WD has a true NAS system on the market called the My Book Pro. it comes with two drives, they are standard WD drives so they can be replaced easily. the raid configuration allows you to mirror the two drives or combine them into one partition. web based administration of the raid etc, etc. the biggest one they have is 2tb (2 1tb drives) so mirror those and bang, done. i saw a guy selling them on ebay for $580 last week
the serious issue is we have a whole generation of people out there that believe the word "research" ends with google. and as long as people get lazier and lazier beliving that computers will tell them everything there is to know about a subject without getting off their asses and leaving their bedrooms or offices, wikipedia will be inaccurate and more harmeful than good.
poeple over the last 10 years have lost their basic research skills, and with everything that seems to be in the future, its more of a trend than a fad.
my major issue is all of the news organizations you mention have major layers of oversite.
take Dan Rather. was he accurate 100% of the time over nearly 30 years, absolutely not. he simply jumped too quick at a juicy story at a great point in time and it cost him his career. it was as simple as that. i don't belive any of the stories that he made it up or that he would jeapordize his standing in his community just to take a shot at the president.
now, because he made that mistake, if he made a wiki edit that concerned the mentality of people during watergate would you really question it? he was there, he knew, he was in the press rooms,
better question yet, you know my opinion, i am free to edit dan's wiki profile as i like ( i believe ), what oversite is there to filter out my opinion from fact.
since when is an encyclopedia full of opinions, its supposed to be full of facts. who makes sure that is true?
i was the director of testing for a company for a long time. the formula i figured out was take the amount of time it took you to write it, triple it, and thats how long it will take you to adequatly test it. that worked until i stopped a release because i wouldn't sign off on it.
when i finally left, their system of testing was also called, SHIPPING.
and you think this i fun? have no fear, your still young.
US Currency is printed with magnetic ink. if you look at the picture, the left eye is one of the highest concentrations of ink on the note. you stack a grand of 20's together and put them in the nuker, i can see a spark arcing across the ink. A stack of bills that big could also duplicate the reaction of those mag tags that they use for the security systems.
sony makes a GREAT 200 disk DVD jukebox. you can get them on ebay starting at about $130 used. buy 5 of them and save yourself TONS of time and money over trying to put these on a terabyte array.
The company i worked for folded about a year and a half ago. The job market in Pittsburgh was dismal at best for a windows web app developer. i was a lucky one and was given about 3 months notice from one of the owners that we were going to be closing "suddenly" and i should start looking. after sending out about 250 resumes, i got 5 calls and 1 interview. my problem (accourding to a head hunter) was that i was overqualified. so, 3 weeks after being married with a new step-child and cleaning my desk, i did what anyone would do, i copied the client contact list before i turned off my PC (being the admin has its advantages). i called a few of the clients and within a few days i was in business on my own. that was a year and a half ago and things have been definatly up and down. i have learned that you can only milk a customer for so much money before the well dries up and there is nothing more humbling than spending 5 hours a day looking for 1 hour of work.
my daily routine is now get up, travel around meeting with people, calling people, writing proposals, and responding to questions from potential clients until about 4. then i come home and start coding. i code until about 11:00. thats when i stop to watch the news. while im watching the news, i hit ITMoonlighter.com and try to drum up more work. its a tough living but its a living. i make nothing like the money i did with a real job because my market is so saturated with people doing the same thing. how can i possibly compete on a development project where a fully qualified student at Pitt U is bidding on the same thing project and looking for nothing more than beer money.
my only saving grace has been my wife and i live cheap. i have good months and bad months. and sometimes, really bad months. i have yet to have a really good month but thats the lifestyle.
My summary, if you take on something like i have, it is definatly a lifestyle, not a living.
no, the idea would be get hacked, fix the hack and have the system remember it and fix the hole by itself. that would be my ultimate. then have some kind of repository or some kind of knowledge base where it can learn from other systems. damn, that would be the ultimate. imagine your system knowing about a worm and taking care of the hole 3 hours before your alarm clock goes off.
respectfully disagree. yes, tolerant to the fact that there is always someone better than you i agree with. but these kinds of systems are not the ones that can take care of themselves while you finish your vacation in Hawaii so you can deal with it while you get back. These are the systems that can keep going while you are racing from dinner with your family back to the office to solve the problem.
In 90% of the cases, pulling the plug is the best thing to do. but take EBay for example, 1.2 billion in revenue relying entirely on their systems. That means they earned $2,289.38 every minute. So in that perspective, could you really tell someone to just simply shut off the site while you drive back to the office to fix it?
I personally have gotten sick of arguing with people asking them what they are going to do WHEN they get attacked. i lost count of how many admins i have delt with that thought just because they have a firewall and a BSD distribution, noone is going to get in.
bout time the question was change from "how are you going to keep them out" to "what are you going to do when they get in"
Just as long as you don't have customers coming in and out of your house, pay your taxes and you will be fine. you will find that most of those laws were designed so you don't turn your driveway and front yard into a parking lot.
I used to work for the PTO back in the day. The head honchos in the PTO (back then) didn't want any tax money. They wanted the same designation that the post office has, a Federal Corporation. Back then (1995) the honchos looked at the books and realized that if they really wanted too, they could be self sufficent in what they do. I would bet that position changed in the glory days of the Dot-Gone era when they got slammed with more patents then they had ever seen before, but the idea was real and they were activly moving in that direction.
company calls back an engineer to fix a machine after the engineer retires, engineer looks at the machine, then looks at the blueprints, takes a piece of chalk and cirles a part "replace this." few weeks latter the company gets an itemized bill from the retired engineer
As i understand it, all copy protection that can be read on a standard cd player is weak to begin with. cdroms can read multiple indexes, cd players can only read the first one. but cdroms read the indexes starting from the last and working its way to the first. so most copy protections corrupt the second index so the cdrom will fail. a simple firmware upgrade to the cdrom can fix that and make it read the first index first and move down the list. Interesting article here
I was talking to a chemistry teacher in college a few years back and he told me something pretty funny about hydrogen burning stuff. ONE, when you burn hydrogen in a pure oxygen environment, you get water. we don't live in a pure oxygen environment, our air is 80% nitrogen. when you burn that, you get some kind of greenhouse gas, i forget what it was. But this is a fuel cell car so that wouldn't make a difference, just putting it out.
The second point he made was where the hydrogen comes from. hydrogen floating free is very rare. it has to be refined. when NASA sends a shuttle in space, it has thousands of gallons of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. And what does NASA use to refine this liquid hydrogen? He said they refine it from gasoline and other petrolium by-products. The number i remember him shooting off was something like 15 or 16 gallons of gasoline to make 1 gallon of liquid Hydrogen.
Just something to keep in the back of the brain pan.
I worked for a company that tried the sell once repair forever technique. By the time i quit, i had a dos machine running a dos version of borland C, a winnt 3.51 machine running studio 4, an NT 4.0 machine running studio 5, and was told we were migrating the product to studio 6 on 2000. i averaged 2 days to fix a bug. they went belly up about a year ago.
it is starting to look like MS will have to break it apart. but, just because they have to distribute a version without all this stuff, what is to stop them from having another folder on the CD with all the middleware in it. i can see the message now "you can not view your help files unless you have internet explorer installed. insert your install cd and click next to install it." does anyone remember the !Plus pack?
peoples fear of being subpoena baffles me. now i can't say ive been a perfect angel in the eyes of the law, but damnit if i get caught, im caught.
now, i realize that my situation was different because it was a corporation and not an ISP, but in our case, i know for a fact that the logs would have proved us inocent. a very big part of the reason the other party filed the lawsuit was because they knew we didn't have those logs to prove our case.
in my view, the people that are afraid of the law and afraid of the litigation are the ones that need to be watched because they are the ones with something to hide.
the problem with this is an ISP is not a priest or doctor. it is a business. a business with the intention of making money and covering its ass. it should log and keep the information that it needs to do so.
well, i don't know about ISP's, but i have come under fire for this issue before. i ran the network at a medium size company for several years. i was one of those administrators that logged enouph information to run a few volume reports from and when the HD was full on the logging machine, i deleted all of them. then out of the blue we get a sexual harassment suit against us from a fellow employee. at this point i was forced to sit at a deposition and explain the reasons i didn't keep an archive of our logs. it was a 5 hour experiance that can only be described as less plesant than a tax audit. because we didn't have the logs, we lost the case, and i got fired. that entire experiance has re-written my position on logging and privacy in the corporate world. now my position is very easy, log EVERYTHING and keep it FOREVER. i can say that as long as i am responsible for information systems for any company, i will have a complete history of what has transpired on my network. now i have everything logging to a file server, at the end of the month, i run my reports and burn all the files to CD that then get put in a save deposit box in a bank down the street. (yes, that does include email messages and attachements that go through our email servers) i copy everything. i WILL NOT be put in the situation that i was in before. i also convinced the upper management to ammend the employeement contract to state specifically in plain language that we do this. we have gotten heavy resistance to this, but our offical response is "if you don't like it, there is more than one technology company in this city." now thats corporate america, but i don't see why ISP's should be any different. the way i see it, the only difference is the sheer volume of data to be archived. take from it what you paid for it.
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WD has a true NAS system on the market called the My Book Pro. it comes with two drives, they are standard WD drives so they can be replaced easily. the raid configuration allows you to mirror the two drives or combine them into one partition. web based administration of the raid etc, etc. the biggest one they have is 2tb (2 1tb drives) so mirror those and bang, done. i saw a guy selling them on ebay for $580 last week
the serious issue is we have a whole generation of people out there that believe the word "research" ends with google. and as long as people get lazier and lazier beliving that computers will tell them everything there is to know about a subject without getting off their asses and leaving their bedrooms or offices, wikipedia will be inaccurate and more harmeful than good.
poeple over the last 10 years have lost their basic research skills, and with everything that seems to be in the future, its more of a trend than a fad.
thats pretty sad.
my major issue is all of the news organizations you mention have major layers of oversite.
take Dan Rather. was he accurate 100% of the time over nearly 30 years, absolutely not. he simply jumped too quick at a juicy story at a great point in time and it cost him his career. it was as simple as that. i don't belive any of the stories that he made it up or that he would jeapordize his standing in his community just to take a shot at the president.
now, because he made that mistake, if he made a wiki edit that concerned the mentality of people during watergate would you really question it? he was there, he knew, he was in the press rooms,
better question yet, you know my opinion, i am free to edit dan's wiki profile as i like ( i believe ), what oversite is there to filter out my opinion from fact.
since when is an encyclopedia full of opinions, its supposed to be full of facts. who makes sure that is true?
i was the director of testing for a company for a long time. the formula i figured out was take the amount of time it took you to write it, triple it, and thats how long it will take you to adequatly test it. that worked until i stopped a release because i wouldn't sign off on it.
when i finally left, their system of testing was also called, SHIPPING.
and you think this i fun? have no fear, your still young.
NOT A LIFE.
US Currency is printed with magnetic ink. if you look at the picture, the left eye is one of the highest concentrations of ink on the note. you stack a grand of 20's together and put them in the nuker, i can see a spark arcing across the ink. A stack of bills that big could also duplicate the reaction of those mag tags that they use for the security systems.
sony makes a GREAT 200 disk DVD jukebox. you can get them on ebay starting at about $130 used. buy 5 of them and save yourself TONS of time and money over trying to put these on a terabyte array.
The company i worked for folded about a year and a half ago. The job market in Pittsburgh was dismal at best for a windows web app developer. i was a lucky one and was given about 3 months notice from one of the owners that we were going to be closing "suddenly" and i should start looking. after sending out about 250 resumes, i got 5 calls and 1 interview. my problem (accourding to a head hunter) was that i was overqualified. so, 3 weeks after being married with a new step-child and cleaning my desk, i did what anyone would do, i copied the client contact list before i turned off my PC (being the admin has its advantages). i called a few of the clients and within a few days i was in business on my own. that was a year and a half ago and things have been definatly up and down. i have learned that you can only milk a customer for so much money before the well dries up and there is nothing more humbling than spending 5 hours a day looking for 1 hour of work.
my daily routine is now get up, travel around meeting with people, calling people, writing proposals, and responding to questions from potential clients until about 4. then i come home and start coding. i code until about 11:00. thats when i stop to watch the news. while im watching the news, i hit ITMoonlighter.com and try to drum up more work. its a tough living but its a living. i make nothing like the money i did with a real job because my market is so saturated with people doing the same thing. how can i possibly compete on a development project where a fully qualified student at Pitt U is bidding on the same thing project and looking for nothing more than beer money.
my only saving grace has been my wife and i live cheap. i have good months and bad months. and sometimes, really bad months. i have yet to have a really good month but thats the lifestyle.
My summary, if you take on something like i have, it is definatly a lifestyle, not a living.
your argument is valid, if you don't own the company like i do. =-)
no, the idea would be get hacked, fix the hack and have the system remember it and fix the hole by itself. that would be my ultimate. then have some kind of repository or some kind of knowledge base where it can learn from other systems. damn, that would be the ultimate. imagine your system knowing about a worm and taking care of the hole 3 hours before your alarm clock goes off.
THAT would be a system i want.
maybe its because noone bothered trying =-)
this coming from someone that has been begging his boss for a mac laptop for 2 months. mini-me sold it, i want one.
respectfully disagree. yes, tolerant to the fact that there is always someone better than you i agree with. but these kinds of systems are not the ones that can take care of themselves while you finish your vacation in Hawaii so you can deal with it while you get back. These are the systems that can keep going while you are racing from dinner with your family back to the office to solve the problem.
In 90% of the cases, pulling the plug is the best thing to do. but take EBay for example, 1.2 billion in revenue relying entirely on their systems. That means they earned $2,289.38 every minute. So in that perspective, could you really tell someone to just simply shut off the site while you drive back to the office to fix it?
bout time the question was change from "how are you going to keep them out" to "what are you going to do when they get in"
Just as long as you don't have customers coming in and out of your house, pay your taxes and you will be fine. you will find that most of those laws were designed so you don't turn your driveway and front yard into a parking lot.
I used to work for the PTO back in the day. The head honchos in the PTO (back then) didn't want any tax money. They wanted the same designation that the post office has, a Federal Corporation. Back then (1995) the honchos looked at the books and realized that if they really wanted too, they could be self sufficent in what they do. I would bet that position changed in the glory days of the Dot-Gone era when they got slammed with more patents then they had ever seen before, but the idea was real and they were activly moving in that direction.
Im sorry, I must not have gotten that memo.
company calls back an engineer to fix a machine after the engineer retires, engineer looks at the machine, then looks at the blueprints, takes a piece of chalk and cirles a part "replace this." few weeks latter the company gets an itemized bill from the retired engineer
1 chalk mark - $1.00
knowing where to put it - $49,999
bill the bastards
As i understand it, all copy protection that can be read on a standard cd player is weak to begin with. cdroms can read multiple indexes, cd players can only read the first one. but cdroms read the indexes starting from the last and working its way to the first. so most copy protections corrupt the second index so the cdrom will fail. a simple firmware upgrade to the cdrom can fix that and make it read the first index first and move down the list. Interesting article here
I was talking to a chemistry teacher in college a few years back and he told me something pretty funny about hydrogen burning stuff. ONE, when you burn hydrogen in a pure oxygen environment, you get water. we don't live in a pure oxygen environment, our air is 80% nitrogen. when you burn that, you get some kind of greenhouse gas, i forget what it was. But this is a fuel cell car so that wouldn't make a difference, just putting it out.
The second point he made was where the hydrogen comes from. hydrogen floating free is very rare. it has to be refined. when NASA sends a shuttle in space, it has thousands of gallons of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. And what does NASA use to refine this liquid hydrogen? He said they refine it from gasoline and other petrolium by-products. The number i remember him shooting off was something like 15 or 16 gallons of gasoline to make 1 gallon of liquid Hydrogen.
Just something to keep in the back of the brain pan.
I worked for a company that tried the sell once repair forever technique. By the time i quit, i had a dos machine running a dos version of borland C, a winnt 3.51 machine running studio 4, an NT 4.0 machine running studio 5, and was told we were migrating the product to studio 6 on 2000. i averaged 2 days to fix a bug. they went belly up about a year ago.
it is starting to look like MS will have to break it apart. but, just because they have to distribute a version without all this stuff, what is to stop them from having another folder on the CD with all the middleware in it. i can see the message now "you can not view your help files unless you have internet explorer installed. insert your install cd and click next to install it." does anyone remember the !Plus pack?
when i worked for visa interactive, all the servers were named after beer. it was kinda cool going "im going to work on guiness today"
now, i realize that my situation was different because it was a corporation and not an ISP, but in our case, i know for a fact that the logs would have proved us inocent. a very big part of the reason the other party filed the lawsuit was because they knew we didn't have those logs to prove our case.
in my view, the people that are afraid of the law and afraid of the litigation are the ones that need to be watched because they are the ones with something to hide.
the problem with this is an ISP is not a priest or doctor. it is a business. a business with the intention of making money and covering its ass. it should log and keep the information that it needs to do so.
well, i don't know about ISP's, but i have come under fire for this issue before. i ran the network at a medium size company for several years. i was one of those administrators that logged enouph information to run a few volume reports from and when the HD was full on the logging machine, i deleted all of them. then out of the blue we get a sexual harassment suit against us from a fellow employee. at this point i was forced to sit at a deposition and explain the reasons i didn't keep an archive of our logs. it was a 5 hour experiance that can only be described as less plesant than a tax audit. because we didn't have the logs, we lost the case, and i got fired. that entire experiance has re-written my position on logging and privacy in the corporate world. now my position is very easy, log EVERYTHING and keep it FOREVER. i can say that as long as i am responsible for information systems for any company, i will have a complete history of what has transpired on my network. now i have everything logging to a file server, at the end of the month, i run my reports and burn all the files to CD that then get put in a save deposit box in a bank down the street. (yes, that does include email messages and attachements that go through our email servers) i copy everything. i WILL NOT be put in the situation that i was in before. i also convinced the upper management to ammend the employeement contract to state specifically in plain language that we do this. we have gotten heavy resistance to this, but our offical response is "if you don't like it, there is more than one technology company in this city." now thats corporate america, but i don't see why ISP's should be any different. the way i see it, the only difference is the sheer volume of data to be archived. take from it what you paid for it.