The CEO's recent statements only reiterated something that everyone already knew, which was if an American company will happily fold to the Indian government you can be damn certain they are already well and truly in bed with their own..
BlackBerry Limited (formerly RIM) is a Canadian company. Apparently, they will fold to nearly any government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Probably not an issue for 99.99% of the population, but last time I checked, Untangle does not support IPv6 and has no plans on doing so. Also, Most of the interesting modules require a monthly subscription. I ran Untangle as a vm on an vsphere 5 hypervisor for a couple of years and it did the job ok. However, it is a cpu and memory hog which is surprising for being a firewall/security appliance. And probably the most annoying is the horrible user interface. They tried to make it look like a rack which is just silly. You'd be better off getting a Zyxell Zywall USG and mounting it in a real rack.
Since your question was not clear as to whether you wanted to connect to a vpn for outgoing traffic encryption, or to provide secure access to your home network, I will assume that you want both. I've got a zyxel usg50 at home and a usg100 at my office and they have been able to handle everything I have thrown at them. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0042.... I was also pleased that when the whole Heartbleed fiasco appeared, the zywall firmware was not vulnerable at all. Dual WAN connections are supported which lets me use both my AT&T Uverse and Charter Cable internet access with load balancing. The only negative that I can note are the several features on the zywall that require monthly subscriptions. But, since I don't use those, there is no loss to me.
In the past, I have built my own firewalls either on dedicated hardware, or as a vm on an esxi hypervisor, from Linux ipchains to netfilter to BSD pfSense. While I love to roll my own, having such a critical piece of infrastructure as dedicated hardware has made life much easier.
I guess everybody has their own communication priority level classification system. Of couse any arbitrarily detailed list could be made, so here's mine: 1) email is the preferred base 2) IM - critical yet tolerant to high latency. 3) Phone - emergencies, or other rare events that require full-duplex 4) Knock at door - what have my kids done now?
Whole Foods isn't pushing for institutionalized indoctrination like the Creationists and IDer's. There's no "Think of the children!" response to rile the media, and without media attention, we don't get upset about anything.
Not only would that remove what little logic is in the joke, it would offer too many options and include too many acronyms. Some jokes work only when provoking a thin-skinned group of near illiterate tools of Koch Industries.
How far away are we from the scenario where the Chinese Communist Party drums up rhetoric that the USA is an external existential threat to China and sells the idea to its rising middle class that the USA must and can be defeated by being outspent and by having its economy shattered - like the USA did to Russia with the Cold War?
I realize that Atlanta summers are hot and all, but when cars start combusting just because of the season, I think you've crossed a line where it no longer matters what's causing climate change.
So, are you saying I should upgrade from 23 to 40 channels on my CB? I was wondering if I should just go for something with upper and lower sidebands.:)
You can't declare chapter 11 bankruptcy unless you are already rich and do not need too to feed your fucking family.
Personal bankruptcy in the US is chapters 7 and 13. You have to be very poor to file chapter 7, which eliminates debt. Otherwise, you are force in to chapter 13, which is a payback plan. Either way, bankruptcy is certainly not restricted to the wealthy. More precisely, the wealthy are restricted (for obvious reasons) from personal bankruptcy, not the other way around. The chapter 11 that you mentioned is for businesses and corporations only.
The problem right now is that people are literally too broke to file bankruptcy - they can't afford the court costs.
I had lots of fun with that in the early 90's. The first time I used the tool, I created a virus with no payload - just replicating and... accidentally unleashed it on my employers network. Fortunately, being the only admin, I cleaned it up before anyone noticed - not that they would anyway. Still, thanks for the memory. And, my kids would never find such a thing on my computers! They have yet to break my encryption.
I'll start this off by pointing out that I never get mod points when I need them.
I'd like some help from you so that the citizens of the United States of America can have their government back from the corporations. Stop buying products and services from, and stop working for American OR international corporations. Short of armed revolution, denying the corporations their tribute and slaves is the only way to break their grip.
You are on the right track with your assertion, but you are being naive thinking that (1) only Americans are controlled by corporations, and (2) the problem is with only American corporations. Every citizen in the world that buys a coca-cola when they are thirsty has been controlled by these multi-national corporations. Why else would you believe that sugar water quenches thirst?
My 2 cents: If you are using an FXO card, then VM is a no-go. These cards require full attention from the PCI bus in order to operate properly. In particular, I use Digium's TDM800P with Echo Cancellation. There might be other cards out there that are better designed, but I am unaware of them.
However, if you are going straight VOIP using a SIP/IAX trunk and SIP phones, a VM will work just fine so long as you have adequate and stable (perferably redundant) internet access, and your network is properly subnetted or VLAN'd, with a healthy dose of QOS.
But, here's the real reason to not run your phone system on a VM: maintenance. Losing your phone system whenever you have to maintain the hypervisor sucks. So, keep your PBX on dedicated hardware so the only reason to ever bring it down is if there is something actually wrong with the phone system.
Oh yeah, if you are going to use Asterisk, learn dialplans etc and don't use Trixbox, AsteriskNow! or any other Asterisk-based distros. Roll your own and you will be rewarded - even if you have to initially hire a consultant to get your first dialplan. I've started using Debian Wheezy as a base for Asterisk installs. Its nice to have everything all ready for you in the repositories, and at the moment, Asterisk 1.8 LTS with DAHDI and dkms make updates a breeze.
P.S. Please excuse anything stupid - I'm in the middle of a chemo treatment and apparently, my polarity has been reversed.
I got a Volcano with the solid valve kit for xmas from my wife (she truly loves me) and I use it almost exclusively. But sometimes, the situation just calls for a rice paper. I also picked up a Magic Flight Launch Box which is great for on-the-go situations... which are occurring less and less as the months progress.
Thanks for the tip though - I've been spreading the word on vaporizers as well.
I was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer almost one year ago (7 Oct 2011) and have taken my share of oxycontin/oxycodone. All during chemotherapy, and especially after my surgery, I was taking oxycontin for base pain management, along with oxycodone for 'breakthrough' pain. My tumors responded to chemo wonderfully so that I was a candidate for surgery to have my primary tumor removed, colon ressected, metastatic liver tumors ablated, etc. At this point, I was taking 100mg oxycontin per day and an additional 50mg of oxycodone for 'breakthrough' pain. The narcotic effects slow down one's digestive system so much that I was also taking a shitload of stool softeners... pun intended.
By the time I finished my chemotherapy treatments (2 Jun 2012) I was thoroughly addicted to oxy. The only remaining pills I was taking were the pain meds and the stool softeners. I decided enough was enough and stopped taking oxycontin. It took a long week before I felt like myself again, escaping the cloudy buzz of oxy. Having gone through so much discomfort, I saw it as just another part of my recovery. Note: 'feeling like myself' is a relative term - after so much chemo, I wasn't myself anymore.
Now, my cancer is back and I'm starting chemo again this Thursday (20 Sep 2012). Having firsthand knowledge of addiction, kicking a 30+ year smoking habit and an oxy addiction, I will most likely resume taking oxy and get addicted all over again. Why? Because it helped me before. It will help me again. One week of mild discomfort from withdrawal symptoms is nothing compared to the pain and discomfort of chemotherapy.
Make each student install a proxy on their parents' internet connection and give the student access to the proxy from school. All other internet access is blocked. If the parents will not allow the proxy, the student will not have internet access at school.
As other have said, don't take chances with the accounting - bite the bullet and go quickbooks. When my wife and I started our law firm 20 years ago, we did our own accounting and it was not ideal at all. After the business grew we hired a CPA to take care of everything and that is where we moved to Quickbooks. Quickbooks makes it much easier to integrate with other businesses and government agencies than some homegrown set of spreadsheets and such. That being said, there's more to running a business than accounting.
You will need a phone system. Phone systems don't require much maintenance, but when they go down, you need to get them back up immediately. My best investment was to learn the open-source Asterisk PBX system. Take an old pc, get a card with some phone jacks for connecting your analog phone lines (Or get a voip provider assuming you have reliable and adequate bandwidth), go buy some phones that do SIP (I've been happy with Grandstream devices) and you're good to go. No need to run separate phone lines - just run ethernet and have data and phone.
Asterisk is a relatively easy system to program, and there are appliance distributions like AsteriskNow that greatly simplify things. Over the years, I've been able to integrate xmpp/jabber messaging, video messaging, integration with customer records for incoming calls, etc. I even integrated a front-door intercom that rings reception with the ability to unlock the door with the press of the star key. So far, every idea I have had for improving office communications has been readily handled by Asterisk. Asterisk is one of those amazing open source projects like Apache that provide such a robust framework while still maintaining simplicity of use.
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The CEO's recent statements only reiterated something that everyone already knew, which was if an American company will happily fold to the Indian government you can be damn certain they are already well and truly in bed with their own. .
BlackBerry Limited (formerly RIM) is a Canadian company. Apparently, they will fold to nearly any government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Probably not an issue for 99.99% of the population, but last time I checked, Untangle does not support IPv6 and has no plans on doing so. Also, Most of the interesting modules require a monthly subscription. I ran Untangle as a vm on an vsphere 5 hypervisor for a couple of years and it did the job ok. However, it is a cpu and memory hog which is surprising for being a firewall/security appliance. And probably the most annoying is the horrible user interface. They tried to make it look like a rack which is just silly. You'd be better off getting a Zyxell Zywall USG and mounting it in a real rack.
Since your question was not clear as to whether you wanted to connect to a vpn for outgoing traffic encryption, or to provide secure access to your home network, I will assume that you want both. I've got a zyxel usg50 at home and a usg100 at my office and they have been able to handle everything I have thrown at them. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0042.... I was also pleased that when the whole Heartbleed fiasco appeared, the zywall firmware was not vulnerable at all. Dual WAN connections are supported which lets me use both my AT&T Uverse and Charter Cable internet access with load balancing. The only negative that I can note are the several features on the zywall that require monthly subscriptions. But, since I don't use those, there is no loss to me.
In the past, I have built my own firewalls either on dedicated hardware, or as a vm on an esxi hypervisor, from Linux ipchains to netfilter to BSD pfSense. While I love to roll my own, having such a critical piece of infrastructure as dedicated hardware has made life much easier.
I guess everybody has their own communication priority level classification system. Of couse any arbitrarily detailed list could be made, so here's mine:
1) email is the preferred base
2) IM - critical yet tolerant to high latency.
3) Phone - emergencies, or other rare events that require full-duplex
4) Knock at door - what have my kids done now?
Whole Foods isn't pushing for institutionalized indoctrination like the Creationists and IDer's. There's no "Think of the children!" response to rile the media, and without media attention, we don't get upset about anything.
I mean, I can handle the concept... so long as there's just ONE multiverse.
Not only would that remove what little logic is in the joke, it would offer too many options and include too many acronyms. Some jokes work only when provoking a thin-skinned group of near illiterate tools of Koch Industries.
How far away are we from the scenario where the Chinese Communist Party drums up rhetoric that the USA is an external existential threat to China and sells the idea to its rising middle class that the USA must and can be defeated by being outspent and by having its economy shattered - like the USA did to Russia with the Cold War?
And, yes, I probably look as crazy as I sound.
I realize that Atlanta summers are hot and all, but when cars start combusting just because of the season, I think you've crossed a line where it no longer matters what's causing climate change.
I am surprised that anyone, including the Tea Party members themselves, believed that the Federal Government would negotiate with terrorists.
So, are you saying I should upgrade from 23 to 40 channels on my CB? I was wondering if I should just go for something with upper and lower sidebands. :)
Please explain to me what is a "naturalized FL native". Does it have anything to do with hanging chads?
You can't declare chapter 11 bankruptcy unless you are already rich and do not need too to feed your fucking family.
Personal bankruptcy in the US is chapters 7 and 13. You have to be very poor to file chapter 7, which eliminates debt. Otherwise, you are force in to chapter 13, which is a payback plan. Either way, bankruptcy is certainly not restricted to the wealthy. More precisely, the wealthy are restricted (for obvious reasons) from personal bankruptcy, not the other way around. The chapter 11 that you mentioned is for businesses and corporations only.
The problem right now is that people are literally too broke to file bankruptcy - they can't afford the court costs.
Obvious typ-o, but I feel compelled to make stupid jokes.
"300,000 6.8' screens"
My 60" TV isn't even 6'.
On a 6.8' eReader, you'd only have to turn the page once every hour or so depending on how fast you read.
Doesn't that come to over 386 miles of screen?
Put simply, multi-processing is not multi-threading
I had lots of fun with that in the early 90's. The first time I used the tool, I created a virus with no payload - just replicating and... accidentally unleashed it on my employers network. Fortunately, being the only admin, I cleaned it up before anyone noticed - not that they would anyway. Still, thanks for the memory. And, my kids would never find such a thing on my computers! They have yet to break my encryption.
8080A, Z-80, or 6502. When you've been 8-bit hacked, you stay hacked!
You and your new-fangled 16 bit processors. At least use an 8086, or even better, a moto 68k!
And, don't knock false teeth. Where else do you think I have my portable wifi hotspot installed?
I'll start this off by pointing out that I never get mod points when I need them.
I'd like some help from you so that the citizens of the United States of America can have their government back from the corporations. Stop buying products and services from, and stop working for American OR international corporations. Short of armed revolution, denying the corporations their tribute and slaves is the only way to break their grip.
You are on the right track with your assertion, but you are being naive thinking that (1) only Americans are controlled by corporations, and (2) the problem is with only American corporations. Every citizen in the world that buys a coca-cola when they are thirsty has been controlled by these multi-national corporations. Why else would you believe that sugar water quenches thirst?
My 2 cents: If you are using an FXO card, then VM is a no-go. These cards require full attention from the PCI bus in order to operate properly. In particular, I use Digium's TDM800P with Echo Cancellation. There might be other cards out there that are better designed, but I am unaware of them.
However, if you are going straight VOIP using a SIP/IAX trunk and SIP phones, a VM will work just fine so long as you have adequate and stable (perferably redundant) internet access, and your network is properly subnetted or VLAN'd, with a healthy dose of QOS.
But, here's the real reason to not run your phone system on a VM: maintenance. Losing your phone system whenever you have to maintain the hypervisor sucks. So, keep your PBX on dedicated hardware so the only reason to ever bring it down is if there is something actually wrong with the phone system.
Oh yeah, if you are going to use Asterisk, learn dialplans etc and don't use Trixbox, AsteriskNow! or any other Asterisk-based distros. Roll your own and you will be rewarded - even if you have to initially hire a consultant to get your first dialplan. I've started using Debian Wheezy as a base for Asterisk installs. Its nice to have everything all ready for you in the repositories, and at the moment, Asterisk 1.8 LTS with DAHDI and dkms make updates a breeze.
P.S. Please excuse anything stupid - I'm in the middle of a chemo treatment and apparently, my polarity has been reversed.
I got a Volcano with the solid valve kit for xmas from my wife (she truly loves me) and I use it almost exclusively. But sometimes, the situation just calls for a rice paper. I also picked up a Magic Flight Launch Box which is great for on-the-go situations... which are occurring less and less as the months progress.
Thanks for the tip though - I've been spreading the word on vaporizers as well.
Cannabis, of course, is ALWAYS an option :)
I was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer almost one year ago (7 Oct 2011) and have taken my share of oxycontin/oxycodone. All during chemotherapy, and especially after my surgery, I was taking oxycontin for base pain management, along with oxycodone for 'breakthrough' pain. My tumors responded to chemo wonderfully so that I was a candidate for surgery to have my primary tumor removed, colon ressected, metastatic liver tumors ablated, etc. At this point, I was taking 100mg oxycontin per day and an additional 50mg of oxycodone for 'breakthrough' pain. The narcotic effects slow down one's digestive system so much that I was also taking a shitload of stool softeners... pun intended.
By the time I finished my chemotherapy treatments (2 Jun 2012) I was thoroughly addicted to oxy. The only remaining pills I was taking were the pain meds and the stool softeners. I decided enough was enough and stopped taking oxycontin. It took a long week before I felt like myself again, escaping the cloudy buzz of oxy. Having gone through so much discomfort, I saw it as just another part of my recovery. Note: 'feeling like myself' is a relative term - after so much chemo, I wasn't myself anymore.
Now, my cancer is back and I'm starting chemo again this Thursday (20 Sep 2012). Having firsthand knowledge of addiction, kicking a 30+ year smoking habit and an oxy addiction, I will most likely resume taking oxy and get addicted all over again. Why? Because it helped me before. It will help me again. One week of mild discomfort from withdrawal symptoms is nothing compared to the pain and discomfort of chemotherapy.
Make each student install a proxy on their parents' internet connection and give the student access to the proxy from school. All other internet access is blocked. If the parents will not allow the proxy, the student will not have internet access at school.
I'm only half joking
I would respect the entertainment industry more if its writers didn't try to solve all plot problems with a Mussolini android.
No, you wouldn't
As other have said, don't take chances with the accounting - bite the bullet and go quickbooks. When my wife and I started our law firm 20 years ago, we did our own accounting and it was not ideal at all. After the business grew we hired a CPA to take care of everything and that is where we moved to Quickbooks. Quickbooks makes it much easier to integrate with other businesses and government agencies than some homegrown set of spreadsheets and such. That being said, there's more to running a business than accounting.
You will need a phone system. Phone systems don't require much maintenance, but when they go down, you need to get them back up immediately. My best investment was to learn the open-source Asterisk PBX system. Take an old pc, get a card with some phone jacks for connecting your analog phone lines (Or get a voip provider assuming you have reliable and adequate bandwidth), go buy some phones that do SIP (I've been happy with Grandstream devices) and you're good to go. No need to run separate phone lines - just run ethernet and have data and phone.
Asterisk is a relatively easy system to program, and there are appliance distributions like AsteriskNow that greatly simplify things. Over the years, I've been able to integrate xmpp/jabber messaging, video messaging, integration with customer records for incoming calls, etc. I even integrated a front-door intercom that rings reception with the ability to unlock the door with the press of the star key. So far, every idea I have had for improving office communications has been readily handled by Asterisk. Asterisk is one of those amazing open source projects like Apache that provide such a robust framework while still maintaining simplicity of use.