The grid has always required some type of base load to provide the minimum amount to service customers and to keep the frequency at 60hz. Historically this has been coal. With more and more solar and wind coming online the mininum base load keeps reducing. While not currently a perfect solution, battery storage is quickly becoming a contender to provide that base load with inputs from wind, solar and peeking gas plants. See the latest trial that was run in Australia with a Tesla battery. The ROI was very high and from the reports it provided a very fast reacting stable base.
'It took her office almost four years to secure $36 million for updated assessors' hardware and software...'
'The design requirements are due to be finalized this summer.'
What comes first, the chicken, the egg, the funding, or the requirements?
Typically starts with a budgetary quote typically +-30% based current install base and a multitude of assumptions, plus a basic wish list of what the updated system should do. At this point they give them the budgetary number which then allows the agency to go for funding for the project. Once funding has been approved for the project then a full audit is done on the system, all of the detailed pieces are looked at and all of the i's dotted and the t's crossed. During this time the final system layout is reviewed and approved. The final quote is then delivered to the customer which is then used to issue the Purchase Orders to the vendor so they can start working on it. If the budgetary quote was good then in theory the project should be at or below what was quoted.
I have several customers in our area including hospitals that have their own private paging systems. The spectrum is licensed and dedicated to their use. The are only designed to work with-in their facilities, which in the case of hospital staff, is mainly where they need the quick response. Outside the facilities then standard phone calls, text messaging can be used to call someone in.
The major downside is the support of the infrastructure to keep the system running, but with regular maintenance it's not that big of an ask.
Looks like a staged roll-out with the highest prices for day 1 and decreasing from there. I'm guessing it's letting the ones with deep pockets pickup their preferred domain name while paying a large premium to do so. Godaddy has a pretty good layout of the pricing for each day till it reaching the standard of $14ish for the public.
Looks like some of the resellers have there pricing messed up. GoDaddy seems to have the pricing correct at approx $14 / yr while NameCheap is showing $11,011.00 with a $11.00/year renewal.
It think the shorter list will be who's info was not compromised. Looking at the https://www.census.gov/popcloc..., the current US population is approx 328 million, with 7.5 billion in the world. The number of unique entries in this dump is north of 2.3 billion. It is possible that 1 in 3 people in the world have had there info compromised. I know this is a very simplistic way of looking at it, but nonetheless a very sobering reminder of the current state of security with-in the companies that hold our personal data.
I would equate this more to a vehicle lease. While the car is under warranty the dealership takes care of the repairs, but not normal maintenance like oil changes, tires, etc. Once the vehicle is no longer covered by the factory warranty the lessee is then on the hook for any repairs to the vehicle for the remainder of the lease.
I treat the Zillow estimate the same way as a budgetary quote for customers, it's+-30%. Using the 30% number her townhome fall's well within the range of the margin of error. If you want a real estimate pay to have a person to come look at your house and put a value on it, they are called restate agents.
Then the question becomes, how far out will you let the latency be set? 100ms? 200? 300? What if you have a person playing on a crappy dsl line? Do you you want to bring everyone to their level? If not then what do you do with the high latency player?
This plus a multitude of other questions come into play when trying to start this type of management. Typically you just end up pissing most everyone.
Back in the day I would dial into Chrysalis BBS in Dallas, TX. At one point the BBS had 96 lines into it so it had chat rooms and multi-player games. I started out on a 2400 baud modem, stepped up to a 14.4 modem and when I got the 56K modem, I was on top of the world.
They had one MUD that I would play, every night at 3am the in game goodies would reset. There was one area that you could buy gold, silver and copper. The supply was very very limited so you had to be in the area when the game reset cause it was gone with in mins. I remember setting my alarm for 2:55 one morning, I got up got the goods, sold them and went back to bed. This MUD had active devs that would add new areas which kept it fun. May I wish I could remember the name of it. At one point the SysOp tried to bring the BBS back online through a web portal about 10 years ago, but it really went anywhere.
Problem 1: Why would you use the registry to find an app path? What happened to using the system environment path which is already secured? Registry. Pshhh!
Problem 2: Auto Elevation. Microsoft introduces UAC. People get annoyed with it. Microsoft introduces Auto Elevation. Guess what, still annoying and now possible security hole.
I am fine if Windows asks me to enter a user and password to elevate. It works on my *cough* Linux desktop. Annoying? Yes. Secure? More so. But really, how often does one use admin functions?
The way Windows handles stuff I need/user admin features daily. I routinely change my IP address on my interface to work with various systems. I use the task manager to diagnose issues with a system. There are others, but every time I go into the network interface it prompts for the password, I leave the interface for and then go right back into it, I type the password. I understand what the UAC was supposed to accomplish, but in the end it's another layer upon layer of stuff Microsoft has added to attempt to make it more secure.
In years past to use some web based software supplied by vendor you HAD to use IE or it wouldn't work. It's more and more that vendors are not requiring IE and have gone one additional step. They now recommend a different browser like Chrome or FireFox. I have run across a few packages that almost refuse to render correctly in IE.
I had a legacy program that was DOS only. The only copy of the program the customer had running on the legacy equipment was in that program. I got it running well enough to dump the code to an output text file that I was able to then migrate forward to the modern version.
I support equipment in the industrial sector. We have a few of the Vax QBUS consoles left in production that are from the late 80's to early 90's. They use 46 MB MFM hard drives and to load them 5 1/4" floppies are used. The console support 4 heads via RGB video and serial cables for the keyboard. No mouse on this thing. Some of the units support touch screen through an XY IR interface but those were rare since they were very finicky. The console has removable boards that allow for different combo's of CPU, Memory, Video, and disk controllers. The consoles are surprisingly robust with the exception of the hard drives which have a very high failure rate.
Not necessarily, there have been a few times where Comcast has opened up these APs for use with out logging in. This was happened after the major flooding in Texas. No login, just hop on to the AP and go.
The problem with most of the credit monitoring companies is the little they do can be done by the consumer for a lot less. The real work comes when your identity has been stolen and the hundreds of hours it takes to clean up the mess. This is where you need a company that will do the legwork for you. I use Zander Insurance's ID theft program. I look at it as one more insurance that I pay per year. If/When I need them they are there and I won't have as much pain to endure and the massive learning curve to cleaning up ID fraud on your own.
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Naaa, they just work for the FBI https://www.usatoday.com/story...
The grid has always required some type of base load to provide the minimum amount to service customers and to keep the frequency at 60hz. Historically this has been coal. With more and more solar and wind coming online the mininum base load keeps reducing. While not currently a perfect solution, battery storage is quickly becoming a contender to provide that base load with inputs from wind, solar and peeking gas plants. See the latest trial that was run in Australia with a Tesla battery. The ROI was very high and from the reports it provided a very fast reacting stable base.
'It took her office almost four years to secure $36 million for updated assessors' hardware and software...' 'The design requirements are due to be finalized this summer.'
What comes first, the chicken, the egg, the funding, or the requirements?
Typically starts with a budgetary quote typically +-30% based current install base and a multitude of assumptions, plus a basic wish list of what the updated system should do. At this point they give them the budgetary number which then allows the agency to go for funding for the project. Once funding has been approved for the project then a full audit is done on the system, all of the detailed pieces are looked at and all of the i's dotted and the t's crossed. During this time the final system layout is reviewed and approved. The final quote is then delivered to the customer which is then used to issue the Purchase Orders to the vendor so they can start working on it. If the budgetary quote was good then in theory the project should be at or below what was quoted.
I have several customers in our area including hospitals that have their own private paging systems. The spectrum is licensed and dedicated to their use. The are only designed to work with-in their facilities, which in the case of hospital staff, is mainly where they need the quick response. Outside the facilities then standard phone calls, text messaging can be used to call someone in.
The major downside is the support of the infrastructure to keep the system running, but with regular maintenance it's not that big of an ask.
Looks like a staged roll-out with the highest prices for day 1 and decreasing from there. I'm guessing it's letting the ones with deep pockets pickup their preferred domain name while paying a large premium to do so. Godaddy has a pretty good layout of the pricing for each day till it reaching the standard of $14ish for the public.
https://www.godaddy.com/tlds/d...
Looks like some of the resellers have there pricing messed up. GoDaddy seems to have the pricing correct at approx $14 / yr while NameCheap is showing $11,011.00 with a $11.00/year renewal.
It think the shorter list will be who's info was not compromised. Looking at the https://www.census.gov/popcloc..., the current US population is approx 328 million, with 7.5 billion in the world. The number of unique entries in this dump is north of 2.3 billion. It is possible that 1 in 3 people in the world have had there info compromised. I know this is a very simplistic way of looking at it, but nonetheless a very sobering reminder of the current state of security with-in the companies that hold our personal data.
I would equate this more to a vehicle lease. While the car is under warranty the dealership takes care of the repairs, but not normal maintenance like oil changes, tires, etc. Once the vehicle is no longer covered by the factory warranty the lessee is then on the hook for any repairs to the vehicle for the remainder of the lease.
Every single email that I checked shows to have been compromised. Sigh.....
The last I checked I could buy my own modem and use it on my Comcast service to avoid the rental fees. They even publish a list of approved modems.
Home
https://mydeviceinfo.xfinity.c...
Business
https://business.comcast.com/h...
I believe they hang on to it for 30 days before purging it.
I'm looking into CloudBerry and using a storage provider like Amazon Glacier. One time purchase of the software plus storage costs.
I treat the Zillow estimate the same way as a budgetary quote for customers, it's+-30%. Using the 30% number her townhome fall's well within the range of the margin of error. If you want a real estimate pay to have a person to come look at your house and put a value on it, they are called restate agents.
At this rate it'll need to be a 64bit int.
Then the question becomes, how far out will you let the latency be set? 100ms? 200? 300? What if you have a person playing on a crappy dsl line? Do you you want to bring everyone to their level? If not then what do you do with the high latency player?
This plus a multitude of other questions come into play when trying to start this type of management. Typically you just end up pissing most everyone.
Back in the day I would dial into Chrysalis BBS in Dallas, TX. At one point the BBS had 96 lines into it so it had chat rooms and multi-player games. I started out on a 2400 baud modem, stepped up to a 14.4 modem and when I got the 56K modem, I was on top of the world.
They had one MUD that I would play, every night at 3am the in game goodies would reset. There was one area that you could buy gold, silver and copper. The supply was very very limited so you had to be in the area when the game reset cause it was gone with in mins. I remember setting my alarm for 2:55 one morning, I got up got the goods, sold them and went back to bed. This MUD had active devs that would add new areas which kept it fun. May I wish I could remember the name of it. At one point the SysOp tried to bring the BBS back online through a web portal about 10 years ago, but it really went anywhere.
Problem 1: Why would you use the registry to find an app path? What happened to using the system environment path which is already secured? Registry. Pshhh!
Problem 2: Auto Elevation. Microsoft introduces UAC. People get annoyed with it. Microsoft introduces Auto Elevation. Guess what, still annoying and now possible security hole.
I am fine if Windows asks me to enter a user and password to elevate. It works on my *cough* Linux desktop. Annoying? Yes. Secure? More so. But really, how often does one use admin functions?
The way Windows handles stuff I need/user admin features daily. I routinely change my IP address on my interface to work with various systems. I use the task manager to diagnose issues with a system. There are others, but every time I go into the network interface it prompts for the password, I leave the interface for and then go right back into it, I type the password. I understand what the UAC was supposed to accomplish, but in the end it's another layer upon layer of stuff Microsoft has added to attempt to make it more secure.
In years past to use some web based software supplied by vendor you HAD to use IE or it wouldn't work. It's more and more that vendors are not requiring IE and have gone one additional step. They now recommend a different browser like Chrome or FireFox. I have run across a few packages that almost refuse to render correctly in IE.
I had a legacy program that was DOS only. The only copy of the program the customer had running on the legacy equipment was in that program. I got it running well enough to dump the code to an output text file that I was able to then migrate forward to the modern version.
According the article the early problems with the 840 line that was fixed will have the corrections carried to the 750 line.
I support equipment in the industrial sector. We have a few of the Vax QBUS consoles left in production that are from the late 80's to early 90's. They use 46 MB MFM hard drives and to load them 5 1/4" floppies are used. The console support 4 heads via RGB video and serial cables for the keyboard. No mouse on this thing. Some of the units support touch screen through an XY IR interface but those were rare since they were very finicky. The console has removable boards that allow for different combo's of CPU, Memory, Video, and disk controllers. The consoles are surprisingly robust with the exception of the hard drives which have a very high failure rate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Not necessarily, there have been a few times where Comcast has opened up these APs for use with out logging in. This was happened after the major flooding in Texas. No login, just hop on to the AP and go.
Obligatory XKCD comic...
http://xkcd.com/327/
The problem with most of the credit monitoring companies is the little they do can be done by the consumer for a lot less. The real work comes when your identity has been stolen and the hundreds of hours it takes to clean up the mess. This is where you need a company that will do the legwork for you. I use Zander Insurance's ID theft program. I look at it as one more insurance that I pay per year. If/When I need them they are there and I won't have as much pain to endure and the massive learning curve to cleaning up ID fraud on your own.
With as little time as I have I try to sneak in a round of two of World of Tanks every now and then. The rounds are quick and fun.