Interestingly enough, I've seen "../" in queries from search engines on my site while they were indexing it. Apparently looking for any and all content they could index. Does this make google and yahoo criminals also?
If cogent simply shut down their peering session with L3, that still should not prevent users from getting to L3's network. Cogent is peered with other Tier 1 providers, and traffic should take that route, for example:
Instead of Cogent -> L3 We have Cogent -> MCI ->L3
However, if users on either network cannot access the other, it means that at least one of those providers is actively filtering all routes coming from the other's AS through their other peers. Why would they do this? If I were a customer, I'd be pissed, and I'd probably leave and go to another Tier 1 provider that wasn't Cogent or L3. Seems childish to me.
Could it be x86 updates? I know they said not until next year, but, maybe they have a surprise up their sleeve. x86 desktops and laptops have been around for a long time, and I can't imagine they would need over a year to get the hardware designed.
True, some of it is OS tweaking, but they had most of that done. Plus, Rosetta works, so at this point, it's not a huge deal if software vendors don't have a native x86 binary (Safari running under Rosetta still ran faster than it did on a native PPC box)
Temperature can be fooled too with this technique, and it allows one to lift a fingerprint from just about anywhere, including the fingerprint scanner they just used.
2. Whether the movie industry likes it or not, movie distribution is going digital. It's going to happen. Why bring out a whole new line of hardware and products that are probably going to be obsolete in a couple of years?
Plus, there's no way I'm going to buy something like that, it's just such a huge waste on so many levels.
It's open source, not GPL though. They make their money selling hardware, but you can install it for free on your own stuff. It consists of a server, Media boxes that go near your TV's and stereo's, and Orbiters. The Orbiters are basically fancy remotes, they have the software to use a PDA for it, a Nokia/Symbian phone, or even a tablet PC. All free.
Using X10 equipment, you can create extremely complex controls and automation for various scenarios. I was going to do Misterhouse, but this thing looks so much sexier.
I used to work for a company that had insane policies on maintenance windows, like 15 minutes a month, even if it involved no downtime. The majority of the job was spent in meetings all day long with people who knew nothing about technology coming up with ideas and plans to implement different things. Consequently, everything at that place got done very half-assed.
Then, the only other good IT guy there and I came up with a plan, we called it Covert Network Operations. Basically, we modelled the ideal environment and came up with a plan to convert the current infrastructure over to it. Then, once or twice a month at like 3am, we'd sneak into the office and do our thing (installing and replacing routers/switches, making config changes, recabling, etc). Because of all the political BS at that place, we accompilished in just a few months what would otherwise have taken years, and the environment is way more stable now. And, we never made any serious impact on the operation of the network.
What we did probably would have gotten us fired, but in the end, the company is much better off. But, we weren't any better off since we didn't get any recognition for doing the work since it was on the downlow. Bottom line is, companies need to listen to their smart people and learn to take risks instead of letting people who know nothing about technology hide under their desks.
There are many comments here about Apple starting their own label, and how they can't right now because of the Apple Records lawsuit. Why not leverage the Pixar name and start a label under that? Promise the artists something insane, like a 70% cut of all sales on it for switching from a RIAA label to Pixar. We already know that artists are getting some insanely low 1-2% cut, or even lower in some cases now. If they buyout their contract, or fulfill the contract by releasing the remainder of their albums, there is nothing to stop them from moving.
Apple/Pixar are currently in a perfect position to really shake things up in the Music industry, and if I were any of the major labels, I'd be really careful not to piss off Jobs. The only thing the labels are bringing to the table right now is their contracts with artists, and if Apple owns their own label and those contracts expire, there could be plenty of incentive for artists to give the finger to RIAA labels and switch over.
Online music distribution is where everything is currently heading, I would venture to guess that purchasing a CD in 10 years from a retailer will be next to impossible. I also think that it is in Apple's best interest to form their own label (or buyout Apple Records) and use that to distribute their music. If the big moneymaking artists signed with the dinosaur labels start leaving and going with another label that treats them right, those labels will be screwed. It's a realistic situation, and it's going to happen at some point (even if it's not with Apple).
Another thought on this, the label could not initially rely on online distribution only. They need to have some way for people to buy their albums at traditional retailers. Do they print and press CD's and distribute them, or do they use some of the on demand CD duplication technologies that are out there? It certainly would be nice to be able to walk into a store, select 10 different songs from 10 different albums, hit Print and have a CD with a nice printed cover in my hand in a couple of minutes. Not only does this provide some novelty and convenience, but it greatly increases the amount of different music that a retailer sells. I know when I go into Target and look for something that's not mainstream, I can't find it. Having a Kiosk like this would be able to provide me with literally everything I was looking for (since it would be connected to the net and have full access to the iTunes music store library).
To expand on this, a guy named Robert Graham has written a couple of books on the subject. He IS a crackpot with some of his theories, but, they are all based upon the pyramids being 10,000 years old and the evidence which supports this. He also mentions many of the structures in South America, interesting stories which have been passed down, etc.
Personally, I think some of these guys that preach the 10000 year age of the pyramids are crackpots due to some of the other stuff they believe. However, their evidence is quite interesting, and it's much more evidence than the Egyptologists have. The bulk of the egyptologists evidence is writing on the walls inside the pyramids, the bulk of the 10,000 year evidence is geological and also references how the pyramids are laid out according to certain constellations and only matched up in 8000 something BC.
The egyptologists are very set in what they believe and are unwilling to even consider they might have been wrong about some things.
I use this stuff to shop pinball machines. You can take plastic that's been rubbed on cement and get all of the scratches out with it. Just start with #1 and work your way up to #3. Works great on plastic headlight lens too. Amazing stuff.
Apple should convince the record companies to do a little experiement w/ iTunes. For one or two weeks, drop the price of tracks to 25 cents. Then, for one or two weeks, increase the price from what it currently is. With a little more detailed plan and some creativity, they could probably come up with a pricing scheme that would be both fair to consumers, and would maximize their profits. I know I would buy *MUCH* more music if it was only 25 cents a track. In fact, I know many people that use allofmp3.com to buy all of their music because it is so cheap, and several of them spend hundreds of dollars per year there.
It's possible mine didn't work because the firewall where I'm at might be blocking GRE. I do have a 1-1 NAT address going out, not PAT, so that shouldn't be an issue. But I suspect their rules are permit only tcp and udp.
Why did Google choose to use PPTP? If someone is at a coffee shop behind a little netgear firewall/ap, the PPTP passthrough usually only works for ONE person, because it can't really do GRE connection tracking since there are no port numbers associated with GRE. It would be much better if they were wrapping this data inside of TCP or UDP to ensure that NAT and/or firewall issues don't prevent the traffic from passing.
Actually, the probe would have been there much much sooner, but someone accidentally entered "up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, select, start" when they should have entered "up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, start".
It's a common mistake. It's too bad it had to happen on the controls to this thing though.
NASA has, however, licensed the control technology used on this probe. Unfortunately, they are unsure as to whether or not their current shuttle control systems have enough power to be able to take commands from the unit. Fortunately, when the engineers do something wrong, they will have the assurance of being able to grab the cord 1 foot up from the controls and smack it repeatedly into a cement basement floor with no damage.
You have a good point. Apple is definitely well known for their design and ease of use of their products. It's quite obvious that motorola did most of the design on this phone, as it's like every other motorola phone.
IMO, the Sidekick II has one of the best interfaces and form factors of any device out there right now. It could be a bit smaller, but I like the clamshell/rotating screen because it protects my buttons and I can toss it in my pocket. The scrolly wheel makes the device a dream to use. The only thing that sucks about it is there is no real way to sync the thing without paying for T-mobiles ripoff sync service, there's no bluetooth on the device, and it has a camera which sucks.
If apple made a Sidekick type device, without a stupid camera, ipodish capabilities (even minimal), a sexy interface, and GSM, I would totally be in love with said device. In fact, my girlfriend may even get jealous of my attachment to this theoretical device.
I'm not saying PDA at all, just something like a sidekick. If they had Xcode support to cross compile apps for it, that would be even better.
She's probably using ReadIris's OCR addon for ReadIris Pro. I use ReadIris Pro with a Fujitsu SnapScan under OSX. 30ppm, double sided, full color.
All of my paperwork gets scanned, OCR, saved as searchable PDF's (for use with spotlight), and then shredded. That SnapScan is one of the most useful purchases I've ever made.
If you use it on OSX, you need a 3rd party OCR app, and ReadIris Pro is the only one I've really found. Omnipage runs under classic mode. But if you use it with windows, it comes with Adobe OCR software.
Note that if she gets this scanner, she won't be able to scan pages from a book without removing them first.
I see everyone complaining that it sounds like crap. Does it sound like crap because the melody sucks, or does it sound like crap because it just sounds like computer generated tones?
What if this thing was hooked up to a decent midi device, or some sort of device that had actual recorded sounds of the instruments? Maybe add some fret noise for certain types of guitars, etc...
I think something like this would actually be pretty cool to have set up on a machine, or as an appliance to provide quiet background music for public places, or when just sitting around the house. Have it randomly change settings and instruments, or allow you to define a certain set of parameters that you wanted to stay constant (types of instruments, pitch, whatever).
It could be your own personal composer that never played the same tune twice. I don't think this would sound half bad if it had decent reproductions of instrument sounds in it, the classical tab produced some interesting results when I changed the default from horns to strings and violins, and then increased the height to like 19 in the other tab.
What about setting up an app with this that communicates back to a central server. When you are just listening to it and you hear something you particularly like, you hit a button and it uploads the settings you've had over the past few minutes to the central server. All devices download those "higher" rated setting, make variations on them and play them. People re-upload the settings they like, and the process starts all over again. Would you eventually end up with "perfect" music?
A lot of people are dismissing this thing as crap, but it's really rather interesting.
You can dye plastic. RIT actually works on some types of plastic, and some autoparts stores sell dye meant for plastics. I'm sure you can find what you need by searching for it though.
Just dunk the whole damn thing in a bucket of dye and dry it off under a heat lamp for a couple of days. I've washed keyboards in the dishwasher before and dried them that way, and they still worked just fine.
My buddy went to iraq and got an HP business laptop. 3 year warranty with next day parts. Although when he called them, they said it takes them a couple days to get parts to Iraq.
Don't buy a crappy consumer model, order it from their website from the small or large business section to get what you need. Keyboards in the desert die every few months, and your cdrom won't last more than 2 months. Even if the thing is ruggedized, sand is still going to work its way in there and hose the thing.
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No, you wanna click this link. :)
Interestingly enough, I've seen "../" in queries from search engines on my site while they were indexing it. Apparently looking for any and all content they could index. Does this make google and yahoo criminals also?
If cogent simply shut down their peering session with L3, that still should not prevent users from getting to L3's network. Cogent is peered with other Tier 1 providers, and traffic should take that route, for example:
Instead of Cogent -> L3
We have Cogent -> MCI ->L3
However, if users on either network cannot access the other, it means that at least one of those providers is actively filtering all routes coming from the other's AS through their other peers. Why would they do this? If I were a customer, I'd be pissed, and I'd probably leave and go to another Tier 1 provider that wasn't Cogent or L3. Seems childish to me.
Could it be x86 updates? I know they said not until next year, but, maybe they have a surprise up their sleeve. x86 desktops and laptops have been around for a long time, and I can't imagine they would need over a year to get the hardware designed.
True, some of it is OS tweaking, but they had most of that done. Plus, Rosetta works, so at this point, it's not a huge deal if software vendors don't have a native x86 binary (Safari running under Rosetta still ran faster than it did on a native PPC box)
Temperature can be fooled too with this technique, and it allows one to lift a fingerprint from just about anywhere, including the fingerprint scanner they just used.
1. More garbage, the treehuggers will be pissed.
2. Whether the movie industry likes it or not, movie distribution is going digital. It's going to happen. Why bring out a whole new line of hardware and products that are probably going to be obsolete in a couple of years?
Plus, there's no way I'm going to buy something like that, it's just such a huge waste on so many levels.
Why not install an entire home automation system that includes MythTV?
Check out Pluto
It's open source, not GPL though. They make their money selling hardware, but you can install it for free on your own stuff. It consists of a server, Media boxes that go near your TV's and stereo's, and Orbiters. The Orbiters are basically fancy remotes, they have the software to use a PDA for it, a Nokia/Symbian phone, or even a tablet PC. All free.
Using X10 equipment, you can create extremely complex controls and automation for various scenarios. I was going to do Misterhouse, but this thing looks so much sexier.
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Covert Network Operations
I used to work for a company that had insane policies on maintenance windows, like 15 minutes a month, even if it involved no downtime. The majority of the job was spent in meetings all day long with people who knew nothing about technology coming up with ideas and plans to implement different things. Consequently, everything at that place got done very half-assed.
Then, the only other good IT guy there and I came up with a plan, we called it Covert Network Operations. Basically, we modelled the ideal environment and came up with a plan to convert the current infrastructure over to it. Then, once or twice a month at like 3am, we'd sneak into the office and do our thing (installing and replacing routers/switches, making config changes, recabling, etc). Because of all the political BS at that place, we accompilished in just a few months what would otherwise have taken years, and the environment is way more stable now. And, we never made any serious impact on the operation of the network.
What we did probably would have gotten us fired, but in the end, the company is much better off. But, we weren't any better off since we didn't get any recognition for doing the work since it was on the downlow. Bottom line is, companies need to listen to their smart people and learn to take risks instead of letting people who know nothing about technology hide under their desks.
There are many comments here about Apple starting their own label, and how they can't right now because of the Apple Records lawsuit. Why not leverage the Pixar name and start a label under that? Promise the artists something insane, like a 70% cut of all sales on it for switching from a RIAA label to Pixar. We already know that artists are getting some insanely low 1-2% cut, or even lower in some cases now. If they buyout their contract, or fulfill the contract by releasing the remainder of their albums, there is nothing to stop them from moving.
Apple/Pixar are currently in a perfect position to really shake things up in the Music industry, and if I were any of the major labels, I'd be really careful not to piss off Jobs. The only thing the labels are bringing to the table right now is their contracts with artists, and if Apple owns their own label and those contracts expire, there could be plenty of incentive for artists to give the finger to RIAA labels and switch over.
Online music distribution is where everything is currently heading, I would venture to guess that purchasing a CD in 10 years from a retailer will be next to impossible. I also think that it is in Apple's best interest to form their own label (or buyout Apple Records) and use that to distribute their music. If the big moneymaking artists signed with the dinosaur labels start leaving and going with another label that treats them right, those labels will be screwed. It's a realistic situation, and it's going to happen at some point (even if it's not with Apple).
Another thought on this, the label could not initially rely on online distribution only. They need to have some way for people to buy their albums at traditional retailers. Do they print and press CD's and distribute them, or do they use some of the on demand CD duplication technologies that are out there? It certainly would be nice to be able to walk into a store, select 10 different songs from 10 different albums, hit Print and have a CD with a nice printed cover in my hand in a couple of minutes. Not only does this provide some novelty and convenience, but it greatly increases the amount of different music that a retailer sells. I know when I go into Target and look for something that's not mainstream, I can't find it. Having a Kiosk like this would be able to provide me with literally everything I was looking for (since it would be connected to the net and have full access to the iTunes music store library).
To expand on this, a guy named Robert Graham has written a couple of books on the subject. He IS a crackpot with some of his theories, but, they are all based upon the pyramids being 10,000 years old and the evidence which supports this. He also mentions many of the structures in South America, interesting stories which have been passed down, etc.
Personally, I think some of these guys that preach the 10000 year age of the pyramids are crackpots due to some of the other stuff they believe. However, their evidence is quite interesting, and it's much more evidence than the Egyptologists have. The bulk of the egyptologists evidence is writing on the walls inside the pyramids, the bulk of the 10,000 year evidence is geological and also references how the pyramids are laid out according to certain constellations and only matched up in 8000 something BC.
The egyptologists are very set in what they believe and are unwilling to even consider they might have been wrong about some things.
In MN, it's perfectly legal to make a shoplifter pay for the item PLUS an additional $50.
Novus plastic polish
I use this stuff to shop pinball machines. You can take plastic that's been rubbed on cement and get all of the scratches out with it. Just start with #1 and work your way up to #3. Works great on plastic headlight lens too. Amazing stuff.
Starbucks doesn't franchise, they are all company owned stores. :)
Apple should convince the record companies to do a little experiement w/ iTunes. For one or two weeks, drop the price of tracks to 25 cents. Then, for one or two weeks, increase the price from what it currently is. With a little more detailed plan and some creativity, they could probably come up with a pricing scheme that would be both fair to consumers, and would maximize their profits. I know I would buy *MUCH* more music if it was only 25 cents a track. In fact, I know many people that use allofmp3.com to buy all of their music because it is so cheap, and several of them spend hundreds of dollars per year there.
It's possible mine didn't work because the firewall where I'm at might be blocking GRE. I do have a 1-1 NAT address going out, not PAT, so that shouldn't be an issue. But I suspect their rules are permit only tcp and udp.
Why did Google choose to use PPTP? If someone is at a coffee shop behind a little netgear firewall/ap, the PPTP passthrough usually only works for ONE person, because it can't really do GRE connection tracking since there are no port numbers associated with GRE. It would be much better if they were wrapping this data inside of TCP or UDP to ensure that NAT and/or firewall issues don't prevent the traffic from passing.
The following is a tcpdump log from the OSX PPTP client using a user/pass I obtained from that URL. It failed, and I don't have time to work on it now
11:42:43.314754 IP 192.168.41.245.63157 > 66.28.250.27.1723: S 1641861584:1641861584(0) win 65535
11:42:43.373705 IP 66.28.250.27.1723 > 192.168.41.245.63157: S 1294960942:1294960942(0) ack 1641861585 win 5792
11:42:43.373819 IP 192.168.41.245.63157 > 66.28.250.27.1723: . ack 1 win 65535
11:42:43.393987 IP 192.168.41.245.63157 > 66.28.250.27.1723: P 1:157(156) ack 1 win 65535 : pptp CTRL_MSGTYPE=SCCRQ PROTO_VER(1.0) FRAME_CAP(A) BEARER_CAP(A) MAX_CHAN(0) FIRM_REV(0) [|pptp]
11:42:43.454221 IP 66.28.250.27.1723 > 192.168.41.245.63157: . ack 157 win 5792
11:42:43.456118 IP 66.28.250.27.1723 > 192.168.41.245.63157: P 1:157(156) ack 157 win 5792 : pptp CTRL_MSGTYPE=SCCRP PROTO_VER(1.0) RESULT_CODE(1) ERR_CODE(0) FRAME_CAP() BEARER_CAP() MAX_CHAN(1) FIRM_REV(1) [|pptp]
11:42:43.466277 IP 192.168.41.245.63157 > 66.28.250.27.1723: . ack 157 win 65535
11:42:43.482869 IP 192.168.41.245.63157 > 66.28.250.27.1723: P 157:325(168) ack 157 win 65535 : pptp CTRL_MSGTYPE=OCRQ CALL_ID(4342) CALL_SER_NUM(0) MIN_BPS(300) MAX_BPS(100000000) BEARER_TYPE(Any) [|pptp]
11:42:43.546831 IP 66.28.250.27.1723 > 192.168.41.245.63157: P 157:189(32) ack 325 win 5792 : pptp CTRL_MSGTYPE=OCRP CALL_ID(47232) PEER_CALL_ID(4342) RESULT_CODE(1) ERR_CODE(0) CAUSE_CODE(0) CONN_SPEED(100000000) RECV_WIN(64) PROC_DELAY(0) [|pptp]
11:42:43.582905 IP 192.168.41.245.63157 > 66.28.250.27.1723: P 325:349(24) ack 189 win 65535 : pptp CTRL_MSGTYPE=SLI PEER_CALL_ID(47232) SEND_ACCM(0xffffffff) RECV_ACCM(0xffffffff)
11:42:43.677533 IP 66.28.250.27.1723 > 192.168.41.245.63157: . ack 349 win 5792
11:42:43.810106 IP 192.168.41.245 > 66.28.250.27: call 47232 seq 1 gre-ppp-payload
11:42:44.588097 IP 66.28.250.27.1723 > 192.168.41.245.63157: F 189:189(0) ack 349 win 5792 11:42:44.588205 IP 192.168.41.245.63157 > 66.28.250.27.1723: . ack 190 win 65535
11:42:44.644231 IP 192.168.41.245.63157 > 66.28.250.27.1723: F 349:349(0) ack 190 win 65535
11:42:44.715930 IP 66.28.250.27.1723 > 192.168.41.245.63157: . ack 350 win 5792
I did a bunch of testing among almost all of the products listed at cmsmatrix, and typo3 was easily the best one. I highly suggest it.
This is what I'm going to use for my new and improved site listed in my sig.
I second the spreadsheet suggestion. I've never seen anyone use Photoshop, or even visio, for tracking what ports are set up for.
If your switches are manageable, you should be able to find, or write something that will pull all of the port settings for you.
Actually, the probe would have been there much much sooner, but someone accidentally entered "up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, select, start" when they should have entered "up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, start".
It's a common mistake. It's too bad it had to happen on the controls to this thing though.
NASA has, however, licensed the control technology used on this probe. Unfortunately, they are unsure as to whether or not their current shuttle control systems have enough power to be able to take commands from the unit. Fortunately, when the engineers do something wrong, they will have the assurance of being able to grab the cord 1 foot up from the controls and smack it repeatedly into a cement basement floor with no damage.
You have a good point. Apple is definitely well known for their design and ease of use of their products. It's quite obvious that motorola did most of the design on this phone, as it's like every other motorola phone.
IMO, the Sidekick II has one of the best interfaces and form factors of any device out there right now. It could be a bit smaller, but I like the clamshell/rotating screen because it protects my buttons and I can toss it in my pocket. The scrolly wheel makes the device a dream to use. The only thing that sucks about it is there is no real way to sync the thing without paying for T-mobiles ripoff sync service, there's no bluetooth on the device, and it has a camera which sucks.
If apple made a Sidekick type device, without a stupid camera, ipodish capabilities (even minimal), a sexy interface, and GSM, I would totally be in love with said device. In fact, my girlfriend may even get jealous of my attachment to this theoretical device.
I'm not saying PDA at all, just something like a sidekick. If they had Xcode support to cross compile apps for it, that would be even better.
She's probably using ReadIris's OCR addon for ReadIris Pro. I use ReadIris Pro with a Fujitsu SnapScan under OSX. 30ppm, double sided, full color.
All of my paperwork gets scanned, OCR, saved as searchable PDF's (for use with spotlight), and then shredded. That SnapScan is one of the most useful purchases I've ever made.
If you use it on OSX, you need a 3rd party OCR app, and ReadIris Pro is the only one I've really found. Omnipage runs under classic mode. But if you use it with windows, it comes with Adobe OCR software.
Note that if she gets this scanner, she won't be able to scan pages from a book without removing them first.
I see everyone complaining that it sounds like crap. Does it sound like crap because the melody sucks, or does it sound like crap because it just sounds like computer generated tones?
What if this thing was hooked up to a decent midi device, or some sort of device that had actual recorded sounds of the instruments? Maybe add some fret noise for certain types of guitars, etc...
I think something like this would actually be pretty cool to have set up on a machine, or as an appliance to provide quiet background music for public places, or when just sitting around the house. Have it randomly change settings and instruments, or allow you to define a certain set of parameters that you wanted to stay constant (types of instruments, pitch, whatever).
It could be your own personal composer that never played the same tune twice. I don't think this would sound half bad if it had decent reproductions of instrument sounds in it, the classical tab produced some interesting results when I changed the default from horns to strings and violins, and then increased the height to like 19 in the other tab.
What about setting up an app with this that communicates back to a central server. When you are just listening to it and you hear something you particularly like, you hit a button and it uploads the settings you've had over the past few minutes to the central server. All devices download those "higher" rated setting, make variations on them and play them. People re-upload the settings they like, and the process starts all over again. Would you eventually end up with "perfect" music?
A lot of people are dismissing this thing as crap, but it's really rather interesting.
You can dye plastic. RIT actually works on some types of plastic, and some autoparts stores sell dye meant for plastics. I'm sure you can find what you need by searching for it though.
Just dunk the whole damn thing in a bucket of dye and dry it off under a heat lamp for a couple of days. I've washed keyboards in the dishwasher before and dried them that way, and they still worked just fine.
My buddy went to iraq and got an HP business laptop. 3 year warranty with next day parts. Although when he called them, they said it takes them a couple days to get parts to Iraq.
Don't buy a crappy consumer model, order it from their website from the small or large business section to get what you need. Keyboards in the desert die every few months, and your cdrom won't last more than 2 months. Even if the thing is ruggedized, sand is still going to work its way in there and hose the thing.