Wish i had your confidence there... The last several Dells I've helped setup and get running had NO AGP slots on the mianboard! Think i'm BSing? Crack open one of their mid- to low-range models and take a peek inside. You can see where the AGP slot is supposed to go, BUT! The slot itself was never installed!
This is one reason why I urge my clients that buy Dells to overbuild their processor and memory so that Dell will be forced to put in the nicer boards instead of the low-grade POS Intels that they seem to love.
The other reason is that I don't want to hear them bitching that their system is slow 6 months down the road..
That, actually holds true in this day and age. Usually the time to when the law would catch wind of something like this and act would be like, a couple of months, maybe three. These days... ehhhhhhhh, more like 2-4 weeks, tops!
The ack-acks have the law enforcement groups running their donut-encrusted behinds off on on things like these, so the best way to let others know, is not to be hasty about it.
Swelled egos + big mouths = big trouble down the road.
Welcome to the club.. We've had to take the ClueBat to our ILEC and CLEC's more than a few times over the time in which we had leased our HiCap analogs and PRI circuits from Verizoned and SBClueless. Each time a circuit would go down, we'd call them, and either they would say it would take 2-3 days, or if it were on a weekend as when it break often, SBChumps woulden't even answer the phone!
The only T1 provider in which we came to love those last couple of years was Sprintlink. They were helpful, nicer'n any other NOC we talked with, and ACTUALLY got the problems solved before things got way out of hand. They had a redheaded southern gal answering the phone, so PLEASE be nice, cuz if you hit any of her buttons better be wearing asbestos earmuffs, cuz yer telephone is going to melt!
We did a 3am relocating of our gear, including the router. Everyone was notified, save for Sprint. Ten minutes into the move, the phone rings and it's their NOC, wondering why our router was not responding to their regular inquiries. We told them we were moving stuff about and it was unplugged for about 5 minutes before you called us. Ah well, these days it's leasing the circuits from wholesale CLEC providers. Pricey, but are dependable and fast.
I checked the specs on the DLink unit and i'm pleased that it's power requirements only need 12 volts. This means you can hook it up to a large lead-acid or gelcell battery, and it can run outdoors for about 3 to 10 days, depending on how big of a battery you use. Now if only they had infared LEDs wired in with the cam.. That means that you'll have to bash together a setup where you can slew the camera to it's stop, hitting a switch to turn on the lights, then slew it the other way to the opposing stop to cut them off.. A great way to check for deer or other critters in the backyard.
Read the follow-on colonial marines handbook that explains some more into the so-called Caterpillar walking forklift. The unit uses gryoscopic stabilization similiar to what segways use, only that the gyros "uncouple" when the user tries to walk with it, causing the unit to become naturally unstable, but within tolerances that are norm with walking. I mean, after all, we humans are naturally unstable while standing.
As for working in the soft soil or mud with them, forget it! The PSI/Square inch of pressure that the footpads would apply to the ground it walks on, especially when it's under load, the walker would sink up to it's knees in a heartbeat!
No, these units would be built for in-house, or established sites, where there the terrain is level and firm enough so that the mechas would be able to move about without worry of sinking or toppling over.
IF the jokers try to make her sign a commitment, then they are full of crap. Under the utility regs, she does NOT have to sign ANY form of commitment whatsoever for basic telephone service. For any extra features (call waiting, call ID, etc.) there may be a commitment requested then and only then.
I had sbc drop a 6 pair lead-in from a utility pole to the home i'm in right now, about 100 yards worth. The contractor had to run the bloody thing under a fence, not to mention tunneling under TWO concrete driveways! I didn't have to pay a single red cent for any of that extra work that they did.
You get someone that's wise to their ways to help you out, you can make your telco dance to the tune that you set, instead of the other way around.
Don't mean a dammed thing... Telephones come under the definition of UTILITY. Meaning, that the CLEC has no option that if a client wants telephone service installed, they have to run the dammed wires to the utility drop at the property line, no matter if it means 2 miles off of the road or 20. Then it's up to the client to finish the run to his home via any method that he/she can find, by either running the lead-in via poles or bury the bloody thing. The telephone company CANNOT deny ANYONE service based upon location, that is FEDERAL Law.
If they bitch, take it up the ladder to the next in command, and keep it up until you find a joker that will help you out.
If that fails, call, email, or write to your state PUC and drop the hammer on the telco's head, HARD! These money-grubbing weasels will try to wriggle out of ANY money-losing opportunity that they can, even at the expense of a customers life.
They got a oh-so nice link that says unsubscribe, but when you click on it, they ignore it? Spammy then turns around and increases the sendto rate by 200%, resell the address, and oh, by the way, we'll joejob your account once we're tired of filling it up.
In the eyes of the Law, this constiutes Willfull Fraud, and more than a few other items in the United States Legal Code. Spelled out, means JAILTIME!
Done that, seen the paperwork.. Back in the 70's when Ultralight aircraft first hit the scene with powered hang gliders, the FAA pretty much did the same thing. Those laws were fair and just for the classification of that type of aircraft. And look where those planes went! We got paraplanes, ultralights that look like real homebuilt planes, we got law enforcement ultralights, even cropdusters built on the cheap!
This is just a paper tiger that congress grinds out whenever a new invention really shows its potential.
Can't do that, NEC electrial code prohibits installation of a 2nd ground spike for household systems. This creates what is called a floating ground, effectively causing a major shock hazard.
No master electrician worth his salt would go and do that, but whould be more than glad to help you out with your problem... Odds are that the older wiring has issues with grounding and is in need of proper grounding... Call a electrician and let him deal with it.
The key phrase here is efficient conversion of water into Hydrogen.
Oh, I agree that electolysis is great, but it takes power to make it happen, but it's a inefficient process.
The other way is by using chemicals.. I had the name of the compound that creates hydrogen at the tip of my tougne for years since my last chemistry lesson, but once agian, the key phrase efficiency in energy useage for the cracking of water, rears it's ugly head.
The use of nuclear reactions to crack water shows promise, but neutron activation of the water must be moderated and contained so that contamination will be kept to the utmost minimal levels.
Remember, you can make any gas radioactive by pouring enough rems into it to make the it ionize. The repair crew of the nuclear missile submarine K-12, AKA, The Widowmaker, saw the ionization firsthand. Not to mention the helicopter crews that dropped carbon and boron on the exposed reactor core at Chernobyl...
I'm admin for a optical shop and when they asked for root, thats just what I told him.. I also said "That IF I EVER allow you root, it will be through remote secure desktop and I WILL be watching your every move! AND, if you do get stupid with that mouse I will pull the plug and call your boss, is that clear??"
They quickly agreed, since I got layered security in place (router, software, NAT, etc..), they'll have the devil's own time just making the attempt since it'll take me an half hour just to configure the network to allow for tunneled access.
Pure and simple. Oh, and forge a contract in stone saying that if you do allow access, you wash your hands of any fuckup that they perform, since it's their own dammed fault in the first place. And ah, if they do fuck it up, both contracts are broken, their boss gets a nice call from your attorneys, PLUS your own boss, etc, etc.... IE, Things MIGHT get a little ugly for the vendor in question.
IF they want your business, they will have to cooperate with you in order to maintain a good business relationship.
I like this idea.. The CPU would need a kickstart from a battery pack to start work, then as the BTUs rise, the cycle would change over and the Stirling would pick up the load, charging the "starter" batteries, and providing power.
Quite efficient, Stirlings.. The Aussies are using two to drive a unmanned station down in Antarctica. Pricey tho.. 10,000 AU$ each for a pair of 1500w units.
This so-called professor just pretty much repeated, verbatim, what the PR and HR depts at EA have been touting all along. He simply just wrapped it up in a nutshell and put a coat of Turtle Wax on it.
Hrmf.. It might as well have been one of the 3-inch ringbinders of PR policies and procedures (Vol. 1-100) published, instead of this guide that's full of sickly-sweetness that every PR PHB, peon, manager, and interirm aspires to.
It just makes me sick seeing this tome that he wrote. *trashes it and washes his hands.*
IMHO, Odds are that the students in his classes have to do to pass is simply parrot back to him what he is teaching.
Done that.. Pissed off more than a few clients with the security policies, blown a couple of budgets by a little bit. But it's still secure by overbuilding, securing the systems with personal passwords, set to expire in 30 day intervals. Education, education, education... The current headache with the 'wares was simply resolved by implementing a HOSTS file into each terminal via administrative batching. This was done within a hour and the infected machines were then reimaged with clean OS's. No slouch this nut is. As I said, i've pissed off a few folks, but they learned lessons the hard way not to break the NSA's rules and you don't wind up with a blank computer, or worse, a letter in your docket for the security violation. I'm not in the business to make friends, both personally or politically, which irks some of the suits. They pay me the big bucks to keep their business secure as Fort Knox, and they get what they pay for.
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Mod the parent up and beat the news poster to within an inch of his life!
The Chi-Towner has it dead-bang on right.
The review squad needs to start looking into the backup materials BEFORE posting these kind of articles.
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Make this one a threepeat!
Wish i had your confidence there... The last several Dells I've helped setup and get running had NO AGP slots on the mianboard! Think i'm BSing? Crack open one of their mid- to low-range models and take a peek inside. You can see where the AGP slot is supposed to go, BUT! The slot itself was never installed!
This is one reason why I urge my clients that buy Dells to overbuild their processor and memory so that Dell will be forced to put in the nicer boards instead of the low-grade POS Intels that they seem to love.
The other reason is that I don't want to hear them bitching that their system is slow 6 months down the road..
OK how to go about OCing a calculator that uses reverse Polish notation? Put an Intel 8086 on the barby?
Heh, kinda hard to do that when they got a hammerlock on easy-to-use operating systems.
That, actually holds true in this day and age.
Usually the time to when the law would catch wind of something like this and act would be like, a couple of months, maybe three. These days... ehhhhhhhh, more like 2-4 weeks, tops!
The ack-acks have the law enforcement groups running their donut-encrusted behinds off on on things like these, so the best way to let others know, is not to be hasty about it.
Swelled egos + big mouths = big trouble down the road.
Welcome to the club.. We've had to take the ClueBat to our ILEC and CLEC's more than a few times over the time in which we had leased our HiCap analogs and PRI circuits from Verizoned and SBClueless. Each time a circuit would go down, we'd call them, and either they would say it would take 2-3 days, or if it were on a weekend as when it break often, SBChumps woulden't even answer the phone!
The only T1 provider in which we came to love those last couple of years was Sprintlink. They were helpful, nicer'n any other NOC we talked with, and ACTUALLY got the problems solved before things got way out of hand. They had a redheaded southern gal answering the phone, so PLEASE be nice, cuz if you hit any of her buttons better be wearing asbestos earmuffs, cuz yer telephone is going to melt!
We did a 3am relocating of our gear, including the router. Everyone was notified, save for Sprint. Ten minutes into the move, the phone rings and it's their NOC, wondering why our router was not responding to their regular inquiries. We told them we were moving stuff about and it was unplugged for about 5 minutes before you called us.
Ah well, these days it's leasing the circuits from wholesale CLEC providers. Pricey, but are dependable and fast.
I checked the specs on the DLink unit and i'm pleased that it's power requirements only need 12 volts. This means you can hook it up to a large lead-acid or gelcell battery, and it can run outdoors for about 3 to 10 days, depending on how big of a battery you use. Now if only they had infared LEDs wired in with the cam.. That means that you'll have to bash together a setup where you can slew the camera to it's stop, hitting a switch to turn on the lights, then slew it the other way to the opposing stop to cut them off.. A great way to check for deer or other critters in the backyard.
Read the follow-on colonial marines handbook that explains some more into the so-called Caterpillar walking forklift. The unit uses gryoscopic stabilization similiar to what segways use, only that the gyros "uncouple" when the user tries to walk with it, causing the unit to become naturally unstable, but within tolerances that are norm with walking. I mean, after all, we humans are naturally unstable while standing.
As for working in the soft soil or mud with them, forget it! The PSI/Square inch of pressure that the footpads would apply to the ground it walks on, especially when it's under load, the walker would sink up to it's knees in a heartbeat!
No, these units would be built for in-house, or established sites, where there the terrain is level and firm enough so that the mechas would be able to move about without worry of sinking or toppling over.
IF the jokers try to make her sign a commitment, then they are full of crap. Under the utility regs, she does NOT have to sign ANY form of commitment whatsoever for basic telephone service. For any extra features (call waiting, call ID, etc.) there may be a commitment requested then and only then.
I had sbc drop a 6 pair lead-in from a utility pole to the home i'm in right now, about 100 yards worth. The contractor had to run the bloody thing under a fence, not to mention tunneling under TWO concrete driveways! I didn't have to pay a single red cent for any of that extra work that they did.
You get someone that's wise to their ways to help you out, you can make your telco dance to the tune that you set, instead of the other way around.
Don't mean a dammed thing... Telephones come under the definition of UTILITY. Meaning, that the CLEC has no option that if a client wants telephone service installed, they have to run the dammed wires to the utility drop at the property line, no matter if it means 2 miles off of the road or 20. Then it's up to the client to finish the run to his home via any method that he/she can find, by either running the lead-in via poles or bury the bloody thing. The telephone company CANNOT deny ANYONE service based upon location, that is FEDERAL Law.
If they bitch, take it up the ladder to the next in command, and keep it up until you find a joker that will help you out.
If that fails, call, email, or write to your state PUC and drop the hammer on the telco's head, HARD!
These money-grubbing weasels will try to wriggle out of ANY money-losing opportunity that they can, even at the expense of a customers life.
No, you say Heinz 57, which is oh-so very true!
They're commiting FRAUD!
They got a oh-so nice link that says unsubscribe, but when you click on it, they ignore it? Spammy then turns around and increases the sendto rate by 200%, resell the address, and oh, by the way, we'll joejob your account once we're tired of filling it up.
In the eyes of the Law, this constiutes Willfull Fraud, and more than a few other items in the United States Legal Code. Spelled out, means JAILTIME!
Done that, seen the paperwork..
Back in the 70's when Ultralight aircraft first hit the scene with powered hang gliders, the FAA pretty much did the same thing.
Those laws were fair and just for the classification of that type of aircraft. And look where those planes went! We got paraplanes, ultralights that look like real homebuilt planes, we got law enforcement ultralights, even cropdusters built on the cheap!
This is just a paper tiger that congress grinds out whenever a new invention really shows its potential.
I got my two tickets to The Ride, wanna come?
Hmm, sounds familiar...
Scientology, anyone?
They love pushing their books and cult through media too..
Can't do that, NEC electrial code prohibits installation of a 2nd ground spike for household systems. This creates what is called a floating ground, effectively causing a major shock hazard.
No master electrician worth his salt would go and do that, but whould be more than glad to help you out with your problem... Odds are that the older wiring has issues with grounding and is in need of proper grounding... Call a electrician and let him deal with it.
The memo has too many spinwords and hyped-up promises to be upper-crust.. It reeks of a PHB in the PR department or a minion in HR.
*growls* Anyone want to flood their faxes with a copy of the memo with a big red stamp that's labeled BULL?
Those fields are used for mockups and to practice moves that they have to program into the games.
Instead of Rest and Relaxation, it's Work and Work some more.
The key phrase here is efficient conversion of water into Hydrogen.
Oh, I agree that electolysis is great, but it takes power to make it happen, but it's a inefficient process.
The other way is by using chemicals.. I had the name of the compound that creates hydrogen at the tip of my tougne for years since my last chemistry lesson, but once agian, the key phrase efficiency in energy useage for the cracking of water, rears it's ugly head.
The use of nuclear reactions to crack water shows promise, but neutron activation of the water must be moderated and contained so that contamination will be kept to the utmost minimal levels.
Remember, you can make any gas radioactive by pouring enough rems into it to make the it ionize. The repair crew of the nuclear missile submarine K-12, AKA, The Widowmaker, saw the ionization firsthand.
Not to mention the helicopter crews that dropped carbon and boron on the exposed reactor core at Chernobyl...
Few live to tell the tale for very long...
I'm admin for a optical shop and when they asked for root, thats just what I told him.. I also said "That IF I EVER allow you root, it will be through remote secure desktop and I WILL be watching your every move! AND, if you do get stupid with that mouse I will pull the plug and call your boss, is that clear??"
They quickly agreed, since I got layered security in place (router, software, NAT, etc..), they'll have the devil's own time just making the attempt since it'll take me an half hour just to configure the network to allow for tunneled access.
Pure and simple. Oh, and forge a contract in stone saying that if you do allow access, you wash your hands of any fuckup that they perform, since it's their own dammed fault in the first place. And ah, if they do fuck it up, both contracts are broken, their boss gets a nice call from your attorneys, PLUS your own boss, etc, etc.... IE, Things MIGHT get a little ugly for the vendor in question.
IF they want your business, they will have to cooperate with you in order to maintain a good business relationship.
After all, it's a buyer's market right now.
I like this idea.. The CPU would need a kickstart from a battery pack to start work, then as the BTUs rise, the cycle would change over and the Stirling would pick up the load, charging the "starter" batteries, and providing power.
Quite efficient, Stirlings.. The Aussies are using two to drive a unmanned station down in Antarctica. Pricey tho.. 10,000 AU$ each for a pair of 1500w units.
They can irradiate drugs to create radioactive tracers for the local radiology labs and make a killing doing it too!
By the end of the year, they'd have gone and paid off their little investment.
This so-called professor just pretty much repeated, verbatim, what the PR and HR depts at EA have been touting all along. He simply just wrapped it up in a nutshell and put a coat of Turtle Wax on it.
Hrmf.. It might as well have been one of the 3-inch ringbinders of PR policies and procedures (Vol. 1-100) published, instead of this guide that's full of sickly-sweetness that every PR PHB, peon, manager, and interirm aspires to.
It just makes me sick seeing this tome that he wrote. *trashes it and washes his hands.*
IMHO, Odds are that the students in his classes have to do to pass is simply parrot back to him what he is teaching.
Ask the Fuckwit Steve Case. He was the one that ramrodded most of the mergers.
Done that.. Pissed off more than a few clients with the security policies, blown a couple of budgets by a little bit. But it's still secure by overbuilding, securing the systems with personal passwords, set to expire in 30 day intervals. Education, education, education... The current headache with the 'wares was simply resolved by implementing a HOSTS file into each terminal via administrative batching. This was done within a hour and the infected machines were then reimaged with clean OS's. No slouch this nut is. As I said, i've pissed off a few folks, but they learned lessons the hard way not to break the NSA's rules and you don't wind up with a blank computer, or worse, a letter in your docket for the security violation. I'm not in the business to make friends, both personally or politically, which irks some of the suits. They pay me the big bucks to keep their business secure as Fort Knox, and they get what they pay for.