You should hold accountable forced services governments and the like. If people dont like what spews is doing they are free to stop using it, ask there ISP to stop using it or move to an ISP thats not using it. You should not be able to sue somebody so they have to listen to you.
Persoanly I filter at the client level rather than with a blackhole list. But my mail is at a hosting center incoming bandwith is free. I had a spammer steal an entire/19 from me this spring when it stoped being advertised. It got on some filters working around those filters when it went back up was trivial. Getting off the lists was not that complicated either. It took a few weeks and a bunch of emails but all told were talking about an hour of my time. Should I sue the RBL's for listing my/19 no should I sue the spammer that forged information and lied in writting yes. Actualy I got the local cops to put out an arrest warent for him it's as simple as a couple phone calls and a trip to a notery to send down the paperwork. Will they ever find the spammer probably not but I can hope.
The only problem with this is your analogy is flawed. If I had a car made by ford I can allow somebody to come over and make an exact copy of the ford or int eh case of MP3's a lesser copy of the car. It's perfectly legal at least it used to be. There are some issues with software and I'm sure piles of patent issues. These are all just business protections when you get down to it.
Persoanly it no form of capatilism I know and definatly not free market. Granted there are some things that need some protection for everybody's good it's just question of how long.
I think your looking at the worng person to go after them it's the insurance companies that should be pushing for this aka you want insurance for your network your premiums go up as you have less and less patches applied more open ports etc. Just make it cheaper to secure the system than not. This makes the MBA's and CPA's show security having value.
I dont think it's going to work there arent enough subcontrators to make overpriced parts as kickback to various senitors districts unlike the shuttle. Lets face it we got into the ugly monster because they wanted to spread a lock of kickbakcs around to various states to make the polititians happy. While a capsule could be built by a handfull of companies. I'm sure there is some plant smewhere churing out tiles for the shuttle at 10k a pop in an overglorified kiln.
Capsules work they dont even have to be reusable entirly. Get the shape down and center of gravity fixed and you could put whatever you want inside the cone. A standard instumentation, communications and envronmental package and your good. Look at the shuttle it has happy nice toilet, a pack of depends has to weight less than that and they bring them up for the EVA's anyway. They are astronaughts they can rough it for the few days at a time they are up there.
It's funny enough but more and more midsized equipment is designed to work with multiple types of plugs. I wont get into why friction connections on something as important as a power input are a bad idea. Anyway to the story section I was working on contract they were having all sorts of issues with there Cat 6509's (A faily large switch one of the biggest at the time 1999) they had just upgraded all there switching to them but they behaved odly. I went in got on console started looking though logs and saw no real issues besides the random restarts. The units had 2 2000+ watt PSU's each as they are designed to do PoE with a lot of ports you needs some power. Anyway I got to looking and they came with the low end Nema 5-20P plugs thats a 20 am version of your normal US 110 plug somebody had bent the pin a quarter turn so they would fit in a normal 110 outlet and then proceeded to plug the 2 PSU's into a single outlet. The boxes were browning out on office legs and having random restarts and crashes. MY fix was to order all new power cords with locking 240 connectors and get the eletrictions to run dedicated circuts to each plug via alternet routes/pannels and UPS systems. The moral of the story is if it says it needs something and you just spent 100k on it spend a little to get it done right instead of bodging it with a leatherman.
Thats all and great that you want Apple to move over to supporting commodity x86 hardware but besides making you happy why would they bother? The sell based upon form and design. Macs in general are esteticaly pleasing to at least some people. OSx on some random P4 would cripple there support staff. If you can make money selling propiatary hardware and software combo's why not it's cheaper to support your hardware profit margins are yours to decide. It took apple years to migrate over to IDE disks why IDE was PC junk and SCSI was just that much better eventaly IDE matured enough that it fit so they moved. Supporting a new peice of hardware when you supply the OS with the box and can spec a minimum revision isnt that hard. Now look at PC's it the reverse everybody writting OS's is working around a hundred different hardware design flaws, bugs and general messups not of there own design. As much as I'm not an MS fanboy this has had to contribute to the PC blue screen of death. Trying to make another companies product look good isn't Apples core business so why should they bother?
It's all about the tuner you use those junk ones that direct tv sells directy are just that junk for the same price you can get a somewhat better RCA moddel with more responsive functions and picture in a window while using the guide. Persoanly spend a couple hundred and get a direct tivo the signal is not degraded like normal Tivo replay tv etc and thats makes a huge difference on larger and or clearer tv's. Granted you have the digital artifacts thats just the fact of life. Someday they will move to a better mpeg like 4 without reducing the bitrates to much.
Yes I dead the article 72 hours for a lost building is pretty bad. It's not that hard to implement plans that have the equipment back up in minutes to hours.
OK I just may be jaded I work in a secor that thinks 5 minutes is earth shattering ammounts of downtime. 72 hours would ahve me everybody that works for me and some C level guys fired at the companies I work for. First things first what did they do wrong backups stored on site this is page 2 of a disaster recovery howto backup need to be stored onsite and remote, they also need to be verified as functional (yes I am that manager that insists that servers be restored and checked for functionality on the backup hardware during a work window) From the story it wasent even client data as much as it was there billing DB and other office information. When will people learn that information makes a lot of businesses and needs to be protected a nominal cost to do proper backups and house them remotly even if it's in a bank vault a few towns over perferably the other coast. Satalite uplinks can provide decent ammounts of bandwith in a pinch though the latency is horid.
Ever think that an U320 single channel raid controler paire with 10 or 15k drives along with battery backed up cache isn't in the same ballpark as the home users or small buisiness cheesy raid solution? Only the higher end cards like 3ware support hot swap. None of them support hot add. Dynamic reconfiguration without dataloss this is something that Linux dosent do right in software (yes I know there is a tool, the tool does function unfortunaly it dosent handle any sort of errors gracefully and it will loose data if it errors so I dont call it working yet) You just on the higher end of the price to performace curve be happy:)
BTW if you want a realy fast and reliable IDE raid try apple for 10k your looking at a couple TB's of fiber channel attached externel IDE raid that works.
OK point 2 I dont know about either way besides I've had the FBI show up many times investigating hacking attempts. But to ISP's not doing there job blocking DOS attacks I find that nearly ammusing. Every real tier 1 I have worked with in the last 5 years has had an automated method to backhole via BGP comunity groups it's not allways well documented ot advertised but it's there just ask. It's pretty straight forward you just send up routes you dont want to get traffic from this could easily be sourced from your IDS. If your having an issue where you just need to take traffic to a specific IP offline thats also easy via BGP. Beyond what can be done inside a routing table do you expect a Tier 1 to be running firewalling code? Thats a lot of CPU time on older routers. Sure inside a managed datacenter you could reasonably expect them to be able to put some lines of ACl on your port hopeully they allready have some anyway.
Ok dial home when sick this is an important function last I checked I like to know when drives fail. It's not a question of is it important I just hate being lied to, and in the case of the laptop I would call that thing a bit more than a straight laptop with a propiatary looking PC-Card along with ethernet.
I call it a secret tool when they dont provide it when they drop of a testing rig. Twice they have done this to me. It's not exectly like it's easy to find or well marked either I had to get out a step ladder to find it. Everybody else has allways given me a key and been more than willing to take me on a tour of the hardware EMC never seems to be willing to open up the box even under NDA is this redundancy through obscurity?
You install a decent array of hardware I've never had as many issues than with EMC not generaly technical but straight forward PR lies and half truths. How many times has Sun given you the quote unquote 100% redundant system and have you found it lacking? Or NetApp for that matter. HP has never wanted to come to the table (Compaq has plenty of times) for a side by side test nor has HDS at least in my experience so I cant talk to there gear.
BTW I dont manage these systems I test them meaning they come in I provide a spec to be met work with the provider to meet it. I wont get into technical issues those are covered under NDA's.
In 1995 there was a call for 100BT links trust me I was there were were doing it earlier than that. In 2002 GigE over copper was there and my persoanly first installation of GigE to the desktop was 1998. So far the PC could arguably handle them GigE pushed the PCI bus to breaking and 10GigE will do the same for PCI-X for a few years to come. Now granted I wholeheartedly agree that untill a lot of issues are worked out you wont be seeing fiber the the normal desktop.
As an asside I think the funniest part of current desktop GigE is the switches support full speed but I know of only one card that can get even close to those speeds.
iSCSI yea arent we all thrilled now I can have slower disk performace but be able to put the storage on another contenent and reuse my existing IP infrastructure to do it. Realy it's just IP shared block devices hopefully with some hardware support. Add it onto a nonblocking GigE network and you can get speeds in the same order as todays hard drives.
Now comes the bad there are tendency's for networks to have a lot of jitter especialy when going over a wan unlike say uning FC over long reach fiber and or DWDM. It's not the most horid issue on the planet. It's also a half solution you still need to get multiple read and writer filesystems that work well for iSCSI to realy function as something more than a centralized box of disks.
On a personal note I'm sorry you work for EMC maybe they will get over there own PR and build something usefull. For some reasons there gear never performs as sold I have persoanly ripped there gear out of 4 company's now to be replaced by faster more reliable cheaper gear. I think my favorite bit of EMC PR was yes this unit is fully redundant they drop of the test box to my lab and dont leave the keys besides some fiber coming out of the cab's. After finding the super secret tool to pry the thing open only to discover the worlds first fully redundant laptop managing the thing. Just my 2 cents maybe they have gotten better in the last 18 months I allways test them when they come to bid maybe next time.
You know sending an email to postmaster@ might not be a bad feature. It gives people notice and I persoanly dont care if they arent reading there postmaster email well then they are violating RFC anyway. A simple note with next steps (namly the ISP in question).
There is still just a much simpler answer throttle outgoing email connections at least to new customers. Throttle also provided a good place to check outgoing mail (hey unencryed email is a postcard treat it as such besides your ISP can legaly look at anything your doing through them to keep there network working, just has some slight carrier status issues)
LOL do you relize just how trivial it is to wall in a new client server? Generaly it's just a question of routing all outgoing traffic destined to port 25 to a proxy. That proxy has a few rules and counters. The guy that sets up a new box in 5 minutes gets on and generaly dosent notice anything because he's not breaking the rules (fairly high rules like a thousand messages a day, 100 messages and hour 10 messages a minute) leave things like this for a few months and then let his mail go out normaly. This isn't rocket science it's a bit of load on your router and a box to forward email.
Now your talking about making a wholy new and incompatable medium (backwards at least) It would make more sence and save everybody headaches to just encode things from 3 trinary symbols to 3 binary symbols. Base anything can be easily converted to base 2 and back. The only place a new method of storing date would be needed would be memory due to the added latency of conversion.
Beyond that space is space Flash is using a Quad endoding method because of effeciency to encode binary data it's not complicated at all to do remember you have to end on a 512 byte alignment anyway so they just have 256 symbols to do the same thing. Especialy in mordern flash you realy dont talk to the core anymore between different encoding methods and methods to make them wear evenly. With everything but RAM access latency isnt in the same scale and a little logic to encode and decode wouldent be noticed (actualy a Trinary or above encoding would increase density and thus speed for rotational media)
It's not even that hard. Just insert Spam into the message before it gets signed but after it was composed. I doubt it would be to hard just take over the signature function of outlook.
1. They buzz. I'm sorry this is my primary complaint they make noise granted a lot of people dont notice it but it's there.
2. Generaly incompatable with dimmers. I have about 3 lights that arent on dimmers granted some are compatable but they also have an increaded price.
3. X10 they just have issues. I know it's due to the nasty load they have at startup. Unfortunatly there is no other real solution I have found to control every light inside the house individualy with presets.
4. Light Hue most CF's I have seen have a distint color to them. White or more perferably a slighly yellow to match the sun tint is perferable. The tint also needs to stay consistant across the full range of dimming. Using comercial tinting gell is just a bit overboard and looks ugly physicaly on most lamps (works great on overhead cans) plus this stuff has a life expectancy and can be a fire hazard (dost seem to be to bad with CF due to low heat)
5. Small range of avalible lumens output in retain store's. For doing things like uplighting a cathedral ceiling its nice to have some higher output sources. Now granted indirect lighting is inefficiant but it looks a lot better and is easier on my eyes at least significantly reducing glare.
As for good things there power consumption and heat generation is lower (with all the lights on in my living room at 100% the heat does not kick on in winter for that zone till it's particualy cold out) they also have a long lifespan that is usefull when you have lights 10+ in the air with no easy access except for a ladder.
LED technology seems to have some of these issues licked. They dont dim very well but thats easy to correct in software (yes my house has a centralized controler your on slashdot dosent yours:)
Just a clarification when using a direct Tivo no phone connection is needed the Tivo gets all it's info from the bird. The only thing the phone line needs to be connected for is to charge back for pay per view. Granted it will bitch every now and then but no features are lost.
As an asside MythTV is a good looking application that needs a hardware platform to run on a PC in your living room is general not acceptable nor are long runs of cable to remote the PC (I counted a minimum of 4 cables to get it right one for video, one for digital audio one for USB or firewire for a DVD-R remoted in the room and possibly a serial cable) Tivo is a decent platform only needing to be put inside something for sound proofing to get rid of the anoying HD and fan hum. A silent PC with no hard drive and recording to NAS somewhere else might be a decent solution.
Well I'm all for the XBOX taking yet another dive. Otherwise do your realy expect something more than 170 for 25 a month when quality bandwith costs about 80 a meg at the pipe? DSL and cable should be pushing for a more capable routing protocal than BGPv4 thats when we can get away from the Teir one providers that get to set the prices for bandwith. Once small DSL providers can get meshed together with tier twos and have a lot of routing policys and thats sensitive to internal bandwith. Thats the day when all the providers in a given town will start connecting to each other so you get a more realalisting speeds that get slower the farther out you go.
If the Data is important a server in the same building will not do one tornado flood or other natural disaster will destroy them. But your still forgetting revisions to have a good backup policy you need to keep revisions otherwise it's only protecting from physical drive failure. Generaly you have a retention policy to keep data after it's been deleted or changed there is nothing like being able to go back to the file as it was say 1 year ago to check for differences. Especialy when that year old file has been locked up in a safty deposit box with the read only flag set and you have an auditable list of people that have been around it.
For personal use most banks will give you a safty deposit box cheaply enough to free pick a banch thats far enough away from your house to cover a flood (if a Nuke goes off forget it last thing you need is your MP3 colection)
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You should hold accountable forced services governments and the like. If people dont like what spews is doing they are free to stop using it, ask there ISP to stop using it or move to an ISP thats not using it. You should not be able to sue somebody so they have to listen to you.
/19 from me this spring when it stoped being advertised. It got on some filters working around those filters when it went back up was trivial. Getting off the lists was not that complicated either. It took a few weeks and a bunch of emails but all told were talking about an hour of my time. Should I sue the RBL's for listing my /19 no should I sue the spammer that forged information and lied in writting yes. Actualy I got the local cops to put out an arrest warent for him it's as simple as a couple phone calls and a trip to a notery to send down the paperwork. Will they ever find the spammer probably not but I can hope.
Persoanly I filter at the client level rather than with a blackhole list. But my mail is at a hosting center incoming bandwith is free. I had a spammer steal an entire
The only problem with this is your analogy is flawed. If I had a car made by ford I can allow somebody to come over and make an exact copy of the ford or int eh case of MP3's a lesser copy of the car. It's perfectly legal at least it used to be. There are some issues with software and I'm sure piles of patent issues. These are all just business protections when you get down to it.
Persoanly it no form of capatilism I know and definatly not free market. Granted there are some things that need some protection for everybody's good it's just question of how long.
I think your looking at the worng person to go after them it's the insurance companies that should be pushing for this aka you want insurance for your network your premiums go up as you have less and less patches applied more open ports etc. Just make it cheaper to secure the system than not. This makes the MBA's and CPA's show security having value.
I dont think it's going to work there arent enough subcontrators to make overpriced parts as kickback to various senitors districts unlike the shuttle. Lets face it we got into the ugly monster because they wanted to spread a lock of kickbakcs around to various states to make the polititians happy. While a capsule could be built by a handfull of companies. I'm sure there is some plant smewhere churing out tiles for the shuttle at 10k a pop in an overglorified kiln.
Capsules work they dont even have to be reusable entirly. Get the shape down and center of gravity fixed and you could put whatever you want inside the cone. A standard instumentation, communications and envronmental package and your good. Look at the shuttle it has happy nice toilet, a pack of depends has to weight less than that and they bring them up for the EVA's anyway. They are astronaughts they can rough it for the few days at a time they are up there.
It's funny enough but more and more midsized equipment is designed to work with multiple types of plugs. I wont get into why friction connections on something as important as a power input are a bad idea. Anyway to the story section I was working on contract they were having all sorts of issues with there Cat 6509's (A faily large switch one of the biggest at the time 1999) they had just upgraded all there switching to them but they behaved odly. I went in got on console started looking though logs and saw no real issues besides the random restarts. The units had 2 2000+ watt PSU's each as they are designed to do PoE with a lot of ports you needs some power. Anyway I got to looking and they came with the low end Nema 5-20P plugs thats a 20 am version of your normal US 110 plug somebody had bent the pin a quarter turn so they would fit in a normal 110 outlet and then proceeded to plug the 2 PSU's into a single outlet. The boxes were browning out on office legs and having random restarts and crashes. MY fix was to order all new power cords with locking 240 connectors and get the eletrictions to run dedicated circuts to each plug via alternet routes/pannels and UPS systems. The moral of the story is if it says it needs something and you just spent 100k on it spend a little to get it done right instead of bodging it with a leatherman.
Thats all and great that you want Apple to move over to supporting commodity x86 hardware but besides making you happy why would they bother? The sell based upon form and design. Macs in general are esteticaly pleasing to at least some people. OSx on some random P4 would cripple there support staff. If you can make money selling propiatary hardware and software combo's why not it's cheaper to support your hardware profit margins are yours to decide. It took apple years to migrate over to IDE disks why IDE was PC junk and SCSI was just that much better eventaly IDE matured enough that it fit so they moved. Supporting a new peice of hardware when you supply the OS with the box and can spec a minimum revision isnt that hard. Now look at PC's it the reverse everybody writting OS's is working around a hundred different hardware design flaws, bugs and general messups not of there own design. As much as I'm not an MS fanboy this has had to contribute to the PC blue screen of death. Trying to make another companies product look good isn't Apples core business so why should they bother?
It's all about the tuner you use those junk ones that direct tv sells directy are just that junk for the same price you can get a somewhat better RCA moddel with more responsive functions and picture in a window while using the guide. Persoanly spend a couple hundred and get a direct tivo the signal is not degraded like normal Tivo replay tv etc and thats makes a huge difference on larger and or clearer tv's. Granted you have the digital artifacts thats just the fact of life. Someday they will move to a better mpeg like 4 without reducing the bitrates to much.
Yes I dead the article 72 hours for a lost building is pretty bad. It's not that hard to implement plans that have the equipment back up in minutes to hours.
OK I just may be jaded I work in a secor that thinks 5 minutes is earth shattering ammounts of downtime. 72 hours would ahve me everybody that works for me and some C level guys fired at the companies I work for. First things first what did they do wrong backups stored on site this is page 2 of a disaster recovery howto backup need to be stored onsite and remote, they also need to be verified as functional (yes I am that manager that insists that servers be restored and checked for functionality on the backup hardware during a work window) From the story it wasent even client data as much as it was there billing DB and other office information. When will people learn that information makes a lot of businesses and needs to be protected a nominal cost to do proper backups and house them remotly even if it's in a bank vault a few towns over perferably the other coast. Satalite uplinks can provide decent ammounts of bandwith in a pinch though the latency is horid.
Ever think that an U320 single channel raid controler paire with 10 or 15k drives along with battery backed up cache isn't in the same ballpark as the home users or small buisiness cheesy raid solution? Only the higher end cards like 3ware support hot swap. None of them support hot add. Dynamic reconfiguration without dataloss this is something that Linux dosent do right in software (yes I know there is a tool, the tool does function unfortunaly it dosent handle any sort of errors gracefully and it will loose data if it errors so I dont call it working yet) You just on the higher end of the price to performace curve be happy :)
BTW if you want a realy fast and reliable IDE raid try apple for 10k your looking at a couple TB's of fiber channel attached externel IDE raid that works.
OK point 2 I dont know about either way besides I've had the FBI show up many times investigating hacking attempts. But to ISP's not doing there job blocking DOS attacks I find that nearly ammusing. Every real tier 1 I have worked with in the last 5 years has had an automated method to backhole via BGP comunity groups it's not allways well documented ot advertised but it's there just ask. It's pretty straight forward you just send up routes you dont want to get traffic from this could easily be sourced from your IDS. If your having an issue where you just need to take traffic to a specific IP offline thats also easy via BGP. Beyond what can be done inside a routing table do you expect a Tier 1 to be running firewalling code? Thats a lot of CPU time on older routers. Sure inside a managed datacenter you could reasonably expect them to be able to put some lines of ACl on your port hopeully they allready have some anyway.
Bayonet nut coupler
Or Banana nut coupler
Ok dial home when sick this is an important function last I checked I like to know when drives fail. It's not a question of is it important I just hate being lied to, and in the case of the laptop I would call that thing a bit more than a straight laptop with a propiatary looking PC-Card along with ethernet.
I call it a secret tool when they dont provide it when they drop of a testing rig. Twice they have done this to me. It's not exectly like it's easy to find or well marked either I had to get out a step ladder to find it. Everybody else has allways given me a key and been more than willing to take me on a tour of the hardware EMC never seems to be willing to open up the box even under NDA is this redundancy through obscurity?
You install a decent array of hardware I've never had as many issues than with EMC not generaly technical but straight forward PR lies and half truths. How many times has Sun given you the quote unquote 100% redundant system and have you found it lacking? Or NetApp for that matter. HP has never wanted to come to the table (Compaq has plenty of times) for a side by side test nor has HDS at least in my experience so I cant talk to there gear.
BTW I dont manage these systems I test them meaning they come in I provide a spec to be met work with the provider to meet it. I wont get into technical issues those are covered under NDA's.
In 1995 there was a call for 100BT links trust me I was there were were doing it earlier than that. In 2002 GigE over copper was there and my persoanly first installation of GigE to the desktop was 1998. So far the PC could arguably handle them GigE pushed the PCI bus to breaking and 10GigE will do the same for PCI-X for a few years to come. Now granted I wholeheartedly agree that untill a lot of issues are worked out you wont be seeing fiber the the normal desktop.
As an asside I think the funniest part of current desktop GigE is the switches support full speed but I know of only one card that can get even close to those speeds.
iSCSI yea arent we all thrilled now I can have slower disk performace but be able to put the storage on another contenent and reuse my existing IP infrastructure to do it. Realy it's just IP shared block devices hopefully with some hardware support. Add it onto a nonblocking GigE network and you can get speeds in the same order as todays hard drives.
Now comes the bad there are tendency's for networks to have a lot of jitter especialy when going over a wan unlike say uning FC over long reach fiber and or DWDM. It's not the most horid issue on the planet. It's also a half solution you still need to get multiple read and writer filesystems that work well for iSCSI to realy function as something more than a centralized box of disks.
On a personal note I'm sorry you work for EMC maybe they will get over there own PR and build something usefull. For some reasons there gear never performs as sold I have persoanly ripped there gear out of 4 company's now to be replaced by faster more reliable cheaper gear. I think my favorite bit of EMC PR was yes this unit is fully redundant they drop of the test box to my lab and dont leave the keys besides some fiber coming out of the cab's. After finding the super secret tool to pry the thing open only to discover the worlds first fully redundant laptop managing the thing. Just my 2 cents maybe they have gotten better in the last 18 months I allways test them when they come to bid maybe next time.
You know sending an email to postmaster@ might not be a bad feature. It gives people notice and I persoanly dont care if they arent reading there postmaster email well then they are violating RFC anyway. A simple note with next steps (namly the ISP in question).
There is still just a much simpler answer throttle outgoing email connections at least to new customers. Throttle also provided a good place to check outgoing mail (hey unencryed email is a postcard treat it as such besides your ISP can legaly look at anything your doing through them to keep there network working, just has some slight carrier status issues)
LOL do you relize just how trivial it is to wall in a new client server? Generaly it's just a question of routing all outgoing traffic destined to port 25 to a proxy. That proxy has a few rules and counters. The guy that sets up a new box in 5 minutes gets on and generaly dosent notice anything because he's not breaking the rules (fairly high rules like a thousand messages a day, 100 messages and hour 10 messages a minute) leave things like this for a few months and then let his mail go out normaly. This isn't rocket science it's a bit of load on your router and a box to forward email.
Now your talking about making a wholy new and incompatable medium (backwards at least) It would make more sence and save everybody headaches to just encode things from 3 trinary symbols to 3 binary symbols. Base anything can be easily converted to base 2 and back. The only place a new method of storing date would be needed would be memory due to the added latency of conversion.
Beyond that space is space Flash is using a Quad endoding method because of effeciency to encode binary data it's not complicated at all to do remember you have to end on a 512 byte alignment anyway so they just have 256 symbols to do the same thing. Especialy in mordern flash you realy dont talk to the core anymore between different encoding methods and methods to make them wear evenly. With everything but RAM access latency isnt in the same scale and a little logic to encode and decode wouldent be noticed (actualy a Trinary or above encoding would increase density and thus speed for rotational media)
It's not even that hard. Just insert Spam into the message before it gets signed but after it was composed. I doubt it would be to hard just take over the signature function of outlook.
It is teh DeCSS code. CSS is so tirvial of an encryption scheme that you can effectivly make the decoder out of a big prime number and gzip.
General problems with CF lighting
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1. They buzz. I'm sorry this is my primary complaint they make noise granted a lot of people dont notice it but it's there.
2. Generaly incompatable with dimmers. I have about 3 lights that arent on dimmers granted some are compatable but they also have an increaded price.
3. X10 they just have issues. I know it's due to the nasty load they have at startup. Unfortunatly there is no other real solution I have found to control every light inside the house individualy with presets.
4. Light Hue most CF's I have seen have a distint color to them. White or more perferably a slighly yellow to match the sun tint is perferable. The tint also needs to stay consistant across the full range of dimming. Using comercial tinting gell is just a bit overboard and looks ugly physicaly on most lamps (works great on overhead cans) plus this stuff has a life expectancy and can be a fire hazard (dost seem to be to bad with CF due to low heat)
5. Small range of avalible lumens output in retain store's. For doing things like uplighting a cathedral ceiling its nice to have some higher output sources. Now granted indirect lighting is inefficiant but it looks a lot better and is easier on my eyes at least significantly reducing glare.
As for good things there power consumption and heat generation is lower (with all the lights on in my living room at 100% the heat does not kick on in winter for that zone till it's particualy cold out) they also have a long lifespan that is usefull when you have lights 10+ in the air with no easy access except for a ladder.
LED technology seems to have some of these issues licked. They dont dim very well but thats easy to correct in software (yes my house has a centralized controler your on slashdot dosent yours
Just a general FYI without a domain file and print sharing can be ugly.
Just a clarification when using a direct Tivo no phone connection is needed the Tivo gets all it's info from the bird. The only thing the phone line needs to be connected for is to charge back for pay per view. Granted it will bitch every now and then but no features are lost.
As an asside MythTV is a good looking application that needs a hardware platform to run on a PC in your living room is general not acceptable nor are long runs of cable to remote the PC (I counted a minimum of 4 cables to get it right one for video, one for digital audio one for USB or firewire for a DVD-R remoted in the room and possibly a serial cable) Tivo is a decent platform only needing to be put inside something for sound proofing to get rid of the anoying HD and fan hum. A silent PC with no hard drive and recording to NAS somewhere else might be a decent solution.
Well I'm all for the XBOX taking yet another dive. Otherwise do your realy expect something more than 170 for 25 a month when quality bandwith costs about 80 a meg at the pipe? DSL and cable should be pushing for a more capable routing protocal than BGPv4 thats when we can get away from the Teir one providers that get to set the prices for bandwith. Once small DSL providers can get meshed together with tier twos and have a lot of routing policys and thats sensitive to internal bandwith. Thats the day when all the providers in a given town will start connecting to each other so you get a more realalisting speeds that get slower the farther out you go.
If the Data is important a server in the same building will not do one tornado flood or other natural disaster will destroy them. But your still forgetting revisions to have a good backup policy you need to keep revisions otherwise it's only protecting from physical drive failure. Generaly you have a retention policy to keep data after it's been deleted or changed there is nothing like being able to go back to the file as it was say 1 year ago to check for differences. Especialy when that year old file has been locked up in a safty deposit box with the read only flag set and you have an auditable list of people that have been around it.
For personal use most banks will give you a safty deposit box cheaply enough to free pick a banch thats far enough away from your house to cover a flood (if a Nuke goes off forget it last thing you need is your MP3 colection)