
Yeah, but I can already do this through explorer with NTFS.
Twisters, hurricanes, floods (oh my)
SEPTEMBER 03, 2003 ( CIO ) - The evening of Sunday, May 4, 2003, at Aeneas Internet and Telephone began as any previous Sunday evening had. The Jackson, Tenn.-based company that serves about 10,000 Internet and 2,500 telephone customers was closed for the weekend, awaiting the return of its 17 employees the next morning. Just before midnight, however, all hell broke loose. An F-4 category twister touched down just outside of town, then tore through Jackson's downtown area, leveling houses, historical sites and municipal buildings alike. The tornado ripped straight through Aeneas's one-story building, leaving only a pile of rubble.
Meanwhile, Aeneas CIO and Operations Manager Josh Hart, who'd heard about multiple tornadoes in the area that day, was home, 52 miles away in Martin, Tenn., huddling in his bathroom with his family. As soon as he was able, he flipped on the TV for news footage of the devastation. What he saw looked like "a war zone," bricks and concrete everywhere and piles upon piles of rubble.
At 2 a.m., with those images in the background, Hart's cell phone rang--it was Aeneas Network Administrator Jason Warren calling from what he likened to Ground Zero to report that everything in Jackson was lost. Another call came in from CEO Jonathan Harlan.
"I'm listening to [Warren] tell me what it's like, and he says, 'It doesn't even look like there was an office here,'" remembers Hart, 25. "The tornado destroyed our computers, our desks, everything. I couldn't believe what he was telling me."
Aeneas lost nearly $1 million in hardware and software that night, and an estimated 72 hours of downtime. But just as Aeneas in Virgil's Aeneid endured the worst the gods had to offer, so too did this Aeneas. This one, however, was wise enough to have created a contingency plan--one that minimized the damage and kept the company afloat during its darkest hour.
The company is not alone. After a nationwide scramble to prepare for high-impact, low-probability events similar to the attacks of Sept. 11, CIOs have since realized that their organizations are far more likely to succumb to another type of event--one that has a high probability of occurring and, curiously enough, is probably simpler to predict: the weather. For example, in June, while the Atlantic seaboard was bracing for the start of hurricane season, Arizona was busy battling forest fires. And in Harris County, Texas, in 2001, a tropical storm and resulting flood taught one IT executive the importance of flexibility.
Both Aeneas's Hart and Steven W. Jennings, Harris County's executive director of central technology, share their experiences here in an effort to provide best practices and battle-tested secrets about which preparations work best. According to Carol Kelly, vice president of government strategies for Meta Group, these are lessons from which everyone can learn. "When disaster strikes, you want to be ready with a plan of action and an approach of how to deal," she says. "You might be ready for the next terrorist attack, but if you're not ready for the next nor'easter, your plans won't amount to much."
Big plans for a small company
Aeneas launched its contingency plan when it was founded in 1996; since then, CIO Hart has enhanced the strategy gradually almost every year. In early 2002, as the ISP neared 10,000 Internet customers, he and his network administrator, Warren, thought up the company's most comprehensive approach yet. While they determined that the likelihood of a terrorist attack on the western Tennessee town of Jackson, population 59,600, was slim to none, they concluded that because of the municipality's location in the central U.S.'s infamous Tornado Alley, the plan should respond to the next most likely cause of disaster--twisters. What ensued was a three-pronged plan that hinged upon colocation, distribution and backups.
First, by employing Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) programming on a high-class circuit shared with an ISP 90 miles
Well I've never had either, soooo . . .
If you actually knew windows enough to authoritatively comment on it, you'd know that a slipstreamed WinXP SP1 full install is not significantly bigger than an original XP SP1 install. The hotfixes and SPs usually only replace files.
I use windows/ie/office and it won't run on my system. Do I look like an idiot? I'm not letting a remote server run arbitrary binary code on my system over a web interface. Someone needs to slap them and hire an IT manager.
Typical open source garbage. The OS already has a much more functional installer system that works far better, with tools included with the OS (no need for expensive SMS or custom logon scripts), and has far more support. What's this NSIS garbage? Third party installers are shit. Use MSI.
Nah, he's a troll because if you compare the memory footprints over the indivdual clients emulated, or actually look at the XML skinning stuff, his objections are provably false
So let's see some proof. I've done enough of my own investigating to prove it to myself and several coworkers. You want to put something behind your words, or sit back and talk smack? What's really going to pickle your noodle is that the MS MSN client is the best overall in almost every criterion (except for the obvious lack of multiple service support). Go back to playing linux.
Why in heaven's name would you give administrative access to your end users? The problem is as much you (or the administrators) as the users.
You should go crawl back to school. The user knew perfectly well that he was talking about the IPSec network filter in NT. It runs in the kernel, filters by protocol, port, source, destination, and quite a few other options, is part of nt, and is quite free.
YOU go back in your hole.
Were they armed marshalls with a valid warrant? If no, they may accept either my invitation of leave my property, or projectiles fired from whatever firearm is handy at the time.
But its pretty obvious that anyone who doesn't upgrade their computer for 5 years, and still expects to view the latest media, is a fool
So what's the DVD industry going to do? I guess they'll have to vanish in a puff of logic.
Reality check: computers are not about spending large amounts of money every year on the newest upgrades. It makes no sense to spend money to redesign and replace all of my existing systems with new systems that only comprise a small subset of their functionality for one single factor. CPU speed is not even really relevant for most applications.
1. talk on a zillion dif't protocols without all the resuource hogging of running them
yah, it always hogs plenty of resources independent of the plugins.
Seriously, Trillian demonstrates some really poor coding quality. The forced XML skinning is terrible, slow, and buggy, and there are no keyboard shortcuts on pretty much all of the dialogs. It has a LONG way to go before I make the mistake of giving them more money.
Not everyone cares to have the latest AMD oven in their bedroom. Or car radio.
We're not idiots. We were smart enough to get hardware decoders. I have several low cost systems scattered around my house (and soon my cars) that will play these back with almost no CPU usage.
I think you actually mean milquetoast.
Dunno what state you live in. Here in Texas, I decided I wanted a gun (I had reason to believe my life might be in danger - there was a string of burglaries of my neighbors, and my car). I walked over to the pawn shop, plopped down $90 in cash, got an automatic handgun, and walked home with it. Took about half an hour (counting walking). Not too hard is it?
I was in a private school for kindergarten and first grade, and actually knew several (four I think) of my future fellow home schoolers. It also helped that our parents were friends in high school and members of the same "home school support group". These support groups exist all over, and are basically a place to foster social activity where there would inherently be little or none. We did things like go on field trips and have group parties (back to school stuff, monthly meetings, and such). It got a little rouger when my parents became way too involved in a cult that leeched off home schoolers, and we lived alone on a farm (this was while I was from about 13 to 15), I had almost no social interaction outside my family (except for yearly meetings at the cult headquarters, I was lucky to leave the property once a week, and then only for the grocery store). It fell apart after a few years, but it was something of a hell, and I think it contributed significantly to my antisocial tendancies.
In a more abstract sense, I think that for families in otherwise similar situations, home schooling provides about the same level of social interaction. Here's a quick rundown of a typical week:
Sunday 0900 to noon: church, noon to 1500: group sunday dinner out or at church with peers, 1800-2100: church small groups or park evening
Monday 0600 1100: science tutoring in large group, 1200 to 1600: math tutoring in large group
Tuesday 1100 to 1900: canoeing/physical education tutoring in large group
Wednesday 1000 to 1300: spanish tutoring in large group, 1800 to 2100 church study or outing with peers
Thursday 1200 to 1400 band in large group, 1400 to 1700 drama in large group
Friday private tutoring for deficient areas, independent study (like other spare time), individually coordinated social interaction, or group coordinated activities (home school field trip)
Saturday same as Friday
This is typical of, say, my sophomore year in high school. Note that most of the large group classes have lead time and cooldown time where we study, catch up on homework, and wait for a ride. Since each family often has a relatively large number of kids (I'm the oldest of eight, last night I was the house of some friends who are second, third, and fourth of thirteen), the parents will often pool resources, and pick up two or more sets of younger kids from a younger kids activity, and another will pick up several sets of older ones. It's not at all uncommon to wait at the driver's house for a hour or two, being social and such, while you wait for your ride home. Other opportunities often present themselves: for example, I was my section's leader in band, and coordinated twice weekly practice with the seven members of my section.
Like I said, properly executed, it can lead to plenty of social interaction. My parents biggest mistake was the cult. Otherwise, I think it would have worked out much better than the average public school. I guess this is partly because it allowed me a very strong focus on my preferred areas of math and science (I went through college calculus 3, college chemistry, and college physics - of course these weren't recognized by the school, except for the calculus AP exam, but it made almost a full semester's worth of classes pretty much blow off).
I believe you're right about the optiplexes not having firewire (the only card I can find at Dell costs $75 also). But I know the laptops had it.
I adminned a dozen Inspiron systems, and every single one of them had firewire. So's my mother's inspiron 2650. Works for me.
I was partially home educated (a little of primary and all of secondary school), and I've found that it can be very, very good. You need the right teachers (don't be shy about hiring a private tutor), and it's imperitave that the parents and other siblings take an active role in education. You know, you need to CARE.
Compile to the lowest common denominator, of course! Just as almost anything built for Windows 95 will run on Windows NT, 2000 and XP in theory
Great way to make crappy apps. Untrue too. They are very different operating systems.
Hahahahaha. I did that to my brother last week. On purpose. Hey, if I ain't getting any, nobody needs to be getting any.
Seriously, I think the PTT can be as much as a liability, even outside sexual endeavors, as anything else on the phone.
The equivalent would be deleting %PPDATA% (usually "c:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Application Data"). It doesn't do much either.
Eh. Halloween? Oh geez.