Because, in the end, users do not want privacy. They want their Facebook, Gmail, et al for free, and are unable or unwilling to make the connection that "free" has a non-monetary price to them. These companies know this and will continue to do whatever they can get away with to make the money that keeps it "free" to the audience.
From the picture caption in TFA: The city's water tank data center: Wings were added to each side, one for networking equipment, the other for administrative offices.
And in the body of TFA: Compared with the old setup, the new infrastructure offers improved uptime and superior disaster recovery capabilities. and The emergency operation center was shut down also because there wasn't infrastructure in place to support Internet access during a storm
So then exactly why is the networking equipment outside of the protected space?
Many of these large companies, like Ford and IBM do the same thing as U of C Hospitals. I've worked for Ford and IBM as well in the past and the mindset is all ego based. One Ford engineer told me "We're too big to have ARIN take back space." Push is coming to shove and in 2011 I expect ARIN to be auditing and scrutinizing companies a lot closer on their RFC2050 compliance as outlined in the ARIN IP usage/utilization agreement.
They are correct.
ARIN has no authority over any legacy holders (like Ford). These legacy holders also have no need to follow any utilization requirements - nor are they subject to auditing - unless they were to want to request additional space from ARIN, which they won't. They essentially have a free pass unless they voluntarily return space or sign the LRSA. It doesn't matter how big or small you are. You could have a legacy/24 and still be free from ARIN policy.
Built-in replication based on log shipping. This advance consists of two features: Streaming Replication, allowing continuous archive (WAL) files to be streamed over a network connection to a standby server, and Hot Standby, allowing continuous archive standby servers to execute read-only queries. The net effect is to support a single master with multiple read-only slave servers.
Wait, what? Holy crap it's about time.
Down with the joke that is MySQL, and down with all the idiots that make me work with it.
Postgres was a joke for being extremely late to the replication party and lacking even the simplest of built-in replication. That alone made it a non-starter for a lot of environments.
Overview: Virgin Mobile USA, one of Sprint's Prepaid Brands, offers millions of customers control, flexibility and social connectivity without annual contracts for mobile phone service and prepaid Broadband2Go high-speed Web access, with national coverage for both powered by the Sprint Nationwide Network.
I personally don't do any local media so I can't comment on that. A quick walk through the google makes it look promising though. There's a huge thread on Roksbox on their forums.
My Roku gets used primarily for Netflix, Amazon, Pandora, and NASA TV. I have what they now call the HD version and paid $99 for it (now $69) and I've used it a whole lot for it to be more than worth it. I might give Roksbox a try just for fun.
I've used a Roku for Netflix (and some Amazon video) for about a year now. Works great. It's come a long way from the original version thanks to regular firmware updates.
90 MPH is pretty much the standard anyway. Seems to work rather fine with cars flying along at 90+ and trucks chugging up the passes at 30 MPH.
Same with the drive from Reno to Vegas. I cruise it at 85 with no problem. The NHP won't usually bother you unless you're going crazy fast. For those that haven't driven that route, US-95 is two lane undivided with short stretches of 25-40 MPH when you pass through the mere two cities and three "does anyone actually live here" outposts that exist on that 500 mile stretch. You will occasionally be stuck behind a convoy of people that can't seem to go faster than 50, at which point your vehicle needs to be able to reach 90+ to pass them. The fastest I've ever done out there was 110 to get around three travel trailers doing a max of 45 between Tonopah and Beatty.
The internet we the people use was never designed to survive a nuclear attack. Further to that, all of the old long lines microwave stations that actually were hardened against attack (Cold War days and all) are now offline, replaced by fiber based infrastructure that is frequently damaged by backhoes and people in the hills with rifles.
Your landline may not terminate at a CO with batteries and automatic generators anymore. There's a lot of fiber-fed remote terminals out there these days. While they have batteries, the backup plan for them is that a lineman drives up to it and plugs in to the power pedestal with the generator on their truck. It would be interesting to know how many mobile generators they have vs. fiber terminals and how large an area they can cover with emergency power before they start letting them go dead. I've only seen this happen once in practice when there was an extended power outage that lasted half the day.
I've also seen many cell phone towers in my area, but there's only one that I can readily point out that has a permanently installed diesel genset. The tower is located in a flood area, so the generator and equipment shack are elevated on a platform about 20 feet off the ground with a 200 gallon base tank. It's quite the over-design for your typical cell site, but whoever set it up meant business. The rest of the cell sites I've seen have the same pedestal with generator input arrangement.
I've had the same Ti-86 since 11th grade---about a decade ago---and I must have dropped it a few thousand times over that period. While this is a neat engineering exercise, the original design is more than capable of surviving the day-to-day paces that a student will put it through.
My TI-86 is from 1996. Never broken, never erased/lost the memory. The case has plenty of scratches and the sliding cover isn't quite as snug as when it was new, but it works just as good. I still use it today.
I've always liked the GE NX-8 or NX-8E (formerly known as Caddax) and all its various expansion modules that you can mix and match to create a unique system. I've always taken the extra effort to hardwire the sensors so I don't have to worry about RF interference, although there is a small handheld wireless panic button that hasn't given any trouble.
If they're not steel framed at least get some hefty 3" or better wood screws (or lags) that are long enough to go into the frame of the house. The stupid short ones 99.9% of people have just attach to the decorative trim or equally weak door frame.
Maybe you aren't using Powerchute, because if you were you would definitely need an APC cable. In fact, the smart features require a different cable from the "dumb" Back-Ups.
Not true for the "smart" units; RX and TX are pins 1 and 2 on the UPS DB9 connector. If you're using powerchute then short 1,4 and 7,8 on the host side so it will "detect" the cable. It's still RS-232, the cable isn't magic. Here's a handy table.
Lots of companies do this. APC puts a RS-232 serial port on a UPS but wait! They move the pins around so you need a special cable. Cisco used to have a product called the Gigastack that used a standard 6-pin Firewire cable, but no! Pins 1&2 were shorted in the "special" cables Cisco provided.
I have a Verizon Ethernet circuit that's still trying to be engineered. They made a change since that Slashdot article: it's become an IPv4 only circuit. A huge step backwards on the order. The only reason I went with Verizon in the first place is because the building I'm in already had their fiber in it, so it was on-net pricing. It was ordered over a year ago (paperwork for the fiber mux access was signed on June 7, 2009). At this point I've given up but I've been letting it ride to see how long it could possibly take. Once I was asked if I could accept as-is and it would get fixed later. I declined. In the meantime, Global Crossing was able to order their local loops (DSx and OC-x) over the fiber mux that Verizon installed. It's a win in the end for me since I don't have to pay for the mux, but now it's in use so it can't be removed. I guess they still could remove it, but gblx can fight it instead of me since it'd cut all their circuits.
It was a frustrating, rage filled experience with no resolution other than to use a different provider.
The moon is relatively "easy" as a stepping stone to bigger and better things. It's close enough to make mistakes and learn. We haven't left low earth orbit in a long time.
People do pick specific machines for its feel or luck. Some are even known to be cursed and people avoid them. Choosing one and hoping for the best out of it is very much a part of it.
If you're looking for a thrill, then table games like craps or roulette are probably more up your alley. There's much more energy and excitement around those than zoning out at a slot for an hour and hitting a button.
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I can't seem to get it to stick...
Because, in the end, users do not want privacy. They want their Facebook, Gmail, et al for free, and are unable or unwilling to make the connection that "free" has a non-monetary price to them. These companies know this and will continue to do whatever they can get away with to make the money that keeps it "free" to the audience.
From the picture caption in TFA: The city's water tank data center: Wings were added to each side, one for networking equipment, the other for administrative offices.
And in the body of TFA: Compared with the old setup, the new infrastructure offers improved uptime and superior disaster recovery capabilities. and The emergency operation center was shut down also because there wasn't infrastructure in place to support Internet access during a storm
So then exactly why is the networking equipment outside of the protected space?
Many of these large companies, like Ford and IBM do the same thing as U of C Hospitals. I've worked for Ford and IBM as well in the past and the mindset is all ego based. One Ford engineer told me "We're too big to have ARIN take back space." Push is coming to shove and in 2011 I expect ARIN to be auditing and scrutinizing companies a lot closer on their RFC2050 compliance as outlined in the ARIN IP usage/utilization agreement.
They are correct.
ARIN has no authority over any legacy holders (like Ford). These legacy holders also have no need to follow any utilization requirements - nor are they subject to auditing - unless they were to want to request additional space from ARIN, which they won't. They essentially have a free pass unless they voluntarily return space or sign the LRSA. It doesn't matter how big or small you are. You could have a legacy /24 and still be free from ARIN policy.
Built-in replication based on log shipping. This advance consists of two features: Streaming Replication, allowing continuous archive (WAL) files to be streamed over a network connection to a standby server, and Hot Standby, allowing continuous archive standby servers to execute read-only queries. The net effect is to support a single master with multiple read-only slave servers.
Wait, what? Holy crap it's about time.
Down with the joke that is MySQL, and down with all the idiots that make me work with it.
Postgres was a joke for being extremely late to the replication party and lacking even the simplest of built-in replication. That alone made it a non-starter for a lot of environments.
Damn, where do I have to live to get that?
Well, yeah you can get it, just don't you dare use it.
>>>Virgin and Boost are Sprint. Cingular is AT&T
No they really aren't. For example Virgin's HQ is in London, United Kingdom, EU
Virgin Mobile USA is not Virgin UK. Sorry, but you're quite simply wrong. See for yourself:
Go to virginmobileusa.marketwire.com and click on "Fact Sheets":
"Virgin Mobile USA Fact Sheet
Overview: Virgin Mobile USA, one of Sprint's Prepaid Brands, offers millions of customers control, flexibility and social connectivity without annual contracts for mobile phone service and prepaid Broadband2Go high-speed Web access, with national coverage for both powered by the Sprint Nationwide Network.
Headquarters: Sprint Prepaid Brands, Warren, NJ"
I personally don't do any local media so I can't comment on that. A quick walk through the google makes it look promising though. There's a huge thread on Roksbox on their forums.
My Roku gets used primarily for Netflix, Amazon, Pandora, and NASA TV. I have what they now call the HD version and paid $99 for it (now $69) and I've used it a whole lot for it to be more than worth it. I might give Roksbox a try just for fun.
Wireless, in the end, is still half duplex.
I've used a Roku for Netflix (and some Amazon video) for about a year now. Works great. It's come a long way from the original version thanks to regular firmware updates.
Well, Nevada is number one in rural road condition in the country (#15 overall). The quality of our roads is not a problem for fast moving traffic, although Vegas residents might disagree. Reno's freeways are, overall, in great condition.
90 MPH is pretty much the standard anyway. Seems to work rather fine with cars flying along at 90+ and trucks chugging up the passes at 30 MPH.
Same with the drive from Reno to Vegas. I cruise it at 85 with no problem. The NHP won't usually bother you unless you're going crazy fast. For those that haven't driven that route, US-95 is two lane undivided with short stretches of 25-40 MPH when you pass through the mere two cities and three "does anyone actually live here" outposts that exist on that 500 mile stretch. You will occasionally be stuck behind a convoy of people that can't seem to go faster than 50, at which point your vehicle needs to be able to reach 90+ to pass them. The fastest I've ever done out there was 110 to get around three travel trailers doing a max of 45 between Tonopah and Beatty.
The internet we the people use was never designed to survive a nuclear attack. Further to that, all of the old long lines microwave stations that actually were hardened against attack (Cold War days and all) are now offline, replaced by fiber based infrastructure that is frequently damaged by backhoes and people in the hills with rifles.
Your landline may not terminate at a CO with batteries and automatic generators anymore. There's a lot of fiber-fed remote terminals out there these days. While they have batteries, the backup plan for them is that a lineman drives up to it and plugs in to the power pedestal with the generator on their truck. It would be interesting to know how many mobile generators they have vs. fiber terminals and how large an area they can cover with emergency power before they start letting them go dead. I've only seen this happen once in practice when there was an extended power outage that lasted half the day.
I've also seen many cell phone towers in my area, but there's only one that I can readily point out that has a permanently installed diesel genset. The tower is located in a flood area, so the generator and equipment shack are elevated on a platform about 20 feet off the ground with a 200 gallon base tank. It's quite the over-design for your typical cell site, but whoever set it up meant business. The rest of the cell sites I've seen have the same pedestal with generator input arrangement.
Er, make that 1997. I don't think the 86 existed yet in 1996.
I've had the same Ti-86 since 11th grade---about a decade ago---and I must have dropped it a few thousand times over that period. While this is a neat engineering exercise, the original design is more than capable of surviving the day-to-day paces that a student will put it through.
My TI-86 is from 1996. Never broken, never erased/lost the memory. The case has plenty of scratches and the sliding cover isn't quite as snug as when it was new, but it works just as good. I still use it today.
Was that Colossus?
I've always liked the GE NX-8 or NX-8E (formerly known as Caddax) and all its various expansion modules that you can mix and match to create a unique system. I've always taken the extra effort to hardwire the sensors so I don't have to worry about RF interference, although there is a small handheld wireless panic button that hasn't given any trouble.
If they're not steel framed at least get some hefty 3" or better wood screws (or lags) that are long enough to go into the frame of the house. The stupid short ones 99.9% of people have just attach to the decorative trim or equally weak door frame.
Maybe you aren't using Powerchute, because if you were you would definitely need an APC cable. In fact, the smart features require a different cable from the "dumb" Back-Ups.
Not true for the "smart" units; RX and TX are pins 1 and 2 on the UPS DB9 connector. If you're using powerchute then short 1,4 and 7,8 on the host side so it will "detect" the cable. It's still RS-232, the cable isn't magic. Here's a handy table.
Lots of companies do this. APC puts a RS-232 serial port on a UPS but wait! They move the pins around so you need a special cable. Cisco used to have a product called the Gigastack that used a standard 6-pin Firewire cable, but no! Pins 1&2 were shorted in the "special" cables Cisco provided.
I know! It's like you could get infinite MPG if you stacked enough people on the car so it was too heavy to move.
I have a Verizon Ethernet circuit that's still trying to be engineered. They made a change since that Slashdot article: it's become an IPv4 only circuit. A huge step backwards on the order. The only reason I went with Verizon in the first place is because the building I'm in already had their fiber in it, so it was on-net pricing. It was ordered over a year ago (paperwork for the fiber mux access was signed on June 7, 2009). At this point I've given up but I've been letting it ride to see how long it could possibly take. Once I was asked if I could accept as-is and it would get fixed later. I declined. In the meantime, Global Crossing was able to order their local loops (DSx and OC-x) over the fiber mux that Verizon installed. It's a win in the end for me since I don't have to pay for the mux, but now it's in use so it can't be removed. I guess they still could remove it, but gblx can fight it instead of me since it'd cut all their circuits.
It was a frustrating, rage filled experience with no resolution other than to use a different provider.
The moon is relatively "easy" as a stepping stone to bigger and better things. It's close enough to make mistakes and learn. We haven't left low earth orbit in a long time.
It is revolutionary to the uninitiated, just like the "my first smartphone" iPhone adding multitasking is revolutionary.
People do pick specific machines for its feel or luck. Some are even known to be cursed and people avoid them. Choosing one and hoping for the best out of it is very much a part of it.
If you're looking for a thrill, then table games like craps or roulette are probably more up your alley. There's much more energy and excitement around those than zoning out at a slot for an hour and hitting a button.