The first thing to bear in mind is that the keyfile doesn't have to be stored on anything more durable than whatever the backup files are on.
Personally, if it's important, I back up to multiple media anyway on the assumption that a fire, flash flood and massive EMP/magnetic anomaly won't all be hitting me at the same time. I also copy the important stuff to fresh media occasionally. Which is why I still have files that started life on 8-inch floppy disks.
So for me, a thumb drive for key files isn't such a bad idea.
Now if you want to chisel QR codes with 3-inch high pixels into granite slabs and bury them under 30 feet of sand just as a precaution, I won't stop you...
Trickle-down Economics was considered a Self-Evident Truth by many for many years.
You might consider that rather than a binary tax/no-tax rule that it might be possible to plot a curve and determine where, for a given set of circumstances, a given tax rate might lead to a desired set of circumstances.
Or,, if it's too much trouble to shift out of binary/straight-line simplistic thinking, how it could be that businesses got along fine and employees were generally optimistic for decades under higher tax rates, tarrifs, duties and lower employee productivity. Now it seems that the only way to stay in business is to effectively move the business to another country and employees are fed up to the point that people like Trump and Sanders are serious contenders for the Presidency. And neither one of them has gotten their popularity from pushing the status quo in outsourcing.
Even were your "self-evident truths" absolutely and immutably true, you're dealing with the perversity of human nature here. Which means that if there's a way to derail these "truths", it will happen.
Most corporations that go out of business end up paying little or nothing to the shareholders.
The money is all going to go to the thugs at the top, followed by creditors. In theory, the other way around, but the actual divvying up of the corpse doesn't begin until after the corporation is legally defunct, whereas the directors and C-levels can plunder it via stock options, golden parachutes, consulting fees and other stuff before saying "whoops!"
Probably a lot more than 20 years. Hertz was #1 back when the only computers around were mainframes and odds are that they had at least one from IBM.
The more salient point is that the IBM of 20 years ago isn't the IBM of today. At least back then most of your support came from people on and from the same continent as yourself.
You never "own" property. Try not paying taxes on it and see. It's like "owning" a movie on DVD.
A lot of people "owned" property free and clear, but then someone came in, gentrified the neighborhood, property valuations skyrocketed, and the "owners" couldn't afford the higher taxes.
Some take the money and run. Some have a value system based on other things than money.
I don't use classical methods for deploying applications any more. There are some really good provisioning systems out there now. The Puppet module for Docker will not only handle deployment, it even adds the support stuff to auto-restart containers if the Docker controller reboots. Which for some reason wasn't considered a priority by the Docker folks themselves.
Well, to be fair, I was more referring to mid-20th Century white collar workers there. 19th Century was pretty much shit to the point where job security was one of the lesser issues for most people.
And for all the excoriation of unions, one thing that they did for workers is get the automakers to furlough during slack periods rather than fire everyone and make them start over from scratch every time business picked up. Which is more than most white-collar workers can brag.
But even as late as the latter 1970s, you could be pretty useless and still expect to retain a job regardless of this week's DJIA. I had to work with some of these drones, alas. They weren't even relatives of the boss.
Running at 110% efficiency isn't sustainable. Even running at 100% efficiency can only go on until something slips. Old-time corporations didn't rely on instant data and real-time analytics so they had to settle for being less efficient overall in order to have enough reserve capacity for peak needs. These days we cherry-pick and lemon-drop for that extra efficiency to the point where the financial effects have already hurt us pretty badly and the social effects may well prove ultimately explosive.
Believe it or not, at one time, companies didn't lay people off at the drop of a hat. Because hiring them back again is expensive and hiring new people means that you not only have to train them to do the job the way your company needs it done, but they also have to learn where to go in the company to get things done.
When 110% efficiency and rapidly gaining short-term share price was not the expectation, people would be reassigned, furloughed or sent off for training if their primary skills weren't required.
That doesn't mean that people didn't get laid off. Just that the norm was that layoffs were a measure of last resort, not the first thing you did to boost quarterly profits. There was a certain noblesse oblige there. The company took care of you and you took care of the company. You worked until you retired, they gave you a gold watch and a pension. You were invested emotionally in the company and in the happiness of its customers. Or, if not, you got canned, but not because you weren't the perfect fit for the moment.
So it is more cost effective to retain the IT staff, retrain them, and give them career paths, than it is to simply lay them off every 18 months and bring in people who already know the new systems?
Considering that companies stopped being loyal to their employees somewhere around 1985, I'd like to know where they're finding this pool of selfless employees who are loyal and expect to be with the company long enough to grow with it.
A true cyborg doesn't physically separate the brain and the robot. Consider RoboCop or the 6-Million Dollar Man.
Especially consider RoboCop. Officer Murphy had perfectly good body parts amputated just so they could more completely cyborg him. A battlefield would be an ever better place for that.
Used to be if you suffered serious damage in battle, you could look forward to going home and dealing with years of PTSD. With cyborg technology, they could just slap on a few machine parts and send you back for more!
When we moved from many, many ISPs to just a few Cable Providers in the 1990's we mistakenly made only a few large telco and cable companies responsible for the internet. This is by definition monopoly power. It disgusts me that we trust an organization with this level of evil with ensuring free and fair communication.
Why do we put up with this?
It was no mistake. It was Lower Prices Everyday [TM].
My ISP changed names about 4 times as it got bought by bigger and bigger companies. Because the bigger companies had more efficiencies of scale. They could buy goods and services in bigger volumes, thus achieving more profitability than their smaller rivals. They could afford to buy smaller rivals outright. And it's a positive feedback loop. The bigger you are, the bigger you can get - nothing succeeds like success.
A lot of people who worship The Free Market as a god have this mental image that a totally free market can exist where all buyers and sellers have equal power.
For the most part, you only get that with gross commodities and small startup costs. Dry cleaning establishments, independent eateries and so forth.
A Capital Market is different. If you need to raise capital just to get started, you're already seeing market freedom drop out. Relatively few people are willing (or often even able) to risk substantial amounts of money to build a plant, tool it up, obtain raw materials, invest in warehousing and shipping infrastructure (even outsourced, there are expenses), and hire the various people to keep it all running. What retail customers end up with is typically an asymmetric take-it-or-leave-it set of choices from an extremely limited set of suppliers. But Please Stay on the Line, Your Call is very important to us!
Granted, an ISP isn't exactly your classical Dark Satanic Mill. My original ISP was a guy who'd installed some surplus racks in a spare bedroom and operated over dialup POTS. His successors probably spend about half as much for 10 times as much capacity because they have Economies of Scale. He probably wouldn't even be able to get a foot in the door these days.
And that's not even counting the infamous Last Mile where the fewer the number of players digging up the neighborhood the better.
"On behalf of" sounds suspiciously like "independent contractor".
If you had worked directly for these large operation, I doubt you would have been unaffected. It has been standard hiring procedure for every full-time corporate job I've worked since 1984. And about the closest my duties have been to requiring quick reflexes is that I don't slam the door on my fingers when I put the cover back on my computer.
Besides, while Nancy foisted the quilty-until-proven-innocent drug test on me, her hubby can take the credit for the guilty-until-proven-innocent proof of citizenship I have to show while I'm going through getting hired.
Because otherwise, the country would be crawling with illegal immigrants, don't you know?
She was also well-known for her "Just say no" campaign on drugs; for replacing the White House China with a full service order from Lenox for the first time since the Truman administration; and for renovating the White House when it was in a state of disrepair, largely with private donations.
Yup. You can thank Nancy and 2 stoner train engineers for having to pee in a jar before you can get a job now. Before 1980, you could apply for most jobs without presenting your papers or proving you weren't a druggie.
Like old Ron said, "Government isn't the solution to the problem. Government is the problem."
Well, about 3 months back, I found a general-purpose 7" Android tablet for $39. It's not exactly Retina-level graphics resolution and the viewing angle is below average (some consider this a plus, though). But it's a perky little thing and yes, I believe it supports USB on-the-go, so I suppose you could use it is usb to control your arduino (sic).
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The first thing to bear in mind is that the keyfile doesn't have to be stored on anything more durable than whatever the backup files are on.
Personally, if it's important, I back up to multiple media anyway on the assumption that a fire, flash flood and massive EMP/magnetic anomaly won't all be hitting me at the same time. I also copy the important stuff to fresh media occasionally. Which is why I still have files that started life on 8-inch floppy disks.
So for me, a thumb drive for key files isn't such a bad idea.
Now if you want to chisel QR codes with 3-inch high pixels into granite slabs and bury them under 30 feet of sand just as a precaution, I won't stop you...
They cannot do that. Microsoft has already patented that.
Now what's the "Network Neighborhood" called in this release again???
Well, since this is DC, better get VIP plates for them or you'll be in a holding pattern.
You're screwed, either way.
Better still, make a Pi into a Stratum 1 server:
http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/Ra...
$400? No way!
You're arguing from a Self-Evident Truth.
Trickle-down Economics was considered a Self-Evident Truth by many for many years.
You might consider that rather than a binary tax/no-tax rule that it might be possible to plot a curve and determine where, for a given set of circumstances, a given tax rate might lead to a desired set of circumstances.
Or,, if it's too much trouble to shift out of binary/straight-line simplistic thinking, how it could be that businesses got along fine and employees were generally optimistic for decades under higher tax rates, tarrifs, duties and lower employee productivity. Now it seems that the only way to stay in business is to effectively move the business to another country and employees are fed up to the point that people like Trump and Sanders are serious contenders for the Presidency. And neither one of them has gotten their popularity from pushing the status quo in outsourcing.
Even were your "self-evident truths" absolutely and immutably true, you're dealing with the perversity of human nature here. Which means that if there's a way to derail these "truths", it will happen.
Most corporations that go out of business end up paying little or nothing to the shareholders.
The money is all going to go to the thugs at the top, followed by creditors. In theory, the other way around, but the actual divvying up of the corpse doesn't begin until after the corporation is legally defunct, whereas the directors and C-levels can plunder it via stock options, golden parachutes, consulting fees and other stuff before saying "whoops!"
Probably a lot more than 20 years. Hertz was #1 back when the only computers around were mainframes and odds are that they had at least one from IBM.
The more salient point is that the IBM of 20 years ago isn't the IBM of today. At least back then most of your support came from people on and from the same continent as yourself.
People still get install discs with their computers?
Residual "phone home" stuff from Windows 10.
Bet on it.
You never "own" property. Try not paying taxes on it and see. It's like "owning" a movie on DVD.
A lot of people "owned" property free and clear, but then someone came in, gentrified the neighborhood, property valuations skyrocketed, and the "owners" couldn't afford the higher taxes.
Some take the money and run. Some have a value system based on other things than money.
Hussein made the mistake of attacking the USS Stark. Assad is still in business.
I don't use classical methods for deploying applications any more. There are some really good provisioning systems out there now. The Puppet module for Docker will not only handle deployment, it even adds the support stuff to auto-restart containers if the Docker controller reboots. Which for some reason wasn't considered a priority by the Docker folks themselves.
Fruit flies like an arrow. Time flies - well, they're partial to kiwi or pineapple.
Well, to be fair, I was more referring to mid-20th Century white collar workers there. 19th Century was pretty much shit to the point where job security was one of the lesser issues for most people.
And for all the excoriation of unions, one thing that they did for workers is get the automakers to furlough during slack periods rather than fire everyone and make them start over from scratch every time business picked up. Which is more than most white-collar workers can brag.
But even as late as the latter 1970s, you could be pretty useless and still expect to retain a job regardless of this week's DJIA. I had to work with some of these drones, alas. They weren't even relatives of the boss.
Running at 110% efficiency isn't sustainable. Even running at 100% efficiency can only go on until something slips. Old-time corporations didn't rely on instant data and real-time analytics so they had to settle for being less efficient overall in order to have enough reserve capacity for peak needs. These days we cherry-pick and lemon-drop for that extra efficiency to the point where the financial effects have already hurt us pretty badly and the social effects may well prove ultimately explosive.
Believe it or not, at one time, companies didn't lay people off at the drop of a hat. Because hiring them back again is expensive and hiring new people means that you not only have to train them to do the job the way your company needs it done, but they also have to learn where to go in the company to get things done.
When 110% efficiency and rapidly gaining short-term share price was not the expectation, people would be reassigned, furloughed or sent off for training if their primary skills weren't required.
That doesn't mean that people didn't get laid off. Just that the norm was that layoffs were a measure of last resort, not the first thing you did to boost quarterly profits. There was a certain noblesse oblige there. The company took care of you and you took care of the company. You worked until you retired, they gave you a gold watch and a pension. You were invested emotionally in the company and in the happiness of its customers. Or, if not, you got canned, but not because you weren't the perfect fit for the moment.
Then they invented "perma-temping"...
So it is more cost effective to retain the IT staff, retrain them, and give them career paths, than it is to simply lay them off every 18 months and bring in people who already know the new systems?
Not if you can get the H1-B cap raised.
Considering that companies stopped being loyal to their employees somewhere around 1985, I'd like to know where they're finding this pool of selfless employees who are loyal and expect to be with the company long enough to grow with it.
...Mozilla's solution to a bit of code that's been present in their software for years and is buggy is to remove it years later rather than fix it?
Good to know they're still the consummate professionals we always assumed they were.
Really, where does Mozilla find so many chimps to hire?
Judging on recent examples, I'd say from the Nautilus, Gnome 3 and systemd crowd.
Removing important and popular features is the new IT paradigm!
A true cyborg doesn't physically separate the brain and the robot. Consider RoboCop or the 6-Million Dollar Man.
Especially consider RoboCop. Officer Murphy had perfectly good body parts amputated just so they could more completely cyborg him. A battlefield would be an ever better place for that.
Used to be if you suffered serious damage in battle, you could look forward to going home and dealing with years of PTSD. With cyborg technology, they could just slap on a few machine parts and send you back for more!
It's the low-flying pigs, I'm worrying about!
When we moved from many, many ISPs to just a few Cable Providers in the 1990's we mistakenly made only a few large telco and cable companies responsible for the internet. This is by definition monopoly power. It disgusts me that we trust an organization with this level of evil with ensuring free and fair communication.
Why do we put up with this?
It was no mistake. It was Lower Prices Everyday [TM].
My ISP changed names about 4 times as it got bought by bigger and bigger companies. Because the bigger companies had more efficiencies of scale. They could buy goods and services in bigger volumes, thus achieving more profitability than their smaller rivals. They could afford to buy smaller rivals outright. And it's a positive feedback loop. The bigger you are, the bigger you can get - nothing succeeds like success.
A lot of people who worship The Free Market as a god have this mental image that a totally free market can exist where all buyers and sellers have equal power.
For the most part, you only get that with gross commodities and small startup costs. Dry cleaning establishments, independent eateries and so forth.
A Capital Market is different. If you need to raise capital just to get started, you're already seeing market freedom drop out. Relatively few people are willing (or often even able) to risk substantial amounts of money to build a plant, tool it up, obtain raw materials, invest in warehousing and shipping infrastructure (even outsourced, there are expenses), and hire the various people to keep it all running. What retail customers end up with is typically an asymmetric take-it-or-leave-it set of choices from an extremely limited set of suppliers. But Please Stay on the Line, Your Call is very important to us!
Granted, an ISP isn't exactly your classical Dark Satanic Mill. My original ISP was a guy who'd installed some surplus racks in a spare bedroom and operated over dialup POTS. His successors probably spend about half as much for 10 times as much capacity because they have Economies of Scale. He probably wouldn't even be able to get a foot in the door these days.
And that's not even counting the infamous Last Mile where the fewer the number of players digging up the neighborhood the better.
"On behalf of" sounds suspiciously like "independent contractor".
If you had worked directly for these large operation, I doubt you would have been unaffected. It has been standard hiring procedure for every full-time corporate job I've worked since 1984. And about the closest my duties have been to requiring quick reflexes is that I don't slam the door on my fingers when I put the cover back on my computer.
Besides, while Nancy foisted the quilty-until-proven-innocent drug test on me, her hubby can take the credit for the guilty-until-proven-innocent proof of citizenship I have to show while I'm going through getting hired.
Because otherwise, the country would be crawling with illegal immigrants, don't you know?
She was also well-known for her "Just say no" campaign on drugs; for replacing the White House China with a full service order from Lenox for the first time since the Truman administration; and for renovating the White House when it was in a state of disrepair, largely with private donations.
Yup. You can thank Nancy and 2 stoner train engineers for having to pee in a jar before you can get a job now. Before 1980, you could apply for most jobs without presenting your papers or proving you weren't a druggie.
Like old Ron said, "Government isn't the solution to the problem. Government is the problem."
Well, about 3 months back, I found a general-purpose 7" Android tablet for $39. It's not exactly Retina-level graphics resolution and the viewing angle is below average (some consider this a plus, though). But it's a perky little thing and yes, I believe it supports USB on-the-go, so I suppose you could use it is usb to control your arduino (sic).