Once about 6 years ago we had a similar situation involving an Ethernet splitter. Any ports that had a splitter on them had to have their settings changed because of a potential problem.
This port wasn't set up right, someone borrowed a splitter, then their contract was up so they tried to be "helpful" when packing up and plugged both ends of the cable into the splitter, then plugged it into the wall to "keep track of it." Apparently something in the switch didn't like what it saw, there was a huge problem with the spanning tree, and blamo - all the switches on the backbone had to be reset manually.
I could see how plugging one cable into two ports could cause similar (or even worse) confusion if such a bug existed.
This was an older Cisco switch, probably 55xx series, running CatOS. The problem that caused it is fixed by now, I'm sure, but the parent poster didn't say how long ago their failure was.
Get a clock radio with two alarm timers (very common, at least in USA). Set one for "music" and set the second for "alarm" 10 minutes later. I do that on my alarm clock.
now you can use it at the internet cafe, or at home and at work or school, or the business center at the hotel or whatever, and you don't have to wait for the world to catch up and add support in their drivers, or worry about whether the hotel is running Windows 98 still or whether your office will allow the drivers or whatnot.
It's a lot more enabling to give someone a small device that solves their problem discreetly rather than no option except to wait for the world to a) realize a problem and b) work to fix it on a wide scale.
Last Monday, February 21 (Presidents Day). My dad used to actually get both Washington and Lincoln's birthdays off but eventually that was changed to President's Day too.
Before that was Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrated through much of the USA.
Of course, there's always Christmas (for some), and I'm sure other countries have kings or queens or saints or other people they like to have a good cheer about.
all in all I'd say a lot of people celebrate the birthdays of dead people worldwide. Unless they work in retail in the US, because then they probably have to go sell stuff to everyone else who isn't working.
Well, sure, receipts are still optional. The machine can print them or not, the customer can request it or not, it's all up to the merchant (for the most part) and the customer (to a more limited extent).
But look at a fast food place. Some of them give you a receipt and some don't. You can get a receipt at the ones that don't, but for the most part (in my area anyway) you don't get one by default. You have to ask and they go grab it.
Doesn't sound like it would matter, but it does. In a lot of cases it speeds lines up which equals lots of savings. A few seconds here and there adds up when you've got a lot of people.
They would have to maintain two SKU of every item (Firewire and USB) and at that point it would probably cost just as much to put both cables in each box.
Also, retailers probably wouldn't stock the Firewire version since there's less of a market need for it.
I'm sure if Apple thought it would sell, they would do it. As it is, Apple cables are $20 and aftermarket cables will probably be even cheaper.
they are sending the same files to the iPod regardless of the transmission method.
It's either 400MB firewire or 480MB USB2. The sound quality will be exactly the same either way. iPod is basically a big ol' hard drive to the host computer and no audio translation takes place over the wire, just file transfers...
Alpine has head units that are fairly inexpensive. I think their CD changer to iPod thing is just using their AINet protocol so any of their newer heads that support cd changers should work. That includes some that are probably in the $100-$200 range or so.
I was just looking at one recently and I think I came up with about $350 or so for what I wanted. Of course I already have an iPod with the appropriate connector.
The credit card industry is pretty used to fixing problems like this anyway... it comes up a lot when new card number formats come up, etc. As much as you think you can think ahead, something eventually bites you in the rear.
The core systems of the various processing companies were generally in order well before the cards were issued, it was just a matter of finding which of the millions of terminals etc were messed up.
A lot of merchant terminals and point of sale software had date problems that would cause the 2000 or later cards to be rejected. Not really the merchant's fault - Joe's Fishing Shack didn't write the software on his credit card machine. But it did affect some of those transactions.
Luckily there aren't a lot of manufacturers of those. If there was a problem, say, with a verifone terminal (just picking on the most common maker), they could easily get updated firmware out through their support channels with low impact to the end user and fix a major chunk of any problems that happened to be there all at once.
Websites that had credit card processing code etc. might have been another story. You can't fix every 1a-buymystuffnow.com's order page to take 4 digits instead of 2, etc, you can just call them and tell them that their stuff's broken.
This is really why they are pushing federated identity so hard in various circles.
The solutions to multiple tokens are either to use a federated identity scheme where authentication may come from a business partner but authorization comes from your own systems (MS Passport, Liberty Alliance, etc) or to put certificates on smart cards that you already might have (e.g. a EMV chip card that also stores "money") so that having many tokens is not really a problem. It's possible that you could do both - have federated identity with smart card tokens. This will probably happen someday.
The former is probably a huge challenge in the area of contracts, working agreements, protocols, etc etc etc. but it's being pursued because it's a good idea and would ultimately be worth the challenge. The latter is pretty easy except in USA where smart cards are not so prevalent. I guess contactless chip (RFID) could work for this purpose though...
For the tin foil hat crowd, please note that "federated" does not mean "federal." Although it's perfectly conceivable that the government could provide this authentication service to its citizens/wards (and some countries probably already do), it probably wouldn't happen in the USA for various reasons IMO.
needless to say, if you're in the same situation I am in and your company has a contracts negotiation team like mine does, you will have no problem with solid cabinet doors. The only issue will be whether it's worth the money to spec them or just to buy vented doors.
be a business analyst, not a tech geek. it pays better.:)
You mentioned seeing another angle with vents, but racks in really good data centers really don't need front/back vents for airflow. They tend to work on a sort of forced air system, cooled air is blown under the floor which is then forced up holes and/or removed floor tiles under each rack. Then, depending on need, the rack will usually have high volume fans built into the top which blow hot air up, out, and away from the rack.
The data center I currently deal with uses only the air through the floor, but it's only a couple years old and the HVAC systems were sized properly. The top fans would be a waste so they're left unplugged.
The original theatrical version was released (3 parts) and this is the third part of the director's cut.
Not really milking... they announced up front that they would have both editions, so people would know whether they wanted the original or wanted to wait for the extended.
Cray never really put much in the way of blinkenlights on their systems.
Of course, most models look like obscure modernist furniture or art exhibits, some of the older ones had windows that allowed you to see the liquid coolant, etc. But they definitely did not have a lot of flashy light thingies. Then again, do you need them? It's a Cray! You're supposed to be stunned and look at it in silent reverence. It's like telling a Mafia boss that he has a nice suit but he needs more jewelry.
Thinking Machines, well, that was different. Too bad it didn't do more, but it was covered in LEDs.
I know that a couple CSI episodes and a couple NCIS episodes used a generic looking search engine page. I don't know whether or not they'd use Google unless someone paid them to but the concept's there.
Of course, the TV search engines can tell you a person's entire life history with only a first name and a hair color. They're pretty powerful, you know...
Ethical hacks are not necessarily carried out by "hackers" as most people describe them. There are a lot of people in the security field that have never committed crimes using their knowledge. They can do excellent penetration testing work without the worry of whether or not they'll go rogue again.
What the CTO probably rubber stamped was that an individual that had been vetted by his HR group and hired as an employee, or an audit firm that had been retained by the company after appropriate legal agreements, can perform penetration tests in a manner that takes business requirements into consideration. For example, operations probably knows it's going on, the people doing the hack care about whether they might crash something and try to head that off, and they have strict parameters about how they handle the findings (i.e. no bugtraq posts).
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Once about 6 years ago we had a similar situation involving an Ethernet splitter. Any ports that had a splitter on them had to have their settings changed because of a potential problem.
This port wasn't set up right, someone borrowed a splitter, then their contract was up so they tried to be "helpful" when packing up and plugged both ends of the cable into the splitter, then plugged it into the wall to "keep track of it." Apparently something in the switch didn't like what it saw, there was a huge problem with the spanning tree, and blamo - all the switches on the backbone had to be reset manually.
I could see how plugging one cable into two ports could cause similar (or even worse) confusion if such a bug existed.
This was an older Cisco switch, probably 55xx series, running CatOS. The problem that caused it is fixed by now, I'm sure, but the parent poster didn't say how long ago their failure was.
why did you buy a MP3 player in the first place?
Get a clock radio with two alarm timers (very common, at least in USA). Set one for "music" and set the second for "alarm" 10 minutes later. I do that on my alarm clock.
now you can use it at the internet cafe, or at home and at work or school, or the business center at the hotel or whatever, and you don't have to wait for the world to catch up and add support in their drivers, or worry about whether the hotel is running Windows 98 still or whether your office will allow the drivers or whatnot.
It's a lot more enabling to give someone a small device that solves their problem discreetly rather than no option except to wait for the world to a) realize a problem and b) work to fix it on a wide scale.
It's out on DVD, seems like it was about 15 bucks or so. I know Netflix has it. :)
Last Monday, February 21 (Presidents Day). My dad used to actually get both Washington and Lincoln's birthdays off but eventually that was changed to President's Day too.
Before that was Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrated through much of the USA.
Of course, there's always Christmas (for some), and I'm sure other countries have kings or queens or saints or other people they like to have a good cheer about.
all in all I'd say a lot of people celebrate the birthdays of dead people worldwide. Unless they work in retail in the US, because then they probably have to go sell stuff to everyone else who isn't working.
You don't see the benefit but the manager at your local convenience store or fast food restaurant might see the benefit.
(I don't eat fast food either, and I usually don't go to convenience stores, but there's always a crowd at McDonalds or Taco Bell...)
Well, sure, receipts are still optional. The machine can print them or not, the customer can request it or not, it's all up to the merchant (for the most part) and the customer (to a more limited extent).
:)
But look at a fast food place. Some of them give you a receipt and some don't. You can get a receipt at the ones that don't, but for the most part (in my area anyway) you don't get one by default. You have to ask and they go grab it.
It's still the same cash register as before.
Lose the receipt, put the RFID tag on a keychain or something, and no signature needed (low cost limit).
Fast food will love it.
Doesn't sound like it would matter, but it does. In a lot of cases it speeds lines up which equals lots of savings. A few seconds here and there adds up when you've got a lot of people.
They would have to maintain two SKU of every item (Firewire and USB) and at that point it would probably cost just as much to put both cables in each box.
Also, retailers probably wouldn't stock the Firewire version since there's less of a market need for it.
I'm sure if Apple thought it would sell, they would do it. As it is, Apple cables are $20 and aftermarket cables will probably be even cheaper.
they are sending the same files to the iPod regardless of the transmission method.
It's either 400MB firewire or 480MB USB2. The sound quality will be exactly the same either way. iPod is basically a big ol' hard drive to the host computer and no audio translation takes place over the wire, just file transfers...
Alpine has head units that are fairly inexpensive. I think their CD changer to iPod thing is just using their AINet protocol so any of their newer heads that support cd changers should work. That includes some that are probably in the $100-$200 range or so.
I was just looking at one recently and I think I came up with about $350 or so for what I wanted. Of course I already have an iPod with the appropriate connector.
The credit card industry is pretty used to fixing problems like this anyway... it comes up a lot when new card number formats come up, etc. As much as you think you can think ahead, something eventually bites you in the rear.
The core systems of the various processing companies were generally in order well before the cards were issued, it was just a matter of finding which of the millions of terminals etc were messed up.
A lot of merchant terminals and point of sale software had date problems that would cause the 2000 or later cards to be rejected. Not really the merchant's fault - Joe's Fishing Shack didn't write the software on his credit card machine. But it did affect some of those transactions.
Luckily there aren't a lot of manufacturers of those. If there was a problem, say, with a verifone terminal (just picking on the most common maker), they could easily get updated firmware out through their support channels with low impact to the end user and fix a major chunk of any problems that happened to be there all at once.
Websites that had credit card processing code etc. might have been another story. You can't fix every 1a-buymystuffnow.com's order page to take 4 digits instead of 2, etc, you can just call them and tell them that their stuff's broken.
This is really why they are pushing federated identity so hard in various circles.
The solutions to multiple tokens are either to use a federated identity scheme where authentication may come from a business partner but authorization comes from your own systems (MS Passport, Liberty Alliance, etc) or to put certificates on smart cards that you already might have (e.g. a EMV chip card that also stores "money") so that having many tokens is not really a problem. It's possible that you could do both - have federated identity with smart card tokens. This will probably happen someday.
The former is probably a huge challenge in the area of contracts, working agreements, protocols, etc etc etc. but it's being pursued because it's a good idea and would ultimately be worth the challenge. The latter is pretty easy except in USA where smart cards are not so prevalent. I guess contactless chip (RFID) could work for this purpose though...
For the tin foil hat crowd, please note that "federated" does not mean "federal." Although it's perfectly conceivable that the government could provide this authentication service to its citizens/wards (and some countries probably already do), it probably wouldn't happen in the USA for various reasons IMO.
but I can't.
:)
needless to say, if you're in the same situation I am in and your company has a contracts negotiation team like mine does, you will have no problem with solid cabinet doors. The only issue will be whether it's worth the money to spec them or just to buy vented doors.
be a business analyst, not a tech geek. it pays better.
You mentioned seeing another angle with vents, but racks in really good data centers really don't need front/back vents for airflow. They tend to work on a sort of forced air system, cooled air is blown under the floor which is then forced up holes and/or removed floor tiles under each rack. Then, depending on need, the rack will usually have high volume fans built into the top which blow hot air up, out, and away from the rack.
The data center I currently deal with uses only the air through the floor, but it's only a couple years old and the HVAC systems were sized properly. The top fans would be a waste so they're left unplugged.
The original theatrical version was released (3 parts) and this is the third part of the director's cut.
Not really milking... they announced up front that they would have both editions, so people would know whether they wanted the original or wanted to wait for the extended.
Cray never really put much in the way of blinkenlights on their systems.
Of course, most models look like obscure modernist furniture or art exhibits, some of the older ones had windows that allowed you to see the liquid coolant, etc. But they definitely did not have a lot of flashy light thingies. Then again, do you need them? It's a Cray! You're supposed to be stunned and look at it in silent reverence. It's like telling a Mafia boss that he has a nice suit but he needs more jewelry.
Thinking Machines, well, that was different. Too bad it didn't do more, but it was covered in LEDs.
Maybe she lied about other things too. Did she have a prominent adam's apple and large hands?
"IT" was what the all the PR hype in the magazines was calling it before it was revealed.
I know that a couple CSI episodes and a couple NCIS episodes used a generic looking search engine page. I don't know whether or not they'd use Google unless someone paid them to but the concept's there.
Of course, the TV search engines can tell you a person's entire life history with only a first name and a hair color. They're pretty powerful, you know...
http://www.yes.net has information from a lot of major markets. If you know the general time and station you can often find the song/artist there.
Might not apply to college radio though, unless it was a big college station.
Ethical hacks are not necessarily carried out by "hackers" as most people describe them. There are a lot of people in the security field that have never committed crimes using their knowledge. They can do excellent penetration testing work without the worry of whether or not they'll go rogue again.
What the CTO probably rubber stamped was that an individual that had been vetted by his HR group and hired as an employee, or an audit firm that had been retained by the company after appropriate legal agreements, can perform penetration tests in a manner that takes business requirements into consideration. For example, operations probably knows it's going on, the people doing the hack care about whether they might crash something and try to head that off, and they have strict parameters about how they handle the findings (i.e. no bugtraq posts).