It depends. During the Derecho, there was no cable/internet signal. During other power outages (Snowmageddon in 2010), the cable/internet was unaffected.
Each area is different. During the Derecho, the main Comcast building in my area had no power, so therefore no internet. During Snowmageddon, they had a few more days notice and I saw no interruption. Between PoE and generators, I would assume Comcast was able to stay in operation.
Some electrical engineering knowledge will take you a long ways.
1. Calculate how much power you actually need during a power outage. A refrigerator is about 1,000 W. Throw in 100 W for light bulbs. TV/cable box/modem/router comes out to around 300 W (assuming flat-screen). So actually, your inverter only needs to be around 2,000 W (giving 10% cushion for device power-up). Those retail for $150-$200.
2. Charge controller is mainly for high-end systems. Try a diode or a batter isolator made for a vehicle.
3. Batteries are not that expensive. I just bought a 870 kW deep-cycle battery for my vehicle for $200. During the Derecho in July, I was able to power my TV, fridge, and laptop for over 3 hours (I turned my vehicle on every 3 hours for 10 minutes to recharge the battery). That worked for the 36 hours I was without power.
4. Auto-transfer switch is nice, but unnecessary. If you are too lazy to flip 2 circuit breakers, one to isolate your house from the gird and another to connect your inverter to your house, then you are just screwed.
Some GUI applications have their uses. I'd rather use Disk Utility or the LVM GUI than do it through CL. Mounting external media is much easier with a GUI, since you do not have to attempt to predict which device name that external hard drive will be given. Also, while wget can be used on CL, downloading files from the internet is a lot easier with a full on browser. For example, installing CPAN modules that are not included in the default repositories. Yes, I know you can add others repos to apt-get.
I read this as I am listening to Pantera, with Facebook, Slashdot, personal e-mail, and work e-mail in opened windows while doing Math homework. Apparently I am on the verge of suicide, based on this article.
All you need to know is that the US, UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand are all signatories to the UKUSA agreement, which allows for the signal intelligence agencies of said countries to share a large amount of data. Therefore, some of the information the GCSB has access to is information which originates from the NSA. So Dotcom is not just taking on the GCSB, he's taking on every signal intelligence agency of the primary English-speaking countries.
And suddenly, 50% of the nation's police force is behind bars for assault, bribery, extortion, racketeering, corruption, domestic violence, solicitation..... you get the idea.
Yes, because communication companies can always be trusted to secure their user's data. Ignore those black-suit guys with the sunglasses and the CIA/FBI/NSA badges working in the Farraday cage room with biometric security, they are NOT streaming your text messages to Langley/DC/Fort Meade for analysis. There are not Exabytes of storage capabilities at said facilities in order to "protect national security".
It's not based on the ability of the government to order companies to shut down the internet. It's merely based on the number of ISPs with connections to foreign countries. Did you notice that Afghanistan and China were both in the 10 to 40 ISP range? Because Afghanistan has so many satellite ISPs in country, each independent company which has a dish there adds one more to that ISP list.
While the Chinese government has the ability to shut down the internet based on their laws, this was a technical examination of possible network routes in and out of countries. Not a study on the legal/political aspect of an internet kill switch.
I will use LUKS when I read an article about the FBI not being able to crack it. Until then, Red Hat and the NSA have too close of a relationship for me to consider using it.
Of course, FDE only applies when used in a country with a 5th Amendment style of protection. And this assumes that law enforcement actually follows the law, which is not always the case. In some countries, it can be court ordered to hand over passwords. This would not work there.
Solution: run your Tor exit node in a country that has a 5th Amendment style of protection.
My backup plan is to encrypt my Tor exit node with TrueCrypt FDE. Yes, it means I have to run Windows, since FDE support is not available for Linux yet. However, the FBI has not been able to defeat TrueCrypt. They can say the traffic came from your internet connection, but they cannot prove that you viewed any of it.
He went on a super-secret-squirrel mission to save the world from an evil mastermind plotting to blow up the moon with a laser beam. From his office chair. In his parent's basement. Drinking Mountain Dew and eating Cheetos.
If you want someone who understands science better, then someone like Roscoe Bartlett should not have been voted out of office, given the fact that he holds a PhD is physiology and is a former NASA engineer. Stop voting for politicians, vote for people with real world experience and technical knowledge. Get rid of the lawyers and elect doctors and scientists.
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It depends. During the Derecho, there was no cable/internet signal. During other power outages (Snowmageddon in 2010), the cable/internet was unaffected.
Each area is different. During the Derecho, the main Comcast building in my area had no power, so therefore no internet. During Snowmageddon, they had a few more days notice and I saw no interruption. Between PoE and generators, I would assume Comcast was able to stay in operation.
Some electrical engineering knowledge will take you a long ways.
1. Calculate how much power you actually need during a power outage. A refrigerator is about 1,000 W. Throw in 100 W for light bulbs. TV/cable box/modem/router comes out to around 300 W (assuming flat-screen). So actually, your inverter only needs to be around 2,000 W (giving 10% cushion for device power-up). Those retail for $150-$200.
2. Charge controller is mainly for high-end systems. Try a diode or a batter isolator made for a vehicle.
3. Batteries are not that expensive. I just bought a 870 kW deep-cycle battery for my vehicle for $200. During the Derecho in July, I was able to power my TV, fridge, and laptop for over 3 hours (I turned my vehicle on every 3 hours for 10 minutes to recharge the battery). That worked for the 36 hours I was without power.
4. Auto-transfer switch is nice, but unnecessary. If you are too lazy to flip 2 circuit breakers, one to isolate your house from the gird and another to connect your inverter to your house, then you are just screwed.
Is this a feature brought to us by the wonderful engineers at the NSA?
Some GUI applications have their uses. I'd rather use Disk Utility or the LVM GUI than do it through CL. Mounting external media is much easier with a GUI, since you do not have to attempt to predict which device name that external hard drive will be given. Also, while wget can be used on CL, downloading files from the internet is a lot easier with a full on browser. For example, installing CPAN modules that are not included in the default repositories. Yes, I know you can add others repos to apt-get.
Unless you are busy downloading the world repository of pr0n, gigabit ethernet is more than enough to handle VNC.
Default install of Ubuntu-server is headless. You can type sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop and you will have a GUI.
and there's no remote desktop with a Linux server
Spending about 3.8753 seconds on Google would reveal that there are numerous Linux remote desktop clients which can be downloaded for use.
I still want to know which Steam for Linux title he's going to download and play first.
I read this as I am listening to Pantera, with Facebook, Slashdot, personal e-mail, and work e-mail in opened windows while doing Math homework. Apparently I am on the verge of suicide, based on this article.
All you need to know is that the US, UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand are all signatories to the UKUSA agreement, which allows for the signal intelligence agencies of said countries to share a large amount of data. Therefore, some of the information the GCSB has access to is information which originates from the NSA. So Dotcom is not just taking on the GCSB, he's taking on every signal intelligence agency of the primary English-speaking countries.
UKUSA information sharing agreement.
Not a bad thing at all. Power corrupts, and such a law would only exacerbate their corruption.
And suddenly, 50% of the nation's police force is behind bars for assault, bribery, extortion, racketeering, corruption, domestic violence, solicitation..... you get the idea.
Yes, because communication companies can always be trusted to secure their user's data. Ignore those black-suit guys with the sunglasses and the CIA/FBI/NSA badges working in the Farraday cage room with biometric security, they are NOT streaming your text messages to Langley/DC/Fort Meade for analysis. There are not Exabytes of storage capabilities at said facilities in order to "protect national security".
Nothing to see here folks. /sarcasm
Thank you Dice!
It's not based on the ability of the government to order companies to shut down the internet. It's merely based on the number of ISPs with connections to foreign countries. Did you notice that Afghanistan and China were both in the 10 to 40 ISP range? Because Afghanistan has so many satellite ISPs in country, each independent company which has a dish there adds one more to that ISP list.
While the Chinese government has the ability to shut down the internet based on their laws, this was a technical examination of possible network routes in and out of countries. Not a study on the legal/political aspect of an internet kill switch.
No stripper is worth a $5 tip to watch them on stage.
This has restored my faith in the capabilities of the FBI /sarcasm
I will use LUKS when I read an article about the FBI not being able to crack it. Until then, Red Hat and the NSA have too close of a relationship for me to consider using it.
Of course, FDE only applies when used in a country with a 5th Amendment style of protection. And this assumes that law enforcement actually follows the law, which is not always the case. In some countries, it can be court ordered to hand over passwords. This would not work there.
Solution: run your Tor exit node in a country that has a 5th Amendment style of protection.
My backup plan is to encrypt my Tor exit node with TrueCrypt FDE. Yes, it means I have to run Windows, since FDE support is not available for Linux yet. However, the FBI has not been able to defeat TrueCrypt. They can say the traffic came from your internet connection, but they cannot prove that you viewed any of it.
Required purchase for every evil mastermind living on an isolated island.
Let's have people who are not collecting SS with severe COPD conduct video interviews about Linux.
He went on a super-secret-squirrel mission to save the world from an evil mastermind plotting to blow up the moon with a laser beam.
From his office chair. In his parent's basement. Drinking Mountain Dew and eating Cheetos.
So how does him(her) knowing a bit about the law and some litigation mean (s)he knows any more than other people about science and technology?
FTFY, to include 50% of Congress
Define "vast majority of scientists"
If you want someone who understands science better, then someone like Roscoe Bartlett should not have been voted out of office, given the fact that he holds a PhD is physiology and is a former NASA engineer. Stop voting for politicians, vote for people with real world experience and technical knowledge. Get rid of the lawyers and elect doctors and scientists.