Breezewood. It is *not* a traveler's oasis as the local businesses like to claim. It's an abomination of price gouging and poorly timed traffic lights.
Wait, more precisely: We'd need administrators that get at least basic security training. When you see people shrug at you when you tell them that using self signed certs is not ok and you get back a "what's your problem, it IS encrypted, what else do you want?", you know that the person does not even understand what he is doing here.
Yes, because we *ALL* know how trustworthy the CA's are. With a self-signed cert, you have direct and immediate control over it. Going through a CA, you're trusting (there's that concept again) that they know what they're doing, that they're not issuing... alternative... certs that you didn't authorize, and that should your cert be compromised, they'll inform you in a timely (if at all) manner.
... Well, we'd love to comply with your potentially-lawful request and EU-search-warrant-equivalent, but in order to comply with your conversation confidentiality and privacy rules, we had to create encryption schemes designed from the very start to be unbreakable because we don't have the keys, nor a way to download them.
Just ask your company. Even though they've decided not to continue using and improving that particular project, they gain nothing by withholding the fixes, but could gain developer goodwill (useful in future endeavors) and positive PR (always nice to have) by allowing the patches to at least be submitted upstream, even if they're not ultimately merged.
If your organization is small enough, send screenshots together with the report, or if you have some kind of desktop sharing ability (remote assistance, Lync), take your dev through the process of how to trigger the bug. Just had an issue yesterday where they couldn't reproduce it, so we fired up a screen sharing process, they had me load up the Firefox debug console, and I went through the steps... turned out to be my mouse having a higher dpi than what they were using, so instead of getting floats, my system was handing them doubles.
Apple has at least 20 years of prior art to fall back on here. While it didn't always work exceedingly well, I clearly remember telling the Mac in my high school library's material office (where us helper rats did things like laminate posters for teachers) things like "Marie, run Myst," and a minute later, hearing the opening theme play.
Apple has at least 20 years of prior art to fall back on here. While it didn't always work exceedingly well, I clearly remember telling the Mac in my high school library's material office (where us helper rats did things like laminate posters for teachers) things like "Marie, run Myst," and a minute later, hearing the opening theme play.
I see this very early entry to the public Internet is sadly missing from the article. CFN (https://wiki.case.edu/Cleveland_Freenet) provided message boards, IRC, USENet, MUDs/MOOs, and just about every other service provided by the fledgling Internet was there, including email (with gateways to FIDO, CIS, and a few others), to anybody with a modem, for free. The FreePort software was also published under (I believe) a 4-clause BSD license, giving rise to myriad offspring, some of which might still be around (though hopefully not running FreePort anymore).
...or am I the only one around who remembers that totally cheesy, yet elementary schoolkid riveting, post-apocalyptic edutainment show "Tomes and Talismans"
On a premium niche network, these are people that are specifically interested in a narrow segment of content that the network is carrying and not just putting that channel on because Son of Sharktopus is on. You know more about these people and can spend more money marketing to them because they have the money to spend not only on cable but on a premium channel.
Let's not forget that SG1 started on Showtime, and Game of Thrones is doing *quite* well on HBO. The market is there. Maybe Syfy can't do it, but someone can, and I hope they do.
EVE Online trailers in the middle of Battlestar Galactica. Can't target your advertising any better than that. End of line.
I can honestly say you win either way. The electricity/cost savings of containment will pay for itself regardless of where you put the doors. That said, whether you choose to go HAC or CAC is really choosing between different trade-offs.
HAC (The APC method): Seemed to be cheaper and easier to install. Since the hot aisle is being contained, if something happens to your coolers, you have a longer ride-through time as there's a much larger volume of cold air to draw from. However, at least when I got out of the business, HAC *required* the use of in-row cooling, and with APC, that meant water in your rows. Europeans don't seem to mind that, but Americans do (which provided an opening for Emerson's XD phase-change systems, dunno if APC has an equivalent or not yet). I personally wouldn't be too keen on having to spend more than a few minutes inside that hot aisle, either.
CAC (The Emerson method): Seemed to be more expensive, especially in refit scenarios (they appeared to be more focused on winning the big "green-field" jobs more than upgrading old sites), but it can usually leverage existing CRAC units, so you could potentially save enough there to make it competitive, as well as avoid vendor lock-in. The whole room becomes the equivalent of a hot aisle, but convection and the building's HVAC can somewhat mitigate that, so it'll still be uncomfortable working behind a rack, it doesn't feel quite the sauna that an HAC system does. Depending on whose CRAC equipment you buy (or already have), EC plug fans and VSD-driven blowers can save even more money if properly configured.
Other: I've seen the "Tower of Cool" or "chimney" style system, and flat out hate it. They look like a great idea on the face of it: much cheaper, faster installation, able to use building HVAC, etc. But let's be honest. Your servers are designed for front-to-rear airflow. So are the SANs, NASs, TBUs, rack UPSs, and practically everything else you've put in your datacenter, apart from those screwball Cisco routers that have a side-to-side pattern (Seriously... what WERE they thinking on that one???). Why would you then try to establish an upwards-pointed airflow that's got a giant suction hose at the center of the rack's roof, where it can just as easily pull cold air from the front (starving your systems) as it does hot air from the back?
Personally, I like cold aisle better. If I'm going to be spending two hours sitting behind a server because I can't do something via remote (forced into untangling the network cable rat's nest, perhaps), I like the idea of being merely uncomfortable and a bit sweaty than dripping buckets while cursing the bean-counters who forced me to lay off the PFY two months ago. There are also some neat controllers that work with CRAC units to establish just the right amount of airflow to fully feed the row and manage their output, so if running five CRACs at 50% is more power efficient than running three at 100%, that's what they do. I know folks who like hot aisle better. It's more fun for them to show-off their prize datacenter since all the areas you'd want to see (unless you're the one responsible for power strips or cable management) are cool.
This is the second game in just the past two weeks to suffer MAJOR headaches with ATI video cards... CCP's EVE-Online Dominion expansion has also been plagued by ATI-related video problems, artifacts, and outright crashing.
HRM's on kids in gym class are pointless. In order to be truly effective, they have to be programmed with data that only comes from performing metabolic tests on EACH kid, INDIVIDUALLY. No way the school's going to spend that kind of time on a bunch of rugrats. Likewise, unless they're having you buy some kind of super-mega-intelligent-swissarmyknife monitor, the most it's going to say is "Your heart's going 88 beats per minute." Maybe it'll spit out some sort of "You've burned 42 calories" along with that, but without that metabolic test, that calorie number's bunk. Hell, I've got a $400 watch+strap, and while it gives me lots of other info (calories burned, time spent in exercise zones, peak and average heart rate, average lap time, bluetooth comms for data transfer to my desktop, yaddayadda), it still wouldn't be able to tell me if my heart's about to go into tachycardia, fibrillation, or some other form of improper operation. Sorry, but apart from the "gee whiz" technology factor, there is nothing to be gained by doing this. Throw the kids a soccer ball and tell 'em to keep it on the blacktop.
The problem, though, is that in legalese, words don't mean the same thing that they do in common usage, so even reading the whole thing through, common street dweller Joe will think it means one thing, but a lawyer will argue it means something else. Since the ToS/EULA/Contract/Whatever was written by and for lawyers, they win every time, leaving Joe with the bill and about a hundred other street dwellers going "WTF???"
God forbid anybody write their ToS in regular, everyday, guy-on-the-street English (or the local language of choice). If it weren't for all the legalese written by lawyers, for lawyers, that only a third lawyer could understand, this sort of crap wouldn't happen. Instead, you end up with pages and pages of babble that most people don't understand, and therefore won't bother to read. IANAL, but couldn't that be grounds to have the whole thing thrown out on the notion of "How can I competently agree to something if I don't have a law degree to understand the blasted thing?"
I have absolutely no clue why the ACLU has their knickers in a twist over this. Back before the "Help America Vote Act", when nearly the ENTIRE STATE used punch cards, after poking your holes, you slipped the ballot into an envelope, dropped it in a locked box, and that was the last you ever saw of it. That box went off to a CENTRAL tabulation facility, and if you over/under voted, or had a hanging chad, tough shit. There was no "Hey, this isn't right, would you like to try again?" Then we got touchscreens, and now optical, and the ACLU thinks central counting is a problem? Frack me... how about they go fight for predatory lenders and corrupt laws instead.
Income is greatly influenced by luck, ability and location (local cost of living). If an individual engineer hasn't cracked $50k with 6 years of experience, at least one of those things is low.
In my case, there's a combination... Bad luck: My first layoff was a direct consequence of the 9/11 attacks. The time it took the DoD to process my security clearance exceeded contract limits, so the direct-hire option couldn't be exercised. If I were still with them, I'd likely be around $60k and nearly done with my MSEE.
Location: No bones about it, Ohio manufacturing has been in the dumps for years, so cost of living is low, and employers know they can offer less and still get good talent.
Actually, I have every clue as to what I'm talking about. I *HAVE* an Electrical Engineering degree. In only three years, I was laid off twice (cause, well, nothing personal, but you're the low guy on the totem pole). Six years after graduating, I'm *maybe* going to break the $50k barrier. I'll bet you're pulling your numbers from some NACE graduation survey. Well guess what... those numbers are crap. Who's going to report that their starting salary was only $40k, when the "average" is about $55k, and make themselves look stupid for not at least meeting it?
I'll grant that you made a good choice going into big iron. It's a very non-glam industry, but those who learn it well do make nice coin (as your experience shows).
But you still miss the point. Why should someone who has toiled in the trenches, researching and inventing "the next big thing" their entire life, have their salary top out for maybe a tenth (I'm being generous at $500k) of what a glorified beancounter (CEO at $5M) gets? How big a bonus do you think the iPod/iTMS team was given for the millions it's made Apple? The PlayStation group at Sony? The Wii? Sure, and engineering degree opens a lot more doors than, say, classical music, but don't tell me I'm on drugs just because I happen to be one of those in the trenches.
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Breezewood. It is *not* a traveler's oasis as the local businesses like to claim. It's an abomination of price gouging and poorly timed traffic lights.
Sent as ripples into the electromagnetic field. No single photon has been harmed in the process..
But several electrons were greatly inconvenienced, and are now considering a class-action lawsuit for lost wages.
Myself I’d trust him to the end of the earth.
Yes but how far is that?
About twelve minutes away. Come on I need a drink
Wait, more precisely: We'd need administrators that get at least basic security training. When you see people shrug at you when you tell them that using self signed certs is not ok and you get back a "what's your problem, it IS encrypted, what else do you want?", you know that the person does not even understand what he is doing here.
Yes, because we *ALL* know how trustworthy the CA's are. With a self-signed cert, you have direct and immediate control over it. Going through a CA, you're trusting (there's that concept again) that they know what they're doing, that they're not issuing... alternative... certs that you didn't authorize, and that should your cert be compromised, they'll inform you in a timely (if at all) manner.
... Well, we'd love to comply with your potentially-lawful request and EU-search-warrant-equivalent, but in order to comply with your conversation confidentiality and privacy rules, we had to create encryption schemes designed from the very start to be unbreakable because we don't have the keys, nor a way to download them.
Meet live-usage QNX is a modern product: Vykon JACE (You'll find these all over the embedded systems world). http://www.vykon.com/products/...
MacGyver, to be specific.
Just ask your company. Even though they've decided not to continue using and improving that particular project, they gain nothing by withholding the fixes, but could gain developer goodwill (useful in future endeavors) and positive PR (always nice to have) by allowing the patches to at least be submitted upstream, even if they're not ultimately merged.
If your organization is small enough, send screenshots together with the report, or if you have some kind of desktop sharing ability (remote assistance, Lync), take your dev through the process of how to trigger the bug. Just had an issue yesterday where they couldn't reproduce it, so we fired up a screen sharing process, they had me load up the Firefox debug console, and I went through the steps... turned out to be my mouse having a higher dpi than what they were using, so instead of getting floats, my system was handing them doubles.
Surprised I haven't seen this mentioned, but in addition to MSE, Microsoft also offers a second exploit prevention/mitigation tool called EMET http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29851
Apple has at least 20 years of prior art to fall back on here. While it didn't always work exceedingly well, I clearly remember telling the Mac in my high school library's material office (where us helper rats did things like laminate posters for teachers) things like "Marie, run Myst," and a minute later, hearing the opening theme play.
Apple has at least 20 years of prior art to fall back on here. While it didn't always work exceedingly well, I clearly remember telling the Mac in my high school library's material office (where us helper rats did things like laminate posters for teachers) things like "Marie, run Myst," and a minute later, hearing the opening theme play.
Then perhaps you can explain to the assembled crowd why I've had three so-called "TSA Approved" locks cut off my baggage over the last few years.
I see this very early entry to the public Internet is sadly missing from the article. CFN (https://wiki.case.edu/Cleveland_Freenet) provided message boards, IRC, USENet, MUDs/MOOs, and just about every other service provided by the fledgling Internet was there, including email (with gateways to FIDO, CIS, and a few others), to anybody with a modem, for free. The FreePort software was also published under (I believe) a 4-clause BSD license, giving rise to myriad offspring, some of which might still be around (though hopefully not running FreePort anymore).
...or am I the only one around who remembers that totally cheesy, yet elementary schoolkid riveting, post-apocalyptic edutainment show "Tomes and Talismans"
On a premium niche network, these are people that are specifically interested in a narrow segment of content that the network is carrying and not just putting that channel on because Son of Sharktopus is on. You know more about these people and can spend more money marketing to them because they have the money to spend not only on cable but on a premium channel.
Let's not forget that SG1 started on Showtime, and Game of Thrones is doing *quite* well on HBO. The market is there. Maybe Syfy can't do it, but someone can, and I hope they do.
EVE Online trailers in the middle of Battlestar Galactica. Can't target your advertising any better than that.
End of line.
I can honestly say you win either way. The electricity/cost savings of containment will pay for itself regardless of where you put the doors. That said, whether you choose to go HAC or CAC is really choosing between different trade-offs.
HAC (The APC method): Seemed to be cheaper and easier to install. Since the hot aisle is being contained, if something happens to your coolers, you have a longer ride-through time as there's a much larger volume of cold air to draw from. However, at least when I got out of the business, HAC *required* the use of in-row cooling, and with APC, that meant water in your rows. Europeans don't seem to mind that, but Americans do (which provided an opening for Emerson's XD phase-change systems, dunno if APC has an equivalent or not yet). I personally wouldn't be too keen on having to spend more than a few minutes inside that hot aisle, either.
CAC (The Emerson method): Seemed to be more expensive, especially in refit scenarios (they appeared to be more focused on winning the big "green-field" jobs more than upgrading old sites), but it can usually leverage existing CRAC units, so you could potentially save enough there to make it competitive, as well as avoid vendor lock-in. The whole room becomes the equivalent of a hot aisle, but convection and the building's HVAC can somewhat mitigate that, so it'll still be uncomfortable working behind a rack, it doesn't feel quite the sauna that an HAC system does. Depending on whose CRAC equipment you buy (or already have), EC plug fans and VSD-driven blowers can save even more money if properly configured.
Other: I've seen the "Tower of Cool" or "chimney" style system, and flat out hate it. They look like a great idea on the face of it: much cheaper, faster installation, able to use building HVAC, etc. But let's be honest. Your servers are designed for front-to-rear airflow. So are the SANs, NASs, TBUs, rack UPSs, and practically everything else you've put in your datacenter, apart from those screwball Cisco routers that have a side-to-side pattern (Seriously... what WERE they thinking on that one???). Why would you then try to establish an upwards-pointed airflow that's got a giant suction hose at the center of the rack's roof, where it can just as easily pull cold air from the front (starving your systems) as it does hot air from the back?
Personally, I like cold aisle better. If I'm going to be spending two hours sitting behind a server because I can't do something via remote (forced into untangling the network cable rat's nest, perhaps), I like the idea of being merely uncomfortable and a bit sweaty than dripping buckets while cursing the bean-counters who forced me to lay off the PFY two months ago. There are also some neat controllers that work with CRAC units to establish just the right amount of airflow to fully feed the row and manage their output, so if running five CRACs at 50% is more power efficient than running three at 100%, that's what they do. I know folks who like hot aisle better. It's more fun for them to show-off their prize datacenter since all the areas you'd want to see (unless you're the one responsible for power strips or cable management) are cool.
This is the second game in just the past two weeks to suffer MAJOR headaches with ATI video cards... CCP's EVE-Online Dominion expansion has also been plagued by ATI-related video problems, artifacts, and outright crashing.
Errmm... I could have sworn that Clancy called it "Canary," not "The Smoking Word Processor." Either way, it's 20-year old prior art.
HRM's on kids in gym class are pointless. In order to be truly effective, they have to be programmed with data that only comes from performing metabolic tests on EACH kid, INDIVIDUALLY. No way the school's going to spend that kind of time on a bunch of rugrats. Likewise, unless they're having you buy some kind of super-mega-intelligent-swissarmyknife monitor, the most it's going to say is "Your heart's going 88 beats per minute." Maybe it'll spit out some sort of "You've burned 42 calories" along with that, but without that metabolic test, that calorie number's bunk. Hell, I've got a $400 watch+strap, and while it gives me lots of other info (calories burned, time spent in exercise zones, peak and average heart rate, average lap time, bluetooth comms for data transfer to my desktop, yaddayadda), it still wouldn't be able to tell me if my heart's about to go into tachycardia, fibrillation, or some other form of improper operation. Sorry, but apart from the "gee whiz" technology factor, there is nothing to be gained by doing this. Throw the kids a soccer ball and tell 'em to keep it on the blacktop.
The problem, though, is that in legalese, words don't mean the same thing that they do in common usage, so even reading the whole thing through, common street dweller Joe will think it means one thing, but a lawyer will argue it means something else. Since the ToS/EULA/Contract/Whatever was written by and for lawyers, they win every time, leaving Joe with the bill and about a hundred other street dwellers going "WTF???"
God forbid anybody write their ToS in regular, everyday, guy-on-the-street English (or the local language of choice). If it weren't for all the legalese written by lawyers, for lawyers, that only a third lawyer could understand, this sort of crap wouldn't happen. Instead, you end up with pages and pages of babble that most people don't understand, and therefore won't bother to read. IANAL, but couldn't that be grounds to have the whole thing thrown out on the notion of "How can I competently agree to something if I don't have a law degree to understand the blasted thing?"
I have absolutely no clue why the ACLU has their knickers in a twist over this. Back before the "Help America Vote Act", when nearly the ENTIRE STATE used punch cards, after poking your holes, you slipped the ballot into an envelope, dropped it in a locked box, and that was the last you ever saw of it. That box went off to a CENTRAL tabulation facility, and if you over/under voted, or had a hanging chad, tough shit. There was no "Hey, this isn't right, would you like to try again?" Then we got touchscreens, and now optical, and the ACLU thinks central counting is a problem? Frack me... how about they go fight for predatory lenders and corrupt laws instead.
In my case, there's a combination...
Bad luck: My first layoff was a direct consequence of the 9/11 attacks. The time it took the DoD to process my security clearance exceeded contract limits, so the direct-hire option couldn't be exercised. If I were still with them, I'd likely be around $60k and nearly done with my MSEE.
Location: No bones about it, Ohio manufacturing has been in the dumps for years, so cost of living is low, and employers know they can offer less and still get good talent.
Actually, I have every clue as to what I'm talking about. I *HAVE* an Electrical Engineering degree. In only three years, I was laid off twice (cause, well, nothing personal, but you're the low guy on the totem pole). Six years after graduating, I'm *maybe* going to break the $50k barrier. I'll bet you're pulling your numbers from some NACE graduation survey. Well guess what... those numbers are crap. Who's going to report that their starting salary was only $40k, when the "average" is about $55k, and make themselves look stupid for not at least meeting it?
I'll grant that you made a good choice going into big iron. It's a very non-glam industry, but those who learn it well do make nice coin (as your experience shows).
But you still miss the point. Why should someone who has toiled in the trenches, researching and inventing "the next big thing" their entire life, have their salary top out for maybe a tenth (I'm being generous at $500k) of what a glorified beancounter (CEO at $5M) gets? How big a bonus do you think the iPod/iTMS team was given for the millions it's made Apple? The PlayStation group at Sony? The Wii? Sure, and engineering degree opens a lot more doors than, say, classical music, but don't tell me I'm on drugs just because I happen to be one of those in the trenches.