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  1. I don't know how it is where you're at, but for earth day we have programs that go around businesses and collect their "IT junk".

  2. But lower RPM coupled with an IDE interface should eliminate ANY consideration on re-using the drives I'm referring to.

      RPM has to do with how fast a hard drive can retrieve data (access times) so that's where the data density would come in, if I'm retrieving more data per rotation, say 2x (theoretical) more, suddenly 7200rpm looks more like 14400RPM, which obviously > 10k SAS.

  3. People who use these services justify the cost because they get a certificate.

    In all honesty though, you're completely right, that whole industry is one giant scare scam.

    It's supposedly possible in a lab environment to try and recover deleted data off a wiped drive by comparing the digital and analog signal differentials I believe... but if the NSA has interest in you, that's the least of your problems.

    My preference is to use OP's unix command, except I tend to like to use /dev/urandom instead and then put them on the curb at the biz during earth day, problem solved. I'd also consider if the hard drive at some point had such sensitive data that somebody would try to do a signal differential DR on it, it may be wise to wipe it and then hold on to it in the IT closet (non-criminal data of course).

  4. Most of those legacy hard drives everybody always think can be re used are actually far lower RPM IDE hard drives. I'd be delighted to give one to somebody I don't like, but I think you get my point, they're not re-usable due to extremely poor performance.

  5. Re:Anandtech Review on Razer Edge Gaming Tablet Reviewed · · Score: 1

    That and the grammar's absolutely horrible in the summary.

    That is indeed a much more detailed and thus review, it can be a bit hard to follow for the casual reader though.

    Not quite sure what market they're targeting though, it sounds like a cool to have item, but I wanted to take mobile gaming seriously in my life for reasons unknown, I would need a very strong pitch to keep me away from alienware's m11x.

  6. Re:Goodbye USPS on Wal-Mart To Join Amazon In Providing In-Store Locker Service · · Score: 1

    Anybody who offers an overnight option... you think that gets put on a wally truck and the driver drives all night through blizzards and fields? lol

    No they use fedex or USPS.

    Your 1st idea while possible would require them to take their business to the next level of coordination as they sometimes have trouble packaging a single order currently into 1 box. There's more than a few factors to that too: availability, warehouse location, shipping option.

    While they're at that they might as well buy an international fleet of vehicles to do their deliveries am i right?

    No idea what any of your mumbling about in regards to USPS or fedex, I'd worry about the online sales tax more.

  7. Re:This solves what? on Ask Slashdot: Encrypted Digital Camera/Recording Devices? · · Score: 1

    Yep, this goes into the whole rather than a dashboard cam, use a webcam piece of this article's discussion. It'd be easy to do w a computer. My only concern is that webcams are POS in just about every regard compared to even a dashboard cam.

  8. Re:IT admins are special on Most IT Admins Have Considered Quitting Due To Stress · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Women in IT need to get over themselves, I could care less what they think.

    And if they personally get offended by a little one liner on slashdot, then I'm the least of their problems.

  9. Re:IT admins are special on Most IT Admins Have Considered Quitting Due To Stress · · Score: 1

    The less the manager knows about his/her department, the more paranoid they are. I had some stupid PM try to blame me for not completing a project in the alloted time frame when they changed their rubric and added new requirements throughout the project w/o adjusting hours (we're talking about contracting for a small fly by night code shop where the lead coder was the network admin).

    What'd I do you say? I milked the shit out of them... the project's core was never really in danger, but she was a bitch, so I went over hours got paid and left / got fired. She offered a bit more hours but at that point I was like fuck you and my firm agreed so we ended it. The project was published 2 months later > added to portfolio. Imho shitty managers should be treated as just that: shit.

    And never forget why you go to work... to get paid :)

  10. Re:This solves what? on Ask Slashdot: Encrypted Digital Camera/Recording Devices? · · Score: 1

    Sounds expensive.

  11. Re:IT admins are special on Most IT Admins Have Considered Quitting Due To Stress · · Score: 2

    There's a position for that... DBA. You're thinking mom n pop IT sweat shop where 2 guys write the code, manage the servers, and the network. Fuck their couch, only college grads should be looking at those till they learn better and get their foot in the door... bringing me back to my original post, for a college grad that stress = $$$$$$$ down the road when they become the IT QB and are no longer bothered with trivial tier I/II stuff.

  12. Re:walmart customer service on Wal-Mart To Join Amazon In Providing In-Store Locker Service · · Score: 1

    Nice rant,

    but if you look at this picture here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443545504577567763829784538.html you'll notice there's no interaction with Wal-mart employees, similar to a redbox.

    It doesn't make sense from an accountability standpoint either for it to work the way you think it does. Amazon trusting wal-mart to deliver its packages?

  13. Re:Goodbye USPS on Wal-Mart To Join Amazon In Providing In-Store Locker Service · · Score: 1

    doubtful... the package count being delivered remains the same.

  14. Re:IT admins are special on Most IT Admins Have Considered Quitting Due To Stress · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The reason most of you work so many hours is because you're sheeple. I'm sorry to say this and I don't say it in a funny sense at all, but at some point you've got to put your foot down... if somebody asked me to work on a Saturday I'd ask not to work on that Monday, if they need me for both... well shit pay me. And management knows I'll work on a Saturday, I've stated it multiple times... I've been asked once... for the ERP system transition (big big fish).

  15. Re:IT admins are special on Most IT Admins Have Considered Quitting Due To Stress · · Score: 1

    Right... what possible value can VPN or web services add to a business right?

    I'm not sure how / if network admins with no business sense differ from code monkeys, but I'm sure glad I'm not either.

    Ultimately though, the network exists to meet the need of the business (the guys who sign your paychecks).

  16. Re:IT admins are special on Most IT Admins Have Considered Quitting Due To Stress · · Score: 1

    As well as takes your career to the next level, it might comes as a shock but jobs that require more skills tend to pay more :)

  17. Re:IT admins are special on Most IT Admins Have Considered Quitting Due To Stress · · Score: 1

    where's the redundant power supply at? :P

  18. Re:IT admins are special on Most IT Admins Have Considered Quitting Due To Stress · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Life was simpler back then too... the female co-workers were also hotter.

    It's the fear of uncertainty that prevents a lot of people from quitting and the family dynamic also plays a heavy hand in it. Ultimately, you have to have confidence in yourself and a savings account to successfully quit a job you don't like... but this factors in on the 90% vs 10% competence ratio most people agree on in IT: Some people everybody wants, some people are happy anybody wants them to work for them.

    My advice is and always will be: go read some tech books and pick up relevant skills,... or go back to school. Managers tend to be happy (regardless of how they act towards you!) and that's due to the 75k happy mark.

  19. Re:This solves what? on Ask Slashdot: Encrypted Digital Camera/Recording Devices? · · Score: 1

    Or say to like a laptop which is then encrypted. I'm not sure about dashboard cams but some cameras offer wifi, which works like take the picture > send the picture > delete the picture. Not sure about a stream though. It would obviously require a lot more resources, but I'm sure an N network could handle it.

  20. Re:Lesson: Licensing costs suck on PayPal To Replace VMware With OpenStack · · Score: 1

    Fair enough, I'm still kinda curious exactly how an app can be affected by virtualization on a correct VM implementation, but I'm sure I'll run across it eventually, and if not I won't worry about it.

  21. Re:Their only network engineer... on North Korea Halts 3G Internet Access After One Month · · Score: 1

    I might actually have to agree here, they might've had insufficient IT resources to continue running it in the manner they wanted to.

    That or they thought South Korea was mooching off their 3g wireless.

  22. Re:Green schmene on Ask Slashdot: Enterprise Bitcoin Mining For Go-Green Initiatives? · · Score: 1

    When I go to any of these: http://www.bitcointrading.com/forum/spend-bitcoins/online-stores-accepting-bitcoins/#post_food I can't help but notice a distinct lack of bitcoin currency signage all the way through checkout.

    Your link is symbolic of bitcoin: it looks great on the surface, then you try to do something with it and realize its DOA.

  23. Re:so WTF are normal temperatures then? on Cold Spring Linked To Dramatic Sea Ice Loss · · Score: 2

    Shifting weather patterns make perfect sense. Us being 6 billion people strong and contributing to it makes sense. What these scientist are saying on a month to month basis doesn't... I believe it's called junk science.

  24. Re:so WTF are normal temperatures then? on Cold Spring Linked To Dramatic Sea Ice Loss · · Score: 0

    Simple answer: We don't really know

    Scientific answer: something about wearing your ass for a hat every time you drive to work to pay their research grants.

  25. Re:Lol on Targeted Attack Campaign Uses Android Malware · · Score: 1

    so... when your friend sends you an apk file w/o prior notice... does that not strike you as the least bit odd?

    And... do you realize in regards to phishing / spear phishing that both Android and iOS are equally vulnerable to it? Apple just likes to keep the blind fold on its customers while it collects their anatomical sizes.