If Amazon is already doing this Washington State, then the hard part is over, since the tax districts in Washing State follow the Elementary School Districts as part of the boundaries.
Personally, the USPS (or even FedEx and UPS) should step up and be the "tax experts". Since they validate the address (hence GIS) they can determine the correct rate from the over 160k districts in US.
GIS is important since a given address maybe on City, County, State, Federal land and different rates apply.
I did this software for a large bug company. Had to get the correct rate for almost 10 million addresses, since the "cash register" is at the service location. It is not hard, but once a month we had a service supply us new tables.
Access Control - using VLANs and "firewalls" can be broken with errors Business Continuity - system is unavailable for *any* work Damage - system needing to be reload to return to working status w/ loss of intermediate work. Notification - Is there some thing that maybe wrong Missed Posting - due to todays separated servers one being "down" could cause *lost* postings and revenue.
That is just a short list. SOX opens a whole array issues, Best to let the SOX team to worry.
1) You should not be making any direct changes to the network with out correct design, test and sign off.
2) You should already have a redundant network structure, so "half" can be loss without any loss to network operations. This way the change can be tested in parallel.
3) You should always report to SOX officer when a request outside correct operations and management is made. It makes it their responsibility to solve the legal issues, for not following their written standards, before you began.
The Wiki article would translate to what you said. But there is another view that needs to be thought about. That is "how it is connected?".
ROM and RAM are normally connected directly to address and data buses of CPU and thought today more as memory. The disk are normally connected though an interface (some times another computer/controller) and thought as storage. This all about the PHYSICAL connection. It is also why other connections to "disks" can be created like RAM disks, iSCSI and tape-drive-disks.
I work on a machine that OS "looks" to machine via LOGICAL view. So the disk is just one large slow virtual memory space and the RAM is just faster / closer cache of that virtual space, and cache is faster still and closer. Makes nice to add new drives since it just one big flat model. It even makes journals easy since you can have it stripe the journals over 100 drives with single option. My "current" machine is 32 processors, 640GB of memory, and 900+ disks in RAID5 clusters for 35TB of storage.
This has been common place on IBM equipment for years.
That last machine had batteries on each of i/o controllers (RAID) with dual memory cards so that card system can take a "hit" and even half the i/o controller could go, and you can still change the I/O controller and KEEP the data in transaction.
The cabinet itself had dual power supplies with batteries, each board used dual power from dual supplies. The cabinet took two 30A 480V 3-phase feeds, and supplied 400V DC to the boards, which then dropped the power down need rates.
Italy had 3 VAT taxes that the rate was 0.0%. They could not be mixed and had to reported each month to the state and displayed on the bill.
Europe also has tax on tax rules. One tax has a sub class of tax, because the base charge was not an option to customer.
Lastly, taking the Bar example. Vienna had three different VAT rates for milk. If you had a restaurant and bar together...
If you drank the milk in restaurant, it was at one rate. (drink with food)
If you drank the milk in bar area (next table over), it was another rate. (bar drink)
If you pored it on you breakfast ceral, it was a third rate. (food) And all would have to be shown on the bill.
But the other-side, VAT is VAT once you get it setup, you list amount of tax you paid for the items, and you paid, you send in the difference.
There are over 160,000 different sales tax rates in the US. Then there are exceptions like to a maximum item value of $2000 in Memphis or which item is charged which tax.
Also the tax rates are normally aligned with boundaries that postal code, city name or county do not follow, so just checking what mailing address does not help. In Washington State the tax rate follow elementary school boundaries for MTA additional amounts.
There are exception areas that like county land inside of incorporated city boarders. Arkansas has alot of towns like this one block in the center of town has a different rate.
Lastly, there is Texas that bases the tax based on location of the business.
All of this do able - I did it for nationwide service company (kill bugs). Personally, I would place the tax calculation as part of shipping requirement and look to Fedex and UPS to supply the tax rate to use.
Why does the content owner have to block Google? Google has to ask permission to index books, why not webpages?
This is the edge that missing in the conversation.
robots.txt does not block Google or anyone else, it just a form of a "site use contract" that had come into play help manage the relationship between two computers. Reading it still consumes resources (yes very little), why should the contain owner pay for something he does not want to happen in the first place?
Yes, there is more here, like he really would like a cut of Goggles pie. But the question of "Why must I pay to prevent you from using what is mine?", will also need to answered.
IT was data room not a data center and it was 25yrs ago...
On the third floor was data room with computer and phone switch next too the main A/C flume going from basement to 20flr (walking closet without floor or ceiling. The external auditors came though and wrote up the location that there was no raised floor in case of flooding.
Site's response: HA HA HA - Flood - 3rd floor?
Next week the water main at the 5th floor brpke and came down the A/C flume and flooded the third floor in 2 feet of water!
It runs better than 9.04 on this machine that I am using. This is a K6-3D/400 with 256M and 10G drive. It was upgraded from 7.04 - 16 hours per release.
Issues since 9.10...
Failure during boot get Xwindows/gnome to start. On new log on screen is now a choice of gnome and safe gnome. Just change to the other one and boots OK.
During first boot Netscape kept kicking errors about xorg. Those when a way on second full boot.
Do not like new update apt just showing up with a click. Liked better the icon in tool bar.
I too have old hardware: 486sx16 with 12MB and 275MB drive, 2 ISA 10baseT - use for testing of IPCop.org linux firewall. Works great.
K6-3D 400 with 256mb and 10G drive - Had to get Ubuntu 7.04 because new versions would not find IDE drvies correctly and had problems with ACPI (or lack of). Then upgrade upgrade upgrade not to 9.04. Took awhile. It is what I am writing on now.
My next projects are Dual PPro 200 with 256MB and 2 2G drives. It was running Linux before with NT3.51 in a VMWare session, but that been a few years. 2 SMALL form P6-500 with 256MB and 10GB.
I also run Core 2 QUAD with 8GB and 256G and 1TB with VMWare 5 sessions. So I do not just have old hardware.
I am finding Linux has loss some of its roots for being able to bring more work out of older equipment. But it does not stop us from trying, does it. Good luck with your project.
Also remember the Async ports on these old machines and be connected to another machine and used for network loading too.;-) Just takes longer be works very well.
Wave your hands in the air and talk theory does not make it true.
DEFRAG the drive works. Cleans up empty space to single area. Use a smart defrag tool, I like IO BIT SMART DEFRAG. Only moves "broken" files when system is low usage. Also has full on "clean it" out.
ACER NETBOOK with 8G SSD. Slow during intial setup - 8hrs from out of the box to "useable" (all Patches loaded, Firefox loaded, Open Office loaded). Worst than using disk based systems. Exceeded 2mins just booting.
Slow removing extra software shipped from factory - almost 4hrs doing that, and another 1hr deleting hidden directories in WINDOWS directory that are left behind by patching. Still Exceeded 2mins just booting.
DEFRAG drive - ran almost 5hrs, use PAGE DEFRAG to clean up system files - one hive was in excess of 20 fragments. Booting drops to 1min.
Now added FLASHFIRE to setup 64M cache, Dropped boot time 20 seconds, including the time for PAGE DEFRAG to check system files and determine nothing to be done.
Real world versus theory!
Oh, I had to do this twice! Once for each machine.
DEFRAG does work! Improves start of windows time, improves Firefox and Open Office time. I use IO BIT SMART DEFRAG to do this in the background in real time. This alone brought the machines back into original start times after on month of use.
Then added PAGE DEFRAG to defrag system stuff during boot, another improvement.
Lastly added FLASHFIRE to setup 64M buffer in memory to minimize all writes, now the run better that disk based machine.
Don't believe the hype. These systems need to "cleaned" like every other.
The defrag of system files via PAGE DEFRAG, generally finds nothing to defrag, but after a PTF from Microsoft or software load, then all is fixed.
Smart Defrag pulls fragments together leaving the fragments together more large spaces overall.
Lastly the ACER netbooks that my kids have are 8G SSD. There is not a lot of space left after all the stuff that is loaded by ACER. After removing that stuff lots of wholes are left and filled with other stuff. By defragging this help push the stuff together leaving a biggest single space for faster writes of new stuff. The FFire makes those writes better by blocking up to 64M chunks and laying that down once.
Yes there is more "wear", but I got the speed back, period. There are not too longer sluggish, taking a minute or more to open Firefox or Open Office. This is simulaur to what you need to do to windows on a normal machine to improve performance.
I have found for my kids ACER Netbooks with XP HOME that Flashfire "fixes" the slow down. http://flashfire.org/ Was night and day during start up alone. Improved Firefox even after cutting most of it cache storage,
Not that easy. Been trying for a while. Abode release new version on July 30th. Still waiting for it to filter down. Their own website when to google in for x64 takes to a page that then tells you to use download center that does not have option x64 version, just x32.
Now if you have a google page/request that shows the good link, then you would be right. Maybe share it, so we can all learn to use google.
Just send return ships/fuel/supplies ahead, maybe even place a few at way points. This way resupply is available and help insure safety.
Say two ships taking people there. Each can hold the all crew, but only 1/2 in each. Meet a way point and refuel, top off O2 tanks,... Maybe even an extra booster or two. Reach Mars, again fuel, new 02, return booster. Also have landing ships there. again 2. Then go down. Come up and return. Again meet way point and refuel and pickup supplies.
This way less would have to travel with the main ships, backups are available.
It does not seam to hard to meet the Judge's request/order...
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Just remove options 2-4. It seams that all of Dell's machines can be shipped with Office/Word.
Not only that, I am still analog on TV scene. Comcast is removing channels that are NTSC, to digital encrypted, but still calling it EB. Blaming the station for change. We just lost MSNBC.
Top it off, they are still showing in the NTSC listing that MSNBC is there at channel 81. But it is now digital and encrypted.
Slashdot Mirror
Burden??? What Burden???
It is database issue with GIS lookup.
If Amazon is already doing this Washington State, then the hard part is over, since the tax districts in Washing State follow the Elementary School Districts as part of the boundaries.
Personally, the USPS (or even FedEx and UPS) should step up and be the "tax experts". Since they validate the address (hence GIS) they can determine the correct rate from the over 160k districts in US.
GIS is important since a given address maybe on City, County, State, Federal land and different rates apply.
I did this software for a large bug company. Had to get the correct rate for almost 10 million addresses, since the "cash register" is at the service location. It is not hard, but once a month we had a service supply us new tables.
Access Control - using VLANs and "firewalls" can be broken with errors
Business Continuity - system is unavailable for *any* work
Damage - system needing to be reload to return to working status w/ loss of intermediate work.
Notification - Is there some thing that maybe wrong
Missed Posting - due to todays separated servers one being "down" could cause *lost* postings and revenue.
That is just a short list. SOX opens a whole array issues, Best to let the SOX team to worry.
The network is now the system!
1) You should not be making any direct changes to the network with out correct design, test and sign off.
2) You should already have a redundant network structure, so "half" can be loss without any loss to network operations. This way the change can be tested in parallel.
3) You should always report to SOX officer when a request outside correct operations and management is made. It makes it their responsibility to solve the legal issues, for not following their written standards, before you began.
The Wiki article would translate to what you said. But there is another view that needs to be thought about. That is "how it is connected?".
ROM and RAM are normally connected directly to address and data buses of CPU and thought today more as memory. The disk are normally connected though an interface (some times another computer/controller) and thought as storage. This all about the PHYSICAL connection. It is also why other connections to "disks" can be created like RAM disks, iSCSI and tape-drive-disks.
I work on a machine that OS "looks" to machine via LOGICAL view. So the disk is just one large slow virtual memory space and the RAM is just faster / closer cache of that virtual space, and cache is faster still and closer. Makes nice to add new drives since it just one big flat model. It even makes journals easy since you can have it stripe the journals over 100 drives with single option. My "current" machine is 32 processors, 640GB of memory, and 900+ disks in RAID5 clusters for 35TB of storage.
This has been common place on IBM equipment for years.
That last machine had batteries on each of i/o controllers (RAID) with dual memory cards so that card system can take a "hit" and even half the i/o controller could go, and you can still change the I/O controller and KEEP the data in transaction.
The cabinet itself had dual power supplies with batteries, each board used dual power from dual supplies. The cabinet took two 30A 480V 3-phase feeds, and supplied 400V DC to the boards, which then dropped the power down need rates.
Europe is not the easiest...
Italy had 3 VAT taxes that the rate was 0.0%. They could not be mixed and had to reported each month to the state and displayed on the bill.
Europe also has tax on tax rules. One tax has a sub class of tax, because the base charge was not an option to customer.
Lastly, taking the Bar example. Vienna had three different VAT rates for milk. If you had a restaurant and bar together...
If you drank the milk in restaurant, it was at one rate. (drink with food)
If you drank the milk in bar area (next table over), it was another rate. (bar drink)
If you pored it on you breakfast ceral, it was a third rate. (food)
And all would have to be shown on the bill.
But the other-side, VAT is VAT once you get it setup, you list amount of tax you paid for the items, and you paid, you send in the difference.
There are over 160,000 different sales tax rates in the US. Then there are exceptions like to a maximum item value of $2000 in Memphis or which item is charged which tax.
Also the tax rates are normally aligned with boundaries that postal code, city name or county do not follow, so just checking what mailing address does not help. In Washington State the tax rate follow elementary school boundaries for MTA additional amounts.
There are exception areas that like county land inside of incorporated city boarders. Arkansas has alot of towns like this one block in the center of town has a different rate.
Lastly, there is Texas that bases the tax based on location of the business.
All of this do able - I did it for nationwide service company (kill bugs). Personally, I would place the tax calculation as part of shipping requirement and look to Fedex and UPS to supply the tax rate to use.
You are missing his point...
Why does the content owner have to block Google? Google has to ask permission to index books, why not webpages?
This is the edge that missing in the conversation.
robots.txt does not block Google or anyone else, it just a form of a "site use contract" that had come into play help manage the relationship between two computers. Reading it still consumes resources (yes very little), why should the contain owner pay for something he does not want to happen in the first place?
Yes, there is more here, like he really would like a cut of Goggles pie. But the question of "Why must I pay to prevent you from using what is mine?", will also need to answered.
IT was data room not a data center and it was 25yrs ago...
On the third floor was data room with computer and phone switch next too the main A/C flume going from basement to 20flr (walking closet without floor or ceiling. The external auditors came though and wrote up the location that there was no raised floor in case of flooding.
Site's response: HA HA HA - Flood - 3rd floor?
Next week the water main at the 5th floor brpke and came down the A/C flume and flooded the third floor in 2 feet of water!
Opps
It runs better than 9.04 on this machine that I am using. This is a K6-3D/400 with 256M and 10G drive. It was upgraded from 7.04 - 16 hours per release.
Issues since 9.10...
Failure during boot get Xwindows/gnome to start. On new log on screen is now a choice of gnome and safe gnome. Just change to the other one and boots OK.
During first boot Netscape kept kicking errors about xorg. Those when a way on second full boot.
Do not like new update apt just showing up with a click. Liked better the icon in tool bar.
Now, that was funny!
I too have old hardware:
486sx16 with 12MB and 275MB drive, 2 ISA 10baseT - use for testing of IPCop.org linux firewall. Works great.
K6-3D 400 with 256mb and 10G drive - Had to get Ubuntu 7.04 because new versions would not find IDE drvies correctly and had problems with ACPI (or lack of). Then upgrade upgrade upgrade not to 9.04. Took awhile. It is what I am writing on now.
My next projects are Dual PPro 200 with 256MB and 2 2G drives. It was running Linux before with NT3.51 in a VMWare session, but that been a few years. 2 SMALL form P6-500 with 256MB and 10GB.
I also run Core 2 QUAD with 8GB and 256G and 1TB with VMWare 5 sessions. So I do not just have old hardware.
I am finding Linux has loss some of its roots for being able to bring more work out of older equipment. But it does not stop us from trying, does it. Good luck with your project.
I used an old redhat diskette a few months ago to netload from their servers, was fun and slow but did work. Other information for doing these types of installs.
http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst
http://marc.herbert.free.fr/linux/win2linstall.html -helpful.
Also remember the Async ports on these old machines and be connected to another machine and used for network loading too. ;-) Just takes longer be works very well.
Thank you
Wave your hands in the air and talk theory does not make it true.
DEFRAG the drive works. Cleans up empty space to single area. Use a smart defrag tool, I like IO BIT SMART DEFRAG. Only moves "broken" files when system is low usage. Also has full on "clean it" out.
ACER NETBOOK with 8G SSD.
Slow during intial setup - 8hrs from out of the box to "useable" (all Patches loaded, Firefox loaded, Open Office loaded). Worst than using disk based systems.
Exceeded 2mins just booting.
Slow removing extra software shipped from factory - almost 4hrs doing that, and another 1hr deleting hidden directories in WINDOWS directory that are left behind by patching.
Still Exceeded 2mins just booting.
DEFRAG drive - ran almost 5hrs, use PAGE DEFRAG to clean up system files - one hive was in excess of 20 fragments.
Booting drops to 1min.
Now added FLASHFIRE to setup 64M cache, Dropped boot time 20 seconds, including the time for PAGE DEFRAG to check system files and determine nothing to be done.
Real world versus theory!
Oh, I had to do this twice! Once for each machine.
If 2 ACER NETBOOKS with 8G SSD and windows.
DEFRAG does work! Improves start of windows time, improves Firefox and Open Office time. I use IO BIT SMART DEFRAG to do this in the background in real time. This alone brought the machines back into original start times after on month of use.
Then added PAGE DEFRAG to defrag system stuff during boot, another improvement.
Lastly added FLASHFIRE to setup 64M buffer in memory to minimize all writes, now the run better that disk based machine.
Don't believe the hype. These systems need to "cleaned" like every other.
It does not in the end.
The defrag of system files via PAGE DEFRAG, generally finds nothing to defrag, but after a PTF from Microsoft or software load, then all is fixed.
Smart Defrag pulls fragments together leaving the fragments together more large spaces overall.
Lastly the ACER netbooks that my kids have are 8G SSD. There is not a lot of space left after all the stuff that is loaded by ACER. After removing that stuff lots of wholes are left and filled with other stuff. By defragging this help push the stuff together leaving a biggest single space for faster writes of new stuff. The FFire makes those writes better by blocking up to 64M chunks and laying that down once.
Yes there is more "wear", but I got the speed back, period. There are not too longer sluggish, taking a minute or more to open Firefox or Open Office. This is simulaur to what you need to do to windows on a normal machine to improve performance.
Theory is one thing, actual results are another.
I have found for my kids ACER Netbooks with XP HOME that Flashfire "fixes" the slow down. http://flashfire.org/
Was night and day during start up alone. Improved Firefox even after cutting most of it cache storage,
Also found running defrags helped a lot. Using both IO BIT Smartdefrag http://www.iobit.com/iobitsmartdefrag.html and Page Defrag http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897426.aspx
So the change was downgraded to 18% chance that the original value of 0.0022% was right.
Thank you - one step closer. Found file and instructions for Ubuntu 9.04, but does not seam to work 8.04.
Will keep trying.
Not that easy. Been trying for a while. Abode release new version on July 30th. Still waiting for it to filter down. Their own website when to google in for x64 takes to a page that then tells you to use download center that does not have option x64 version, just x32.
Now if you have a google page/request that shows the good link, then you would be right. Maybe share it, so we can all learn to use google.
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Does not update a x64 based linux OS nor can I find one on download sites.
Suggestions?
It was pointed out to me, that most women are smarter than their spouses. This study just proves that long lasting affect is normal.
The person that pointed this out to me is my wife. 10+ points higher than me.
Just send return ships/fuel/supplies ahead, maybe even place a few at way points. This way resupply is available and help insure safety.
Say two ships taking people there. Each can hold the all crew, but only 1/2 in each. Meet a way point and refuel, top off O2 tanks, ... Maybe even an extra booster or two. Reach Mars, again fuel, new 02, return booster. Also have landing ships there. again 2. Then go down. Come up and return. Again meet way point and refuel and pickup supplies.
This way less would have to travel with the main ships, backups are available.
It does not seam to hard to meet the Judge's request/order...
To help you build your business in today's challenging economic environment, Microsoft is offering a mail-in rebate on select Microsoft Office products that you purchase pre-installed on your new PC.
None
Microsoft® Office 2007 Basic and Adobe Acrobat 9.0 STD [add $149]
Microsoft(TM) Office® Sm Business Ed 2007 -includes Publisher + Outlook 2007) Eligible for $50 Mail-in Rebate - MORE DETAILS [add $279]
Microsoft(TM) Office® Professional 2007 Eligible for $100 Mail-in Rebate - MORE DETAILS [add $349]
Just remove options 2-4. It seams that all of Dell's machines can be shipped with Office/Word.
http://www.josbank.com/ Joseph A Bank.
Not only that, I am still analog on TV scene. Comcast is removing channels that are NTSC, to digital encrypted, but still calling it EB. Blaming the station for change. We just lost MSNBC.
Top it off, they are still showing in the NTSC listing that MSNBC is there at channel 81. But it is now digital and encrypted.
To me that is false advertising.