I realize I've posted already but I failed to mention a key aspect.
To this date, across more than a decade of Windows network administration, I have yet to discover a NAS device that I trust. The manufacturer's goal is typically to make it as cheap as possible to create the largest profit margin, with the expectation that the consumer will just buy a new one when it fails I also greatly dislike external hard drives for the same reason, though I own a pair of 'portable' hard drives which I find far less flaky (it's also nice they power from USB) because they're built to be moved around. I keep backups on one in a fire safe in the garage.
Best option is automated synchronization between PCs on your LAN and an internet host. DropBox does this. I believe SpiderOak will too, linked by another member here.
My strongest advice is to avoid cheap NASes and external hard drives, which is the first place people tend to look.
Consistent time of day is vastly more important than the 'complexity' of converting time based on time zones. If you're not converting one then you're converting the other. To everyone in the world, lunch is at noon. If you change that then you're changing more than we do already.
More importantly! Why do we use a time system with such a bizarre base numbering system!?
1 year 12 months per year 28 - 31 days per month 52 weeks per year 4 - 4.5 weeks per month 7 days per week 24 hours per day 60 minutes per hour 60 seconds per minute
Metric time fixes all that by converting everything to base ten, with the exception of days per year, which is defined by the pace of our favorite rock hurling through space - something we really don't have control over.
365 days per year drop months drop weeks 10 hours per day 100 minutes per hour 100 seconds per minute
What is currently 2011/08/27-18:23:35 becomes 2011/239-7:66:37
The cool thing is, seconds are very nearly the same length of time given the small difference between 86,400 seconds in a day versus 100,000 seconds in a day.
There seems to be confusion in what 'middleboxes' are. I don't believe this term refers to firewalls and NATing devices. It would seem to mean something more like a device that augments the data as it's passing it. Like a web filter that edits HTML on the fly to add, remove, or replace ads. Or an SMTP monitor that captures emails and includes some additional data as its being relayed. Or the Comcast DNS servers that can give you non-authoritative responses sending you to the destination of THEIR choice.
Firewalls aren't middleboxes. They just kill connections (as a basic firewall - clearly more complex firewalls can do greater tasks).
This sort of thing happens in education. Software producers know they need to plan for future users so they give it to the kids who they hope will buy it. Some coworkers of mine at an advertising agency said their professor called Quark (makers of QuarkXpress) asking for educational discounts for 30+ licenses and were told there was no discount. At the time the license cost was something like $1200 per seat. So they called Adobe and asked for educational discounts on InDesign, new at the time, and Adobe just gave them everything they wanted at no cost.
Worked in their favor too. When those kids hit the working world they only knew InDesign and their employers were forced to switch. We did. And never looked back.
"Then Adobe hit the market in 1999 with a program called InDesign (now used by Inc.). In 2003, Adobe launched its Creative Suite, which rolled in products such as Photoshop and Illustrator with InDesign. Quark couldn't come close. Its U.S. market share tumbled from 95 percent to just 25 percent."
Lotus Domino (server) and Notes (client) are actually alive and well. This article is old, obviously, but you can see that Notes/Domino was slowly slipping until 2006 where it began to recover.
I was a Domino admin for 9 years, from 1999 to 2008, versions 4.5 to 8.0 I believe, with a single server instance. I am now an Exchange admin and have been for about 3 years, versions 2003, 2007, and 2010.
The whole time I was a Domino admin I wanted to convert to Exchange. Now that I am an Exchange admin I wouldn't mind deploying Domino. They both have peculiar issues. Domino has really weird wording in their config documents, but Exchange/Outlook have a really hard time with virus/trojan/malware issues.
It's a toss up. I really don't think you can go wrong with either one, so long as you know what you're doing with the one you've chosen.
Even though Mac OS and OS X both have extensive keyboard controls, neither is possible to use exclusively with a keyboard. I've found Windows to be the most keyboard friendly GUI OS. Which I think is kind of odd...
Not that I condone the security measures currently in place.... but....
It's been a long time since we've heard of an airplane disruption on a domestic flight... do we really need to up the specs on this technology?
I think you might have answered your own question, and the answer is "Yes". Without security measures buildings get blown up. With security measures buildings don't get blown up.
Working in IT I occasionally hear, "Well nothing is broken, I guess we can reduce the IT staff." As soon as they do, stuff starts breaking. Gee! Maybe it's because all that IT staff was keeping it unbroken!
So, yes, security is required in order to keep the shitheads from fucking up our air travel. The amount and type of security we're using is probably less necessary than we are lead to believe. Someone is seriously working the United States out of its money.
They state that they gained 150 MPG with GPS data.
"The GPS information made a big difference and added 150 mpg."
A more standard car likely wouldn't see the same >10% boost in economy, but I'm sure it would help. I'd love to see Toyota, Tesla, and other incorporate GPS data into their products' efficiency capabilities. It can only be a positive outcome for the car to use terrain information in calculating how and when to manipulate the drive train.
If you really want to get people to run virus scanners (without making the scanner a virus itself) you'll have to make it beneficial to the individual. Create some really fun game and buried in the EULA mention that the program does a virus sweep each time it launches.
Actually there is no reference to the time frame in the text, but using the time in the lower left of the video it looks like the "event" lasted about 5 hours.
There are a couple I get to my gmail account. Some of the earlier ones I actually was able to reply to and ask them them to correct their contact list and have their intended contact send me a message so I could forward other mail for him. He's sent a few of my errant messages to me as well. We just have a single letter swapped in our addresses so it happens somewhat frequently - we even type or own addresses wrong sometimes.
So, I'd say, get in touch with the intended recipients. Together you can make a plan of action and make sure that everyone is more careful with their addresses.
Other than this goofy issue, I've had no problems using Gmail. It's a great service.
IDNRTA (I did not read the article), is this video in actual time or some kind of sped up? If it's actual speed then those flames were moving insanely fast. Regardless of that aspect, they travel a very far distance.
I was referring more to the HUGE controller than the features it provides. Yes they've done it before and it's a great idea. They need to do more of it. But the controller / handheld console / thing needs to be about half that size.
I think an intellectual is a person who asks questions and attempts to answer them. A knowledge seeker. They don't ask the same questions over and over - and they share their results openly.
The alt text for the image is "new nintendo wii e3 small". Yeah, there's nothing small about that control, people. This is probably the most anti-Nintendo thing I think I've ever seen Nintendo do.
I wonder if using a variety of masses would be beneficial in having quicker response times for varying current fluctuations.
Also, I've wondered about using flywheels in freight trains. It would seem a car or two with massive flywheels could be used on downhills to store energy while braking and uphills to add in a little kick. There would likely have paired flywheels to counter each other's rotation and keep from flipping the car off the track. But just doing some really basic math, if you were to add a single 80 ton 'flywheel car' to a train of 100 cars you'd only be adding 1% load. All you'd need to gain is >1% fuel saving for it to be beneficial, and 80 tons of flywheel could surely do that. Surely?
Well I don't think this is going to be the solution, but I'm glad government money is getting spent on positive science instead of just blowing things up. Now give me high speed rail and we'll be getting somewhere (pun not intended).
Yes, and in games produced by US citizens I can play as a terrorist where I can shoot hostages and SWAT officers.
Though, I do have a somewhat difficult time referring to software that mimics the and glorifies the act of killing humans as a game. It's just easier than coming up with a new term, and it's not quite a simulator.
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I realize I've posted already but I failed to mention a key aspect.
To this date, across more than a decade of Windows network administration, I have yet to discover a NAS device that I trust. The manufacturer's goal is typically to make it as cheap as possible to create the largest profit margin, with the expectation that the consumer will just buy a new one when it fails I also greatly dislike external hard drives for the same reason, though I own a pair of 'portable' hard drives which I find far less flaky (it's also nice they power from USB) because they're built to be moved around. I keep backups on one in a fire safe in the garage.
Best option is automated synchronization between PCs on your LAN and an internet host. DropBox does this. I believe SpiderOak will too, linked by another member here.
My strongest advice is to avoid cheap NASes and external hard drives, which is the first place people tend to look.
DropBox with local caching and multiple PCs. You do have multiple PCs, don't you? If you don't, GTFO.
http://www.dropbox.com/
Consistent time of day is vastly more important than the 'complexity' of converting time based on time zones. If you're not converting one then you're converting the other. To everyone in the world, lunch is at noon. If you change that then you're changing more than we do already.
More importantly! Why do we use a time system with such a bizarre base numbering system!?
1 year
12 months per year
28 - 31 days per month
52 weeks per year
4 - 4.5 weeks per month
7 days per week
24 hours per day
60 minutes per hour
60 seconds per minute
Metric time fixes all that by converting everything to base ten, with the exception of days per year, which is defined by the pace of our favorite rock hurling through space - something we really don't have control over.
365 days per year
drop months
drop weeks
10 hours per day
100 minutes per hour
100 seconds per minute
What is currently
2011/08/27-18:23:35
becomes
2011/239-7:66:37
The cool thing is, seconds are very nearly the same length of time given the small difference between 86,400 seconds in a day versus 100,000 seconds in a day.
Blue Bell Ice Cream.
http://bluebell.com/the_little_creamery/still_a_half_gallon.html
If Blue Bell is not available in your area I am very sorry :(
http://bluebell.com/the_little_creamery/blue_bell_country.html
Free Geek can help you.
http://www.freegeek.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Geek#Locations
There seems to be confusion in what 'middleboxes' are. I don't believe this term refers to firewalls and NATing devices. It would seem to mean something more like a device that augments the data as it's passing it. Like a web filter that edits HTML on the fly to add, remove, or replace ads. Or an SMTP monitor that captures emails and includes some additional data as its being relayed. Or the Comcast DNS servers that can give you non-authoritative responses sending you to the destination of THEIR choice.
Firewalls aren't middleboxes. They just kill connections (as a basic firewall - clearly more complex firewalls can do greater tasks).
Eye tracking built into a display so it can adjust the image? Sounds like a great way to keep the ads right in front of you.
No thanks!
This sort of thing happens in education. Software producers know they need to plan for future users so they give it to the kids who they hope will buy it. Some coworkers of mine at an advertising agency said their professor called Quark (makers of QuarkXpress) asking for educational discounts for 30+ licenses and were told there was no discount. At the time the license cost was something like $1200 per seat. So they called Adobe and asked for educational discounts on InDesign, new at the time, and Adobe just gave them everything they wanted at no cost.
Worked in their favor too. When those kids hit the working world they only knew InDesign and their employers were forced to switch. We did. And never looked back.
"Then Adobe hit the market in 1999 with a program called InDesign (now used by Inc.). In 2003, Adobe launched its Creative Suite, which rolled in products such as Photoshop and Illustrator with InDesign. Quark couldn't come close. Its U.S. market share tumbled from 95 percent to just 25 percent ."
http://www.inc.com/magazine/20100401/can-quark-turn-the-corner.html
If you want to sell your product give it to the educators.
Lotus Domino (server) and Notes (client) are actually alive and well. This article is old, obviously, but you can see that Notes/Domino was slowly slipping until 2006 where it began to recover.
http://www.alanlepofsky.net/alepofsky/alanblog.nsf/dx/lotus-notesdomino-marketshare-is-growing
These two pages show that the Notes/Domino combo is actually even closer to Exchange today than it was five years ago.
http://dominoorexchange.pbworks.com/w/page/18061910/FrontPage
http://dominoorexchange.pbworks.com/w/page/18061909/Fortune-Global-500-(2007)
I was a Domino admin for 9 years, from 1999 to 2008, versions 4.5 to 8.0 I believe, with a single server instance. I am now an Exchange admin and have been for about 3 years, versions 2003, 2007, and 2010.
The whole time I was a Domino admin I wanted to convert to Exchange. Now that I am an Exchange admin I wouldn't mind deploying Domino. They both have peculiar issues. Domino has really weird wording in their config documents, but Exchange/Outlook have a really hard time with virus/trojan/malware issues.
It's a toss up. I really don't think you can go wrong with either one, so long as you know what you're doing with the one you've chosen.
Even though Mac OS and OS X both have extensive keyboard controls, neither is possible to use exclusively with a keyboard. I've found Windows to be the most keyboard friendly GUI OS. Which I think is kind of odd ...
Not that I condone the security measures currently in place .... but ....
It's been a long time since we've heard of an airplane disruption on a domestic flight... do we really need to up the specs on this technology?
I think you might have answered your own question, and the answer is "Yes". Without security measures buildings get blown up. With security measures buildings don't get blown up.
Working in IT I occasionally hear, "Well nothing is broken, I guess we can reduce the IT staff." As soon as they do, stuff starts breaking. Gee! Maybe it's because all that IT staff was keeping it unbroken!
So, yes, security is required in order to keep the shitheads from fucking up our air travel. The amount and type of security we're using is probably less necessary than we are lead to believe. Someone is seriously working the United States out of its money.
They state that they gained 150 MPG with GPS data.
"The GPS information made a big difference and added 150 mpg."
A more standard car likely wouldn't see the same >10% boost in economy, but I'm sure it would help. I'd love to see Toyota, Tesla, and other incorporate GPS data into their products' efficiency capabilities. It can only be a positive outcome for the car to use terrain information in calculating how and when to manipulate the drive train.
If you really want to get people to run virus scanners (without making the scanner a virus itself) you'll have to make it beneficial to the individual. Create some really fun game and buried in the EULA mention that the program does a virus sweep each time it launches.
Either that or fight fire with fire.
Actually there is no reference to the time frame in the text, but using the time in the lower left of the video it looks like the "event" lasted about 5 hours.
There are a couple I get to my gmail account. Some of the earlier ones I actually was able to reply to and ask them them to correct their contact list and have their intended contact send me a message so I could forward other mail for him. He's sent a few of my errant messages to me as well. We just have a single letter swapped in our addresses so it happens somewhat frequently - we even type or own addresses wrong sometimes.
So, I'd say, get in touch with the intended recipients. Together you can make a plan of action and make sure that everyone is more careful with their addresses.
Other than this goofy issue, I've had no problems using Gmail. It's a great service.
IDNRTA (I did not read the article), is this video in actual time or some kind of sped up? If it's actual speed then those flames were moving insanely fast. Regardless of that aspect, they travel a very far distance.
I was referring more to the HUGE controller than the features it provides. Yes they've done it before and it's a great idea. They need to do more of it. But the controller / handheld console / thing needs to be about half that size.
I think an intellectual is a person who asks questions and attempts to answer them. A knowledge seeker. They don't ask the same questions over and over - and they share their results openly.
The alt text for the image is "new nintendo wii e3 small". Yeah, there's nothing small about that control, people. This is probably the most anti-Nintendo thing I think I've ever seen Nintendo do.
So OS X will be moving into the market that IRIX and SunOS left behind?
I wonder if using a variety of masses would be beneficial in having quicker response times for varying current fluctuations.
Also, I've wondered about using flywheels in freight trains. It would seem a car or two with massive flywheels could be used on downhills to store energy while braking and uphills to add in a little kick. There would likely have paired flywheels to counter each other's rotation and keep from flipping the car off the track. But just doing some really basic math, if you were to add a single 80 ton 'flywheel car' to a train of 100 cars you'd only be adding 1% load. All you'd need to gain is >1% fuel saving for it to be beneficial, and 80 tons of flywheel could surely do that. Surely?
Well I don't think this is going to be the solution, but I'm glad government money is getting spent on positive science instead of just blowing things up. Now give me high speed rail and we'll be getting somewhere (pun not intended).
Yes, and in games produced by US citizens I can play as a terrorist where I can shoot hostages and SWAT officers.
Though, I do have a somewhat difficult time referring to software that mimics the and glorifies the act of killing humans as a game. It's just easier than coming up with a new term, and it's not quite a simulator.
Yes! It's true! And once they have everyone's IP address documented they're going to ... !! They'll be able to ... !!
What exactly is it they're going to do with our IP addresses?
Well that's cool. Now could someone find a beverage that reduces the risk of leukemia? :(