The DC-10 (all types) was grounded after having its type certificate suspended by the FAA following the crash of N110AA. Grounding a fleet of aircraft is not unique to the Concorde.
The other problem is that every damn thing on the internet now requires a login and password - so much that we start using crap passwords like "asdf" for sites like your phpbb forum login, which happens to be the same as the other 50 forums you have accounts on or ever needed to register for to ask a one-off question.
Even if you have a UPS your power supply can still flip out. Usually at 3am. Stupid cheap caps are everywhere these days. Likewise I've seen a UPS and its batteries fail more times than the mains. Self test time? Oops, time to turn off! So many things can go wrong. Controllers with battery-backed cache should be given strong consideration if you're building something with the intent to be reliable.
Of course make sure you test the battery on your RAID card, too. At least when it fails it just shuts off the write cache, not the whole enchilada.
Obviously it depends. If you just want a new phone and they have nothing else of value to offer you then get the phone. The point was you can negotiate if you wanted to rather than bend over and do what they tell you. In your case you could try negotiating for $100 on that phone instead of $149 plus some comp for the $10/mo stuff.
Out of curiosity do you know if the NOAA/EAS weather radio was on the air?
As far as radio, it seems odd you didn't have *any* radio stations, unless the transmitters got knocked to the ground. I know in flat country lots of stations will share the same tower, but over here in the mountains many broadcasters have standalone installations. Although with the DTV conversion several of the local stations banded together at a single tower site in order to afford the upgrades.
My gmail account is for some unknown reason a spam collection magnet. I get hundreds of spam messages daily. I find this interesting because I never use the damn account and yet there's all the spam. (No, it's not a dictionary name or my actual name for the address.) I used to attribute this phenomenon to hotmail but I guess gmail felt they needed to show me how good their spam filter is and look at all the spam it caught.
4) Get a new and totally different message from your favorite monitoring program or pager and gmail thinks they're all part of the same "conversation" when they aren't.
It's a spoof. The attacker sends requests to lots of different nameservers with a spoofed return address. Those servers respond to that address as normal. The target suddenly gets a lot of DNS traffic from all over the place. Instant amplification attack.
(Gross simplification, but it's late and someone else can explain the details.)
But you *could* get a reduced service rate or other goodies.
Let the contract ride. When you get close to your date you'll start getting calls regarding your account. But the ball is in your court to negotiate with them because you can freely leave once the date passes. Most carriers don't like letting customers leave (hence the early term fee) and they'll do almost anything to keep you. They'll try to sell you phones or something, but pretend you're going to switch and hold out for free services and discounts if you don't really want to switch carriers.
Google's SLA is pretty pointless though. Maximum of 15 days free service at the end of your term that you have to ask for yourself? You might as well not even bother saying they have an SLA. Companies that give money back per X minutes of downtime or allow early term cancellations have a higher incentive to provide better service. (Although this is strictly my personal opinion since I'd rather not give money back.)
But you're right that you could get far cheaper and more reliable service by outsourcing your mail, especially if one is facing existing Exchange problems that require a forklift upgrade that could pay for decades of hosted mail service. Unless you're a really large org (university, fortune 500, etc.) there's little to no financial incentive to running your own mail server these days.
Disclaimer: I run one such mail hosting service that caters to small shops.
When I was young in the 80's, I remember at least half of the store was parts and stuff. I thought it was awesome. About a year ago I needed some resistors or something in a hurry and I discovered that it has become two bins with sliding drawers. There's a place locally called Sandy's Electronics that's nothing but components and more, albeit a bit expensive. If they ever disappear I'll probably be forced to order things online.
NOAA weather radio. Unlike the TV, it will come on by itself when an alert goes out. Some of them have sirens in them loud enough to wake the dead in the middle of the night when you're sleeping.
I'll second you on the NOAA radio since I don't have mod points for you. You're absolutely right - anyone serious about being alerted to dangerous weather should get a weather radio. Not just for weather, but for any alert/warning/advisory that might go out over the system. They're cheap, they all run on batteries in some form, and they come on automatically if there's an alert. The fancy ones will display the alert and flash a blinking light if you happened to be away when an alert went out.
I just purchased one even though I don't live in a dangerous weather area. I figure I never know what it might need to alert me about.
There's two ways: the "emergency only" way and the fancy everything automatic way.
#1: Any gas generator with a 240/120v twist lock outlet plus one of those 6 to 10 circuit generator transfer switches. The transfer switch has rocker switches on it and you pick your favorite circuits that you want to run on the generator during an outage. It wires in next to your breaker box - no need to run new wire anywhere. They usually have watt meters on them, too. When the power goes out, plug the generator into the transfer switch, fire it up, and switch the circuits to emergency. Get a generator in the 5 to 10 kW range. Cheap and effective, but the downside is you have to start it manually, and most portable units you can find run on unleaded gas. Make sure you run the generator at least once a month or you'll be in a world of hurt when you need it the most and it doesn't want to start.
#2: The fancy automated way. Get one of those Generac whole-house units. They have automatic transfer switches that completely bypass the utility feed and run the whole panel. When the power goes out it auto-starts and auto-transfers. They automatically start to exercise every week, too. These will probably be special order and definitely more expensive, but well worth it if you frequently have extended power outages with crappy weather and you don't want to go outside to fire up the generator. They can run on natural gas or propane. Get at leat a 10kW unit.
Either way you go use a transfer switch that wires into your breaker panel. It's much easier than running new wire or extension cords everywhere, especially when the power is out and you just want to get the damn thing running.
The all around price is higher (unit, consumables) and people assume it eats toner like an inkjet so they'll be spending $100 every other week for toner instead of $30 for ink. Of course that simply isn't true. I gave my girlfriend's family my old LaserJet IIIp and external print server (I upgraded to a 2100TN/M I got for $5 at the local university surplus sale) because they were buying ink every other week. They didn't believe me when I said the laser toner would last much longer than the inkjet.
I don't know about "software" but the management cards you can put in to the higher end units don't lie. It actually doesn't catch power bumps under a second; only after 2 or 3 seconds. I have and older SmartUPS 700 on my computer because the power quality at home is horrible - the lights regularly go bright/dim several times a day - and it'll switch to battery briefly, but it's not in the event log unless it's over a second. If I didn't have the UPS, I'd probably be in a fit of range from daily power interruptions. (APC SNMP/Web cards)
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A group of private investors bought it in 2001. They're very much still in business.
The DC-10 (all types) was grounded after having its type certificate suspended by the FAA following the crash of N110AA. Grounding a fleet of aircraft is not unique to the Concorde.
Make a password recovery system that assigns a new random generated password when a user "recovers" the password. Problem solved.
The other problem is that every damn thing on the internet now requires a login and password - so much that we start using crap passwords like "asdf" for sites like your phpbb forum login, which happens to be the same as the other 50 forums you have accounts on or ever needed to register for to ask a one-off question.
People who want no-nonsense, straightforward replication.
Even if you have a UPS your power supply can still flip out. Usually at 3am. Stupid cheap caps are everywhere these days. Likewise I've seen a UPS and its batteries fail more times than the mains. Self test time? Oops, time to turn off! So many things can go wrong. Controllers with battery-backed cache should be given strong consideration if you're building something with the intent to be reliable.
Of course make sure you test the battery on your RAID card, too. At least when it fails it just shuts off the write cache, not the whole enchilada.
Obviously it depends. If you just want a new phone and they have nothing else of value to offer you then get the phone. The point was you can negotiate if you wanted to rather than bend over and do what they tell you. In your case you could try negotiating for $100 on that phone instead of $149 plus some comp for the $10/mo stuff.
Out of curiosity do you know if the NOAA/EAS weather radio was on the air?
As far as radio, it seems odd you didn't have *any* radio stations, unless the transmitters got knocked to the ground. I know in flat country lots of stations will share the same tower, but over here in the mountains many broadcasters have standalone installations. Although with the DTV conversion several of the local stations banded together at a single tower site in order to afford the upgrades.
My gmail account is for some unknown reason a spam collection magnet. I get hundreds of spam messages daily. I find this interesting because I never use the damn account and yet there's all the spam. (No, it's not a dictionary name or my actual name for the address.) I used to attribute this phenomenon to hotmail but I guess gmail felt they needed to show me how good their spam filter is and look at all the spam it caught.
4) Get a new and totally different message from your favorite monitoring program or pager and gmail thinks they're all part of the same "conversation" when they aren't.
It happens a lot, actually. Many of the cheap HD displays say 1080p but have a 1024x768 screen when it should be 1920x1080 to really be 1080p.
It's a spoof. The attacker sends requests to lots of different nameservers with a spoofed return address. Those servers respond to that address as normal. The target suddenly gets a lot of DNS traffic from all over the place. Instant amplification attack.
(Gross simplification, but it's late and someone else can explain the details.)
Holy crap... I thought my 12.22 cents was high.
Sprint will, or at least they used to. Last time around I got them to take a percentage off the top of the bill every month.
But you *could* get a reduced service rate or other goodies.
Let the contract ride. When you get close to your date you'll start getting calls regarding your account. But the ball is in your court to negotiate with them because you can freely leave once the date passes. Most carriers don't like letting customers leave (hence the early term fee) and they'll do almost anything to keep you. They'll try to sell you phones or something, but pretend you're going to switch and hold out for free services and discounts if you don't really want to switch carriers.
Google's SLA is pretty pointless though. Maximum of 15 days free service at the end of your term that you have to ask for yourself? You might as well not even bother saying they have an SLA. Companies that give money back per X minutes of downtime or allow early term cancellations have a higher incentive to provide better service. (Although this is strictly my personal opinion since I'd rather not give money back.)
But you're right that you could get far cheaper and more reliable service by outsourcing your mail, especially if one is facing existing Exchange problems that require a forklift upgrade that could pay for decades of hosted mail service. Unless you're a really large org (university, fortune 500, etc.) there's little to no financial incentive to running your own mail server these days.
Disclaimer: I run one such mail hosting service that caters to small shops.
When I was young in the 80's, I remember at least half of the store was parts and stuff. I thought it was awesome. About a year ago I needed some resistors or something in a hurry and I discovered that it has become two bins with sliding drawers. There's a place locally called Sandy's Electronics that's nothing but components and more, albeit a bit expensive. If they ever disappear I'll probably be forced to order things online.
Both can also be compared to the Windows logo which I'm pretty sure (didn't actually look it up) predates both of them.
The background looks like the Windows logo rotated 90 degrees to me.
NOAA weather radio. Unlike the TV, it will come on by itself when an alert goes out. Some of them have sirens in them loud enough to wake the dead in the middle of the night when you're sleeping.
I'll second you on the NOAA radio since I don't have mod points for you. You're absolutely right - anyone serious about being alerted to dangerous weather should get a weather radio. Not just for weather, but for any alert/warning/advisory that might go out over the system. They're cheap, they all run on batteries in some form, and they come on automatically if there's an alert. The fancy ones will display the alert and flash a blinking light if you happened to be away when an alert went out.
I just purchased one even though I don't live in a dangerous weather area. I figure I never know what it might need to alert me about.
There's two ways: the "emergency only" way and the fancy everything automatic way.
#1: Any gas generator with a 240/120v twist lock outlet plus one of those 6 to 10 circuit generator transfer switches. The transfer switch has rocker switches on it and you pick your favorite circuits that you want to run on the generator during an outage. It wires in next to your breaker box - no need to run new wire anywhere. They usually have watt meters on them, too. When the power goes out, plug the generator into the transfer switch, fire it up, and switch the circuits to emergency. Get a generator in the 5 to 10 kW range. Cheap and effective, but the downside is you have to start it manually, and most portable units you can find run on unleaded gas. Make sure you run the generator at least once a month or you'll be in a world of hurt when you need it the most and it doesn't want to start.
#2: The fancy automated way. Get one of those Generac whole-house units. They have automatic transfer switches that completely bypass the utility feed and run the whole panel. When the power goes out it auto-starts and auto-transfers. They automatically start to exercise every week, too. These will probably be special order and definitely more expensive, but well worth it if you frequently have extended power outages with crappy weather and you don't want to go outside to fire up the generator. They can run on natural gas or propane. Get at leat a 10kW unit.
Either way you go use a transfer switch that wires into your breaker panel. It's much easier than running new wire or extension cords everywhere, especially when the power is out and you just want to get the damn thing running.
When you work for yourself the payoff is different. Sure, the work may be just as long and hard (if not more), but it's all yours.
The all around price is higher (unit, consumables) and people assume it eats toner like an inkjet so they'll be spending $100 every other week for toner instead of $30 for ink. Of course that simply isn't true. I gave my girlfriend's family my old LaserJet IIIp and external print server (I upgraded to a 2100TN/M I got for $5 at the local university surplus sale) because they were buying ink every other week. They didn't believe me when I said the laser toner would last much longer than the inkjet.
I don't know about "software" but the management cards you can put in to the higher end units don't lie. It actually doesn't catch power bumps under a second; only after 2 or 3 seconds. I have and older SmartUPS 700 on my computer because the power quality at home is horrible - the lights regularly go bright/dim several times a day - and it'll switch to battery briefly, but it's not in the event log unless it's over a second. If I didn't have the UPS, I'd probably be in a fit of range from daily power interruptions. (APC SNMP/Web cards)