Similar here, but RAID is RAID1 for the partition where the OS, email (IMAP on Maildirs), and must-not-go-down files are, RAID0 where the must-be-recoverable and re-downloadable stuff goes. Backup is via rdiff-backup (plain files) and cp --sparse=always (sparse iSCSI shares) to an eSATA drive cradle.
Also, I ran multiple backup/recovery drills for scenarios such as accidental deletion or overwrite of files, Partial failure (one mirror of the Raid1, all of the RAID0), and complete failure on a VM before I even ordered the hardware.
This is a good theory, but evidence seems to point to the information commissioner not giving a rats ass. You can tell by all the stores who swipe your interac or credit card into their POS despite having a cardswipe in the pinpad (I'm talking about you, Petrocan, Canadian tire, Wallmart, Ben Moss Jewelers, etc.)
Punctuated equilibria is not incompatible with darwinism if the competitive pressures are changing in a non-uniform manner (ie occasional natural disasters changing distriibution of food plants, glaciation and interglacial periods, introduction of new predators, etc).
Yeah, They and mobilicity are both in Vancouver, but not outside the lower mainland in BC. I was looking at getting a mobilicity plan until I found out I'd pay roaming charges at home
I work at a sub-contractor doing on-site IT for many-many large IT companies. I deal with a LOT of different helpdesks, both north-american (I am on an Island off the west coast of Canada) and further afield. While it may seem like a good idea to use VOIP to send the first level crew offshore, it is not. The combination of site background noise, long distance phone, VOIP jitter, strong accents, speaker phone on one or both ends, and a boiler-room environment on the offshore side usually makes the calls to offshore helpdesk take WAY longer. Remember, you're not just paying for the helpdesk, you're also paying for your employee's time on this end (or your customer's - through lost future sales, or worse, a sub-contractor on hourly time & materials).
Due to local demographics, I am quite used to dealing with people with a wide variety of accents. Just yesterday though I had a service call to repair a retail server which took about an hour longer than it should have because I could not understand the handful of commands the helpdesk tech was telling me to type, and he did not know the north american phonetic alphabet - nor in many cases the correct english pronunciation of the names of letters (there is no letter "yay" nor "yee"), and the phone connection to India was so bad that I could barely hear him to start with.
Of course in tis particular case the helpdesk is not the only reason the company is spending money hand-over-fist for IT maintenance -- they are still running VAXen and alphas in their production environment, and they are well past the availability of repair parts.
It will break if changing motherboard models, not just swaping a failing motherboard for an identical replacement.
Replacing HDDs is part of normal system maintenance; replacing the motherboard (thus probably chipset, ethernet, CPU, RAM, etc) with a different model is a system change project anyways, and will likely require substantial tweaks throughout.
I was considering a Milestone as the folks at the store assure me that it can be tethered. Then I checked the manual.. no mention... so I checked the FAQ... no, it can't be tethered... So I checked and cyanogenmod supports tethering... But mods can't be loaded on Motorola... so fsck them.
If police seize a smartphone, do you think they will bother looking into the settings to determine if the emails are on the phone (POP) or in your house (IMAP|Exchange), or do you think they'll just read the emails?
For a while in college I was unable to use my right hand. I brought a laptop to take notes but found I got more out of the classes by paying attention and not taking any notes in the lectures and being an active participant in seminars. Of course everyone's learning style is different so YMMV. Also, the freebee laptop I was using was so old that there was limited opportunity for distraction (I took notes in DOS EDIT as win 3.11 ran too slow on it).
Last year I did a bit of a survey of what's out there in the small aircraft space as I have a dream of one day building my own basic ultralight (similar rules here to what is called a Light Sport Aircraft in the US).
Most of the aircraft engines out there are based on either the VW bug engine or 1970's snowmobile engines. From what I've read it looks like it's mainly fear of liability that keeps newer designs out of the air. Just about any engine would be reliable if it's rebuilt every 300 hours, so long as it has a dry sump and intake preheat. The Yamaha Genesis series of snowmobile engines look like just the ticket... They have dry sump and preheat, but they also have much higher efficiency and lower emissions. Furthermore they have power density (130HP model is
In the STOL wingplan arena there's been a few experiments comparing full-length leading edge slots to wings with vortex generators. Vortex generators seem to provide almost as much lift at high angles/low speeds, but produce a whole lot less drag in cruise.
There's a few designs out there for propellers for small STOL aircraft that are quiet and efficient. The "Windspoon" by Duc Helices is an example.
Electric would be much lower emissions (especially where I live where almost all comes from hydroelectric or wind), but Lithium Polymer batteries are crazy expensive. A strictly airport-to-airport planned and schedulled service could do well with electric. I want to take my plane camping. Maybe by the time I can afford to build a plane the cost and energy density of batteries will make this possible.
Hmmm... AMD 1090T $279.98 CDN,... Intel i7 960 $651.98 CDN,.... The $372 difference can buy a whopping GPU, Stack of RAM, or SSD (or contribute to all 3), which will probably make a bigger difference anyways, depending on workload.
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Kerberos is not in the Linux Kernel.
Similar here, but RAID is RAID1 for the partition where the OS, email (IMAP on Maildirs), and must-not-go-down files are, RAID0 where the must-be-recoverable and re-downloadable stuff goes. Backup is via rdiff-backup (plain files) and cp --sparse=always (sparse iSCSI shares) to an eSATA drive cradle.
Also, I ran multiple backup/recovery drills for scenarios such as accidental deletion or overwrite of files, Partial failure (one mirror of the Raid1, all of the RAID0), and complete failure on a VM before I even ordered the hardware.
The Ubuntu number probably includes all the Ubuntu flavours, such as Kubuntu (my favourite) and Xubuntu.
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This is a good theory, but evidence seems to point to the information commissioner not giving a rats ass. You can tell by all the stores who swipe your interac or credit card into their POS despite having a cardswipe in the pinpad (I'm talking about you, Petrocan, Canadian tire, Wallmart, Ben Moss Jewelers, etc.)
1) Tablets are NOT being adopted by many tech companies because they are worthless for doing actual work on.
I can see a lot of applications - basically anything that can't be tied to a desk...
Thanks for the links, I just found a slovenian blogger using my images.
Punctuated equilibria is not incompatible with darwinism if the competitive pressures are changing in a non-uniform manner (ie occasional natural disasters changing distriibution of food plants, glaciation and interglacial periods, introduction of new predators, etc).
How are "canadian" publicly traded companies any better than "foreign" publicly traded companies?
Yeah, They and mobilicity are both in Vancouver, but not outside the lower mainland in BC. I was looking at getting a mobilicity plan until I found out I'd pay roaming charges at home
I work at a sub-contractor doing on-site IT for many-many large IT companies. I deal with a LOT of different helpdesks, both north-american (I am on an Island off the west coast of Canada) and further afield. While it may seem like a good idea to use VOIP to send the first level crew offshore, it is not. The combination of site background noise, long distance phone, VOIP jitter, strong accents, speaker phone on one or both ends, and a boiler-room environment on the offshore side usually makes the calls to offshore helpdesk take WAY longer. Remember, you're not just paying for the helpdesk, you're also paying for your employee's time on this end (or your customer's - through lost future sales, or worse, a sub-contractor on hourly time & materials).
Due to local demographics, I am quite used to dealing with people with a wide variety of accents. Just yesterday though I had a service call to repair a retail server which took about an hour longer than it should have because I could not understand the handful of commands the helpdesk tech was telling me to type, and he did not know the north american phonetic alphabet - nor in many cases the correct english pronunciation of the names of letters (there is no letter "yay" nor "yee"), and the phone connection to India was so bad that I could barely hear him to start with.
Of course in tis particular case the helpdesk is not the only reason the company is spending money hand-over-fist for IT maintenance -- they are still running VAXen and alphas in their production environment, and they are well past the availability of repair parts.
Nope, acceleration is an effect of force on mass.
Nope, Newton is the SI unit of force.
It will break if changing motherboard models, not just swaping a failing motherboard for an identical replacement. Replacing HDDs is part of normal system maintenance; replacing the motherboard (thus probably chipset, ethernet, CPU, RAM, etc) with a different model is a system change project anyways, and will likely require substantial tweaks throughout.
I prefer /dev/disk/by-path
This way whatever disk I put in the eSATA is on my backup mountpoint, and the USB key in a specific USB port is logs.
The joke came first.
And sell you stuff that is dead out of box, crashes VERY frequently, and/or fails at an alarming rate.
Can you do port forwarding? I need to allow SSH into my laptop.
I was considering a Milestone as the folks at the store assure me that it can be tethered. Then I checked the manual.. no mention... so I checked the FAQ... no, it can't be tethered... So I checked and cyanogenmod supports tethering... But mods can't be loaded on Motorola... so fsck them.
Unless the company ceases operation.
If police seize a smartphone, do you think they will bother looking into the settings to determine if the emails are on the phone (POP) or in your house (IMAP|Exchange), or do you think they'll just read the emails?
For a while in college I was unable to use my right hand. I brought a laptop to take notes but found I got more out of the classes by paying attention and not taking any notes in the lectures and being an active participant in seminars. Of course everyone's learning style is different so YMMV. Also, the freebee laptop I was using was so old that there was limited opportunity for distraction (I took notes in DOS EDIT as win 3.11 ran too slow on it).
Relatively safe unless there are components in your fuel delivery system that are vulnerable to polar solvents, like the fuel pump seals in my car.
Last year I did a bit of a survey of what's out there in the small aircraft space as I have a dream of one day building my own basic ultralight (similar rules here to what is called a Light Sport Aircraft in the US).
Most of the aircraft engines out there are based on either the VW bug engine or 1970's snowmobile engines. From what I've read it looks like it's mainly fear of liability that keeps newer designs out of the air. Just about any engine would be reliable if it's rebuilt every 300 hours, so long as it has a dry sump and intake preheat. The Yamaha Genesis series of snowmobile engines look like just the ticket... They have dry sump and preheat, but they also have much higher efficiency and lower emissions. Furthermore they have power density (130HP model is
In the STOL wingplan arena there's been a few experiments comparing full-length leading edge slots to wings with vortex generators. Vortex generators seem to provide almost as much lift at high angles/low speeds, but produce a whole lot less drag in cruise.
There's a few designs out there for propellers for small STOL aircraft that are quiet and efficient. The "Windspoon" by Duc Helices is an example.
Electric would be much lower emissions (especially where I live where almost all comes from hydroelectric or wind), but Lithium Polymer batteries are crazy expensive. A strictly airport-to-airport planned and schedulled service could do well with electric. I want to take my plane camping. Maybe by the time I can afford to build a plane the cost and energy density of batteries will make this possible.
Hmmm... AMD 1090T $279.98 CDN, ... Intel i7 960 $651.98 CDN, .... The $372 difference can buy a whopping GPU, Stack of RAM, or SSD (or contribute to all 3), which will probably make a bigger difference anyways, depending on workload.
(Prices from NCIX.com, I am not affiliated with them)