Yes... All the solder is silver based. Well, it is if you want to sell consumer electronics in the EU. We used to use lead, but that apparently was ending up in land fills and making a mess...
Buy some real router hardware that is supported by DD-WRT or Open-WRT so you have a choice....
I NEVER buy a router that is not already supported (or likely will be supported) by either of these. My last router was from Linksys and was part of their WRT line so OpenWRT was pretty much a given (being that's what it already runs under the Linksys web GUI anyway). My WRT-3200AN is a good choice if you catch it on sale. It has SATA, USB3 and last I saw the WAP button worked if you needed it too, even on the factory firmware.
Run OpenWRT or DD-WRT and don't enable remote management...Like I said... If you want to run Cisco gear, knock yourself out, but it's over priced and over complicated for use at home.
Is stop buying consumer grade WiFi routers that are poorly supported and get a plain access point and stick it behind a real router.
Naw, As an owner of some really nice Cisco routers, stick with the consumer router at home unless you have time to learn how to configure it (or do Cisco work for a living). "Professional" gear isn't worth the trouble or cost for most of us. Not to mention that some of Cisco's offerings are really just their version of a consumer level device (that 500 series) and are pretty hard to configure for normal home use. You can do it (I managed) but it was painful to get all those video applications and games to work as expected.
I do like your access point BEHIND the router as a separate device, but he security you get is really minimal.
What you SHOULD do is buy hardware that is supported by DD-WRT or OpenWRT and erase the manufacturers firmware at your first opportunity. If you really want to be secure, buy 2 and set up a DMZ network behind a firewall for all the consumer devices you cannot control (video players for Netflix, home automation devices, cable boxes, ec) and put all your secure stuff behind another NATed subnet with a firewall.
RGR that... DD-WRT for those who like the common feature set, flashy GUI and their hardware is supported and OpenWRT for the rest of us control freaks... Use them both.
Why is that relevant? If they can't bluff or bully you into accepting changes they'll con you into it.
They where going to just park our new database tables on their existing servers and then exchange data with the new application using some SQL queries, views and triggers. For them, it made sense not to upset their huge Oracle apple cart for the little sideline business being done by the application we delivered, at least not at first. Of course, eventually the sideline business grew too big for the existing infrastructure and they paid through the nose for upgrading their Oracle licenses so they could migrate to better hardware, but that wasn't our problem. We did enjoy getting a second bite of the apple, charging them for supporting the migration effort just like Oracle who took a bushel of apples from them.
Look, we explained all this to them up front, they knew what costs they where facing. But until the sideline business was actually making profit for them, what they did made sense. Sure, it cut into their profits over the long run, but it also limited their risk in the short term. We even offered to help them migrate off to an open source DB product but their other application vendors wanted too much to make sort term sense so they declined.
One of the rules of sales is "the customer is always right". If they didn't want to use anything other than Oracle and they felt strongly about it, I deliver my application using Oracle... The money you make is just a green...
Is there a technical reason for using Oracle over something else?
Yep, the PHB thinks that paying for support means he will get faster resolution of his production problems so he's willing to pay the support fees.. Plus he has a couple of Oracle Gurus on staff or contract too...
Yea, I know that's not a "technical" reason per say, but it's THE normal reason.
It's like buying IBM hardware, nobody gets fired for buying stuff that usually works, but many get fired for saving money and buying junk that doesn't work.
Continues onward.
What is the point in using Oracle software in ANYTHING these days outside of the support contract*
*Only reason I can think of.
Where I don't disagree with you and fully believe that there usually are fully viable options to replace Oracle in nearly ALL situations with free open source solutions, there ARE reasons to go with Oracle.
The primary one I can come up with is "the customer demands it". I've worked with customers who believed (right or wrong) that Oracle was their only solution that worked for them. They had the personnel to support it, already had licenses for it and had budgeted support costs from now until forever. We gave them an Oracle solution...
That's not to say, we didn't do our development on other things.... Only we delivered what the customer wanted.
First we build a thin aluminum can. Then we fly it 10000 meters up where there's no air to breathe and if you stop, you drop.
No and no.
First, there IS air you can breathe at 30,000 feet.. It is just at such low pressure that the partial pressure of O2 is low enough you will lose consciousness in about 10 seconds without supplemental O2 supplies to raise the partial pressure of O2 to keep you awake. Not to mention that the air inside of that aluminum can you are in came from outside, was compressed by the engines and piped in. Loss of pressurization is easy to deal with, you descend below 10,000 FT as fast as you can, which can be done safely and quickly by properly trained pilots.
Second, there is no way to stop an airplane at altitude no matter what you do short of blowing the thing up. Of course if you stop the thrust from the engines you are going to descend (glide), but not "stop and drop" as in like a rock for anything short of a major structural failure.
Sure the problems are solvable, but there are a few unique dangerous issues that trying to pull a vacuum on a large volume then traveling through it presents which I'm not sure are immediately obvious, or easily solvable. The very least of which is dealing with the internal apparent altitude of the vehicle and maintaining it in a safe range, or providing supplemental O2 on failures long enough to know you can restore the pressure.. My next concern is fire and getting the passengers into a safe place when you cannot just jump out of the emergency exit and walk away from the fire, both because of the vacuum and because you are in a tunnel...
Of course Musk isn't going to start digging tunnels next month. I can scarcely begin to imagine how much work it involves to get permission, permits, acquire land, and the million-and-one other things you have to do before even breaking the sod.
What's gone wrong with this website? Someone please fix it.
The environmental impact studies alone will cost millions and take years, then there are the traffic studies, engineering and as you point out acquisition of the right of way and permits... He is either kidding (my guess), or blowing smoke/steam about LA's traffic problems. He's either not thought this through or he's not serious and given who this guy is, I cannot believe he's serious.
Not bad considering most states have at least a handful of "state" schools to choose from and some states have state schools in double digits. There has to be 500+ "state" schools out there.
CLEARLY the state schools in Texas are in the top 25%, which is great given their affordability to residents. Even the worst of the two schools you rank. Some are better in some programs that the overall ranking shows too. UTD for instance has some top 1-2% graduate programs of ALL out there, just don't expect to get a PHD in Performance Arts there...
I home schooled my kids, not that the local public schools are somehow lacking (they are actually pretty good)...So it doesn't matter to me... Also, it's a bit unfair to just lump Texas in with every other state's education performance w/o also discussing WHY Texas struggles with education. My guess is demographics plays a BIG role in this problem given the impact of having the longest part of the border with Mexico...
I can assure you that the Public College system in Texas is very good and very affordable.
Sorry if I wasn't clear... Texas does spend a lot of my tax money on this kind of thing, but in general they are making investments that have paid off in higher tax revenue that more than offsets the initial expense. So, assuming they don't start making bad investments with "other people's money" (such as mine) I don't think they are going to run out... Of course, the liberals in Austin are always looking for ways to mess this all up, but thankfully haven't the political power to do much damage..
"the company is talking with the state of Pennsylvania among others about getting the land and electricity subsidies it would need to build a factory"
If I lived in Pennsylvania and it happened to bring jobs to may area, I'd be for it. Pennsylvania has some pretty poor unemployment numbers. If it was me looking for a job and this created a job for me, I'd be all for it myself. In fact, here in Texas we do this tax abatements and subsidies all the time at the state, county and city levels of government and have successfully attracted some pretty big employers to the area with tens of thousands of jobs. Take a look at Texas' unemployment numbers of you doubt this works, also look at the state's budget surplus if you doubt it is good for the economy.
I used to think conservatives were against welfare.
Depends on what you mean by welfare..... Free handouts for no purpose but to pay off one's supporters or buy votes? No, generally don't support that.... Free food and healthcare for abled bodied people who refuse to take responsibility? No, don't support that either and neither do most of my republican friends.
Supporting those who cannot work though no fault of their own and cannot support themselves? I'm good with that kind of welfare. Tax abatements and incentives to bring businesses and associated jobs from overseas? Depending on the business, I can see that being a good thing too and if you call THAT welfare, then I guess republicans are for that kind of welfare.
Like I've said before... It doesn't matter if Trump had anything directly to do with this or not. What matters is if the average Trump voter THINKS he did or if the pendants can convince folks Trump had an effect.
This is POLITICTS people, a big mixture of PR, spin and sometimes actual FACTS (when hey don't get in the way of the first two).... It's a wild game played by both parties to varying degrees of success.. So what's the point of trying to argue either way on this?
Personally I like the Mercedes approach.. It shakes the wheel when it detects something you need to pay attention to with the steering and will apply the breaks for you before you hit something... YOU still have to drive the thing.
When your power grid management interfaces are directly connected to the Internet you must suffer. There's no excuse for that.
Not saying it necessarily was in this case, but if such a connection is justified, then there's no excuse for not mitigating that risk properly with an applicable security model.
The answer is risk mitigation and management. If we unplugged everything that got hacked, nothing would be online.
And WHY do you need the power grid online in the first place?
About the only reason can imagine you'd use the internet in a system designed for controlling the power grid is as a backup communications path for all those remote sites when your primary data path fails. However, you are an idiot if you don't use encrypted VPN's and some pretty restrictive firewalls in those cases.
It gives the impression that the more dangerous the battery is, the more it stores, at a point i wouldn't be surprised if they came up with a lithium-Nitroglycerin battery that outperforms everything else.
Imagine that in a Note 7.... Poof, you are gone...
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Yes... All the solder is silver based. Well, it is if you want to sell consumer electronics in the EU. We used to use lead, but that apparently was ending up in land fills and making a mess...
Buy some real router hardware that is supported by DD-WRT or Open-WRT so you have a choice....
I NEVER buy a router that is not already supported (or likely will be supported) by either of these. My last router was from Linksys and was part of their WRT line so OpenWRT was pretty much a given (being that's what it already runs under the Linksys web GUI anyway). My WRT-3200AN is a good choice if you catch it on sale. It has SATA, USB3 and last I saw the WAP button worked if you needed it too, even on the factory firmware.
Run OpenWRT or DD-WRT and don't enable remote management...Like I said... If you want to run Cisco gear, knock yourself out, but it's over priced and over complicated for use at home.
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Is stop buying consumer grade WiFi routers that are poorly supported and get a plain access point and stick it behind a real router.
Naw, As an owner of some really nice Cisco routers, stick with the consumer router at home unless you have time to learn how to configure it (or do Cisco work for a living). "Professional" gear isn't worth the trouble or cost for most of us. Not to mention that some of Cisco's offerings are really just their version of a consumer level device (that 500 series) and are pretty hard to configure for normal home use. You can do it (I managed) but it was painful to get all those video applications and games to work as expected.
I do like your access point BEHIND the router as a separate device, but he security you get is really minimal.
What you SHOULD do is buy hardware that is supported by DD-WRT or OpenWRT and erase the manufacturers firmware at your first opportunity. If you really want to be secure, buy 2 and set up a DMZ network behind a firewall for all the consumer devices you cannot control (video players for Netflix, home automation devices, cable boxes, ec) and put all your secure stuff behind another NATed subnet with a firewall.
RGR that... DD-WRT for those who like the common feature set, flashy GUI and their hardware is supported and OpenWRT for the rest of us control freaks... Use them both.
Why is that relevant? If they can't bluff or bully you into accepting changes they'll con you into it.
They where going to just park our new database tables on their existing servers and then exchange data with the new application using some SQL queries, views and triggers. For them, it made sense not to upset their huge Oracle apple cart for the little sideline business being done by the application we delivered, at least not at first. Of course, eventually the sideline business grew too big for the existing infrastructure and they paid through the nose for upgrading their Oracle licenses so they could migrate to better hardware, but that wasn't our problem. We did enjoy getting a second bite of the apple, charging them for supporting the migration effort just like Oracle who took a bushel of apples from them.
Look, we explained all this to them up front, they knew what costs they where facing. But until the sideline business was actually making profit for them, what they did made sense. Sure, it cut into their profits over the long run, but it also limited their risk in the short term. We even offered to help them migrate off to an open source DB product but their other application vendors wanted too much to make sort term sense so they declined.
One of the rules of sales is "the customer is always right". If they didn't want to use anything other than Oracle and they felt strongly about it, I deliver my application using Oracle... The money you make is just a green...
Is there a technical reason for using Oracle over something else?
Yep, the PHB thinks that paying for support means he will get faster resolution of his production problems so he's willing to pay the support fees.. Plus he has a couple of Oracle Gurus on staff or contract too...
Yea, I know that's not a "technical" reason per say, but it's THE normal reason.
It's like buying IBM hardware, nobody gets fired for buying stuff that usually works, but many get fired for saving money and buying junk that doesn't work.
Now that's true, funny and sad all at the same time.... Oh I do whish I had mod points today....
Continues onward. What is the point in using Oracle software in ANYTHING these days outside of the support contract* *Only reason I can think of.
Where I don't disagree with you and fully believe that there usually are fully viable options to replace Oracle in nearly ALL situations with free open source solutions, there ARE reasons to go with Oracle.
The primary one I can come up with is "the customer demands it". I've worked with customers who believed (right or wrong) that Oracle was their only solution that worked for them. They had the personnel to support it, already had licenses for it and had budgeted support costs from now until forever. We gave them an Oracle solution...
That's not to say, we didn't do our development on other things.... Only we delivered what the customer wanted.
What could go wrong? (gasp)
First we build a thin aluminum can. Then we fly it 10000 meters up where there's no air to breathe and if you stop, you drop.
No and no.
First, there IS air you can breathe at 30,000 feet.. It is just at such low pressure that the partial pressure of O2 is low enough you will lose consciousness in about 10 seconds without supplemental O2 supplies to raise the partial pressure of O2 to keep you awake. Not to mention that the air inside of that aluminum can you are in came from outside, was compressed by the engines and piped in. Loss of pressurization is easy to deal with, you descend below 10,000 FT as fast as you can, which can be done safely and quickly by properly trained pilots.
Second, there is no way to stop an airplane at altitude no matter what you do short of blowing the thing up. Of course if you stop the thrust from the engines you are going to descend (glide), but not "stop and drop" as in like a rock for anything short of a major structural failure.
Sure the problems are solvable, but there are a few unique dangerous issues that trying to pull a vacuum on a large volume then traveling through it presents which I'm not sure are immediately obvious, or easily solvable. The very least of which is dealing with the internal apparent altitude of the vehicle and maintaining it in a safe range, or providing supplemental O2 on failures long enough to know you can restore the pressure.. My next concern is fire and getting the passengers into a safe place when you cannot just jump out of the emergency exit and walk away from the fire, both because of the vacuum and because you are in a tunnel...
He doesn't have enough money for this, trust me...He's joking..
First we build a tunnel... then we suck all the air out... then we move people around through a series of tubes.
What could go wrong? (gasp)
Of course Musk isn't going to start digging tunnels next month. I can scarcely begin to imagine how much work it involves to get permission, permits, acquire land, and the million-and-one other things you have to do before even breaking the sod.
What's gone wrong with this website? Someone please fix it.
The environmental impact studies alone will cost millions and take years, then there are the traffic studies, engineering and as you point out acquisition of the right of way and permits... He is either kidding (my guess), or blowing smoke/steam about LA's traffic problems. He's either not thought this through or he's not serious and given who this guy is, I cannot believe he's serious.
Not bad considering most states have at least a handful of "state" schools to choose from and some states have state schools in double digits. There has to be 500+ "state" schools out there.
CLEARLY the state schools in Texas are in the top 25%, which is great given their affordability to residents. Even the worst of the two schools you rank. Some are better in some programs that the overall ranking shows too. UTD for instance has some top 1-2% graduate programs of ALL out there, just don't expect to get a PHD in Performance Arts there...
I home schooled my kids, not that the local public schools are somehow lacking (they are actually pretty good)...So it doesn't matter to me... Also, it's a bit unfair to just lump Texas in with every other state's education performance w/o also discussing WHY Texas struggles with education. My guess is demographics plays a BIG role in this problem given the impact of having the longest part of the border with Mexico...
I can assure you that the Public College system in Texas is very good and very affordable.
Sorry if I wasn't clear... Texas does spend a lot of my tax money on this kind of thing, but in general they are making investments that have paid off in higher tax revenue that more than offsets the initial expense. So, assuming they don't start making bad investments with "other people's money" (such as mine) I don't think they are going to run out... Of course, the liberals in Austin are always looking for ways to mess this all up, but thankfully haven't the political power to do much damage..
Seems in Texas, "other people's money" hasn't been an issue. But we do not just hand out "welfare" to everybody who asks here...
"the company is talking with the state of Pennsylvania among others about getting the land and electricity subsidies it would need to build a factory"
If I lived in Pennsylvania and it happened to bring jobs to may area, I'd be for it. Pennsylvania has some pretty poor unemployment numbers. If it was me looking for a job and this created a job for me, I'd be all for it myself. In fact, here in Texas we do this tax abatements and subsidies all the time at the state, county and city levels of government and have successfully attracted some pretty big employers to the area with tens of thousands of jobs. Take a look at Texas' unemployment numbers of you doubt this works, also look at the state's budget surplus if you doubt it is good for the economy.
I used to think conservatives were against welfare.
Depends on what you mean by welfare..... Free handouts for no purpose but to pay off one's supporters or buy votes? No, generally don't support that.... Free food and healthcare for abled bodied people who refuse to take responsibility? No, don't support that either and neither do most of my republican friends.
Supporting those who cannot work though no fault of their own and cannot support themselves? I'm good with that kind of welfare. Tax abatements and incentives to bring businesses and associated jobs from overseas? Depending on the business, I can see that being a good thing too and if you call THAT welfare, then I guess republicans are for that kind of welfare.
This has nothing to do with Trump
Like I've said before... It doesn't matter if Trump had anything directly to do with this or not. What matters is if the average Trump voter THINKS he did or if the pendants can convince folks Trump had an effect.
This is POLITICTS people, a big mixture of PR, spin and sometimes actual FACTS (when hey don't get in the way of the first two).... It's a wild game played by both parties to varying degrees of success.. So what's the point of trying to argue either way on this?
Pretty much all the countries I'd be interested in are not on the list.... (sad face)
Wait, Venezuela is on the list but PNG isn't? Heck, most of the middle east isn't on the list but China is?
Personally I like the Mercedes approach.. It shakes the wheel when it detects something you need to pay attention to with the steering and will apply the breaks for you before you hit something... YOU still have to drive the thing.
When your power grid management interfaces are directly connected to the Internet you must suffer. There's no excuse for that.
Not saying it necessarily was in this case, but if such a connection is justified, then there's no excuse for not mitigating that risk properly with an applicable security model.
The answer is risk mitigation and management. If we unplugged everything that got hacked, nothing would be online.
And WHY do you need the power grid online in the first place?
About the only reason can imagine you'd use the internet in a system designed for controlling the power grid is as a backup communications path for all those remote sites when your primary data path fails. However, you are an idiot if you don't use encrypted VPN's and some pretty restrictive firewalls in those cases.
You don't usually win fighting city hall...
It gives the impression that the more dangerous the battery is, the more it stores, at a point i wouldn't be surprised if they came up with a lithium-Nitroglycerin battery that outperforms everything else.
Imagine that in a Note 7.... Poof, you are gone...