UPS batteries only last a few years. What happens when yours fails a few months or (if you get a defective one) a few years before its expected lifetime is up? Never, ever count on any of your computer equipment, and always have as much protection as you can afford. This is one means toward that end.
With the current RAM prices, a product like this could become very feasible. Right now, you can get 1GB of PC133 SDRAM for under $350 (based on Pricewatch's best prices.) A single $70 256MB DIMM would be plenty for a device like this, and adding a few more DIMM slots for do-it-yourself upgrades would certainly strengthen its market appeal.
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..isn't hot-plugging PS/2 keyboards considered dangerous? I've seen a few fried keyboard controllers in my day. Wouldn't something like this just exasperate the problem?
The 128 bytes the author mentioned mp3asm is skipping is the ID3 tag. Not anything to worry about; mp3asm should be fixed to handle this, I would hope.
All these portable makers assume people still encode at 128K, which produces some of the worst-quality MP3s I've heard. I've seen players that don't even *handle* stuff over 192K. My default bitrate now is 192, and I've gone as high as 320 when the music demands it. Diamond used to claim their 32MB Rios could handle an hour of music, too -- how the hell can you squeeze an hour into 32 megs, even at 128K?
There's a guy in France (no kidding) whose job it is to make up French words for American/English things. He literally gets paid to pull French-sounding words out of his ass because the French are too arrogant to call a Big Mac a Big Mac.
You could create DOS boot disks with network drivers and TCP/IP then launch Ghost and do multicasting from a Ghost server which stores the images.
We use DOS network boot disks with scripts which automatically set the IP and then do a simple "net use X: \\server-name\sharename". The X: drive shows up in a list of drives in Ghost; all the stuff gets imaged right to the network drive. Don't even need a Ghost server.
I think if a thief stole you car, and his excuse was there was no reason for you to leave your car in it's default, stealable state, you wouldn't accept that excuse.
Fair enough, but if your car kept getting stolen, since you didn't lock it, left the engine running outside all the time, and perhaps put a big sign on it that said "steal me!", I wouldn't feel any sympathy for you. Furthermore, if you let it happen more than once (hell, theft of service happens hundreds of thousands of times with open relays) I'd simply point and laugh, for quite some time.
And yes, "it's not that hard, dumbass." There are several websites out there that teach people, in clear, concise steps, how to close an open mail relay, for both UNIX and NT; hell, for just about any operating system. People go to jail for leaving guns lying around when a kid picks one up and shoot someone. Why shouldn't people at least be scolded for running open mail relays when criminals use them to harass?
"He executed the scheme using the computer resources of the Market Vision graphics studio company, authorities said, and an overload of data crashed the company's internal network. Ed Greenberg, owner of Market Vision, said his losses amounted to about $18,000.
If I had a dollar for every open relay on the Internet, I'd be a very rich person. This kind of crap -- "hijacking", they call it -- wouldn't be possible if sysadmins would LEARN how to SECURE their mailservers!!! Here's a hint: turn off relaying! It's absolutely asinine to allow the entire Internet to send mail through your machines; hopefully $18,000 in losses has taught this person that.
There's a patch which (purportedly) works against 2.2.18 here. You'll also need the latest full ReiserFS patch. Patch as usual, ignore the failures, and then patch again with this patch.
Give us some fucking credit here, for Christ's sake. No American believes Al Gore "invented the internet". Just because you hear it on TV in your country doesn't make it true.
I could swear Omnipoint has offered GSM access in the eastern half of the United States now for about 5 years. Though it wasn't the reason I used them in 1997, I thought it was kinda neat back then.
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Just something to think about for those still skeptical...
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We use DOS network boot disks with scripts which automatically set the IP and then do a simple "net use X: \\server-name\sharename". The X: drive shows up in a list of drives in Ghost; all the stuff gets imaged right to the network drive. Don't even need a Ghost server.
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Fair enough, but if your car kept getting stolen, since you didn't lock it, left the engine running outside all the time, and perhaps put a big sign on it that said "steal me!", I wouldn't feel any sympathy for you. Furthermore, if you let it happen more than once (hell, theft of service happens hundreds of thousands of times with open relays) I'd simply point and laugh, for quite some time.
And yes, "it's not that hard, dumbass." There are several websites out there that teach people, in clear, concise steps, how to close an open mail relay, for both UNIX and NT; hell, for just about any operating system. People go to jail for leaving guns lying around when a kid picks one up and shoot someone. Why shouldn't people at least be scolded for running open mail relays when criminals use them to harass?
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If I had a dollar for every open relay on the Internet, I'd be a very rich person. This kind of crap -- "hijacking", they call it -- wouldn't be possible if sysadmins would LEARN how to SECURE their mailservers!!! Here's a hint: turn off relaying! It's absolutely asinine to allow the entire Internet to send mail through your machines; hopefully $18,000 in losses has taught this person that.
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