Why go to that expense? I went to the local home cheapo store and bought 4 8"x8" concrete blocks for $1 each. Lift your current desk up on the blocks. I've been this way for two years now and it's made a huge difference in sciatica pain but it also improves my concentration when I'm working. Can't really let my mind drift or I'll fall over.:)
Green Bay Professional Packet Radio - probably has done the most work in this area. http://www.qsl.net/n9zia/
Amateur Radio packet radio has been around since the late 80s. There's a new approach being tested as a wireless WAN on HF. http://uspacket.org/network/in...
Yes, you do need a license, but encryption is not allowed on any amateur frequencies - unless it's the control channel for a ham satellite. ARRL tried to get an exception for ARES to transmit HIPAA data via packet encrypted, but FCC denied the petition. Anyone with a receiver and the Fldigi software can listen in.
I did the same as you, built up home NAS box, and yes it worked for backups. Then I found out about Amazon S3, and with the available s3cmd scripts, it's pretty easy automating backups to S3. Good news is, I spend about $.50USD/month - that's fifty cents per month on this backup strategy. It's offsite, which is good. It's as fast as your broadband connection, and it's available globally. IIRC, they also offer storage in other countries too, and offer an API to develop your own software to S3.
The good news is that the reports format itself is backwards compatible.
Well, mostly this is true. I have several reports from CR5 days, that have had small modifications to them over the years, then saved as the newer format. After so many saved as,this will cause the report to not work like the previous version. What I've had to do to get around this was to create a new blank Crystal Report, in my last case in XI, recreate all the db connections, gather all the tables, and recreate all the links. Then, start copying over elements from the old formatted report to the new one. The new report will work just fine after that point. So, not sure what the differences are between formats that cause issues with tables and linking... What would be really cool would be the.rpt file format spec...
I've been interested in Applied Math for some time, and have completed some courses at the local JC as a refresher to my BSCS. Attending Graduate School is very appealing, but I'm interested in math, Computational Science. Although I have an understanding employer, and family, there's no way I could attend traditional classes. I don't see why a math degree couldn't be done online, and there is one through Texas A&M University , but it's not exactly what I'm interested in. MIT has very nice OpenCourseware MIT OpenCourseWare | OCW Home, but it's not a degree granting program. Maybe some/.ers might know of others.
It was ham radio that got me into computers. Something about hooking my Vic20 up to my Hallicrafters HT32B, and Drake 2A to send and receive morse code was all that it took. I know people are saying there's nothing good that comes out of ham radio, but they are wrong, dead wrong. It's been a driving force in my education and my career. My kids are showing an interest in ham radio, and I hope it'll stay around for them to learn from..mark
I've been on Atkins for the last 6 months. Total weight loss - 38 pounds. Now, I'm not what you'd consider an overweight person. I'm male, 6' tall and weighed 215 pounds. I'm also an avid distance runner for the last 23 years. A typical workout schedule for a week is:
Mon: Off
Tue: 8 miles AM
Wed: 5 miles tempo
Thu: 8 miles
Fri: 5 miles speed or hillwork
Sat: 5 miles easy
Sun: 2 hour trail runs at 6000+ feet about 15 miles
When I was on my old way of eating, high carbs, low fat, I was gaining weight at around 2 pounds every 6 months. No matter what I did, count calories, fat calories, grapefruit diet, double my weekly mileage, etc - nothing worked. I also had some serious gastrointestinal problems. Everynight I'd get woken up with a flood of acid racing up my esophagus. I couldn't sleep more than 2 hours at a time because I'd wake up in pretty serious hip, back and shoulder joint pain. I'm only 36 and I felt like I was 60! I could never get enough sleep, 10 hours in bed was just not enough.
My Dr recommended Atkins, and when I first read about it, I thought he was an instant quack. I decided to give it a try anyway - WTF. Lost 11 pounds my first week, 14 pounds after 2 weeks induction. Now, I did have some adaptation to do with my running. After being on Atkins for about 3 weeks, I was out on my normal Wed run. I stopped after about 2 miles in complete pain - severe cramps in my legs. It took over an hour to walk back to my truck. Well, I needed to take vitamins. I never really liked taking vitamins, but started anyway. After taking them for a few days, leg cramps went away.
Today, I have no problems running even longer distances than before. All the gastro problems are gone, and no more night time joint pain. I can sleep through the night without any of the above problems. I usually get between 6 and 7 hours per night, and that's all I feel I need. Since taking the vitamins, the leg cramps are gone. Running the longer distance would leave me totally wiped out on my old eating plan, and craving some serious carbs post workout. On Atkins, that doesn't happen. My recovery from hard/long workouts seem much faster than before, and I have no more cravings for carbs afterwards. Instead of spending the rest of Sunday afternoon in bed sleeping, I'm out working around the house, chasing the kids, or whatever. Don't need that much rest anymore. It's been well worth it for me.
The hardest part about Atkins is changing your cooking habits. That took about 6 weeks to really get a handle on. I usually plan breakfasts and lunches for the week, cooking what I need on Sunday night. My wife supports me 100%, and makes sure dinner follows the plan.
Our children are benefiting as well. My oldest is like his father, weight gain around the middle. Our middle child has slight ADD, and our younges was prone to extreme tantrums and outbursts. My wife and I simply eliminated white sugar, and limit white flour food, and the transformation has been tremendous! Our oldest has not gained as much weight in the last 6 months, but continues to get taller. He's looking trimmer, and loosing his middle. Our middle child has pretty much dropped his ADD ways, and is really excelling in school. Our youngest has less and less tantrums, is really improving. Now, I don't recommend induction for children, or anything radical. Your pediatrician is your best friend. All we did was eliminate as much as possible white flour and white sugar... That small change was all it took.
It seems a lot of things can be related to over carbing in our diets. Going from 325 grams per day, to about 60 is all it takes.
I wouldn't use Mondo/Mindi to back up an entire system, but the ability to restore the OS, partitions, and regular backup software on a bootable CD is a great idea. Just boot, follow the screens, and go with it. Once all the partitions rebuilt, system is up and running, then you could use your other backup software to restore data, user files, etc.
I'm fighting that right now with Arkeia. If the backup server takes a dive, you will be in a world of hurt, even if you have the on-disk dbtree saved somewhere. No matter what, that on-disk dbtree will always be out of sync with the backup on tape. You'll have to read the tape via arkrstrdb to rebuild the dbtree from all the files on the tape. If for some reason you can't use the Arkeia gui, you'll have to rely on readarkeia to dump the contents of the tape to disk. The problem with this is, all the rights/permissions will be whatever user runs the readarkeia.
I'm taking this from the trenches, on a system with 1TB of data. It's been a royal pain with Arkeia these last few days. The thoughts of a two pass backup system shows promise. The steroid based Arkeia to handle all the other servers in my mixed environment, and Monda/Mindi to handle quick recovery of *nix boxes, then finish restoring with Arkeia..
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I've used HRD for about a year and won't be renewing my license for it. I'm looking at FLDigi & Log4om to replace it. I mostly contest and use N1MM+
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Why go to that expense? I went to the local home cheapo store and bought 4 8"x8" concrete blocks for $1 each. Lift your current desk up on the blocks. I've been this way for two years now and it's made a huge difference in sciatica pain but it also improves my concentration when I'm working. Can't really let my mind drift or I'll fall over. :)
This idea has been around for a very long time:
http://servv89pn0aj.sn.sourced...
Green Bay Professional Packet Radio - probably has done the most work in this area.
http://www.qsl.net/n9zia/
Amateur Radio packet radio has been around since the late 80s. There's a new approach being tested as a wireless WAN on HF.
http://uspacket.org/network/in...
Yes, you do need a license, but encryption is not allowed on any amateur frequencies - unless it's the control channel for a ham satellite. ARRL tried to get an exception for ARES to transmit HIPAA data via packet encrypted, but FCC denied the petition. Anyone with a receiver and the Fldigi software can listen in.
I thought it was MySpace...
I did the same as you, built up home NAS box, and yes it worked for backups. Then I found out about Amazon S3, and with the available s3cmd scripts, it's pretty easy automating backups to S3. Good news is, I spend about $.50USD/month - that's fifty cents per month on this backup strategy. It's offsite, which is good. It's as fast as your broadband connection, and it's available globally. IIRC, they also offer storage in other countries too, and offer an API to develop your own software to S3.
Well worth it, IMHO.
Well, mostly this is true. I have several reports from CR5 days, that have had small modifications to them over the years, then saved as the newer format. After so many saved as,this will cause the report to not work like the previous version. What I've had to do to get around this was to create a new blank Crystal Report, in my last case in XI, recreate all the db connections, gather all the tables, and recreate all the links. Then, start copying over elements from the old formatted report to the new one. The new report will work just fine after that point. So, not sure what the differences are between formats that cause issues with tables and linking... What would be really cool would be the
I've been interested in Applied Math for some time, and have completed some courses at the local JC as a refresher to my BSCS. Attending Graduate School is very appealing, but I'm interested in math, Computational Science. Although I have an understanding employer, and family, there's no way I could attend traditional classes. I don't see why a math degree couldn't be done online, and there is one through Texas A&M University , but it's not exactly what I'm interested in. MIT has very nice OpenCourseware MIT OpenCourseWare | OCW Home, but it's not a degree granting program. Maybe some /.ers might know of others.
It was ham radio that got me into computers. Something about hooking my Vic20 up to my Hallicrafters HT32B, and Drake 2A to send and receive morse code was all that it took. I know people are saying there's nothing good that comes out of ham radio, but they are wrong, dead wrong. It's been a driving force in my education and my career. My kids are showing an interest in ham radio, and I hope it'll stay around for them to learn from. .mark
I've been on Atkins for the last 6 months. Total weight loss - 38 pounds. Now, I'm not what you'd consider an overweight person. I'm male, 6' tall and weighed 215 pounds. I'm also an avid distance runner for the last 23 years. A typical workout schedule for a week is:
Mon: Off
Tue: 8 miles AM
Wed: 5 miles tempo
Thu: 8 miles
Fri: 5 miles speed or hillwork
Sat: 5 miles easy
Sun: 2 hour trail runs at 6000+ feet about 15 miles
When I was on my old way of eating, high carbs, low fat, I was gaining weight at around 2 pounds every 6 months. No matter what I did, count calories, fat calories, grapefruit diet, double my weekly mileage, etc - nothing worked. I also had some serious gastrointestinal problems. Everynight I'd get woken up with a flood of acid racing up my esophagus. I couldn't sleep more than 2 hours at a time because I'd wake up in pretty serious hip, back and shoulder joint pain. I'm only 36 and I felt like I was 60! I could never get enough sleep, 10 hours in bed was just not enough.
My Dr recommended Atkins, and when I first read about it, I thought he was an instant quack. I decided to give it a try anyway - WTF. Lost 11 pounds my first week, 14 pounds after 2 weeks induction. Now, I did have some adaptation to do with my running. After being on Atkins for about 3 weeks, I was out on my normal Wed run. I stopped after about 2 miles in complete pain - severe cramps in my legs. It took over an hour to walk back to my truck. Well, I needed to take vitamins. I never really liked taking vitamins, but started anyway. After taking them for a few days, leg cramps went away.
Today, I have no problems running even longer distances than before. All the gastro problems are gone, and no more night time joint pain. I can sleep through the night without any of the above problems. I usually get between 6 and 7 hours per night, and that's all I feel I need. Since taking the vitamins, the leg cramps are gone. Running the longer distance would leave me totally wiped out on my old eating plan, and craving some serious carbs post workout. On Atkins, that doesn't happen. My recovery from hard/long workouts seem much faster than before, and I have no more cravings for carbs afterwards. Instead of spending the rest of Sunday afternoon in bed sleeping, I'm out working around the house, chasing the kids, or whatever. Don't need that much rest anymore. It's been well worth it for me.
The hardest part about Atkins is changing your cooking habits. That took about 6 weeks to really get a handle on. I usually plan breakfasts and lunches for the week, cooking what I need on Sunday night. My wife supports me 100%, and makes sure dinner follows the plan.
Our children are benefiting as well. My oldest is like his father, weight gain around the middle. Our middle child has slight ADD, and our younges was prone to extreme tantrums and outbursts. My wife and I simply eliminated white sugar, and limit white flour food, and the transformation has been tremendous! Our oldest has not gained as much weight in the last 6 months, but continues to get taller. He's looking trimmer, and loosing his middle. Our middle child has pretty much dropped his ADD ways, and is really excelling in school. Our youngest has less and less tantrums, is really improving. Now, I don't recommend induction for children, or anything radical. Your pediatrician is your best friend. All we did was eliminate as much as possible white flour and white sugar... That small change was all it took.
It seems a lot of things can be related to over carbing in our diets. Going from 325 grams per day, to about 60 is all it takes.
I wouldn't use Mondo/Mindi to back up an entire system, but the ability to restore the OS, partitions, and regular backup software on a bootable CD is a great idea. Just boot, follow the screens, and go with it. Once all the partitions rebuilt, system is up and running, then you could use your other backup software to restore data, user files, etc.
I'm fighting that right now with Arkeia. If the backup server takes a dive, you will be in a world of hurt, even if you have the on-disk dbtree saved somewhere. No matter what, that on-disk dbtree will always be out of sync with the backup on tape. You'll have to read the tape via arkrstrdb to rebuild the dbtree from all the files on the tape. If for some reason you can't use the Arkeia gui, you'll have to rely on readarkeia to dump the contents of the tape to disk. The problem with this is, all the rights/permissions will be whatever user runs the readarkeia.
I'm taking this from the trenches, on a system with 1TB of data. It's been a royal pain with Arkeia these last few days. The thoughts of a two pass backup system shows promise. The steroid based Arkeia to handle all the other servers in my mixed environment, and Monda/Mindi to handle quick recovery of *nix boxes, then finish restoring with Arkeia..
Sacreligous I tell ya!!