whoever said 'All data is lost' to the press should have been dragged out back and shot.
Why would they shoot them after spending all this money on training? You don't think this has provided more experience than anything else ever could as far as when to open your mouth and when to keep it shut?
A scientist and an engineer are lead into a room. They are asked to stand on one side. On the opposite side is Treasure (or delicious cake if you please).
They are told that they may have the prize if they can reach it, however they may never go more than half the distance between them and it.
The scientist balks claiming it is obviously impossible as he can NEVER reach the prize and leaves the room. The engineer shrugs, and walks halfway to the prize 10 times or so, says "close enough" and takes it.
Well, if OP is like me, there are 7 computers in that room. That requires an air conditioner, and running extra power is expensive. So, the 20 amps is pushing it for one more appliance, and there are 2 to choose from: microwave and refridgerator.
Personally, I determined I'd rather get up and walk for my microwaved food than for my beer, so the refridgerator won. Besides: Beer has food value, but food has no beer value..
RAID0: you can lose 0 RAID1: you can lose 1 RAID5: if you don't remember this one, you're hopelessly lost anyway, so sure... you can lose 5. RAID6: RAID5 with an extra pairity drive. RAID0+1: you've added RAID1 to RAID0. RAID10: you've added RAID0 to RAID1.
Because turning sensitive electronic equipment on and off causes the components and traces to shrink and expand (due to heat), which causes them to fail faster.
My favorite story was about a VMS system a local college had purchased. They got 2 at the same time, serial numbers off by one. One was put in production, the other in development. The production system was left on all the time, but the development system was frequently turned off. Over time, the production system had few hardware problems, but the development system had regular hardware failures. The development system cost far more than the production system.
Think of it this way: When do light bulbs burn out? When they are left on? No. They usually burn out when you first turn them on.
the quickest way to eliminate a policy or new set of particularly stupid regulations is to follow them to the letter.
Oh, I have a good story on this one.
Engineer at IBM was told to start wearing a tie. Again and again. Finally passed as policy. So he got a tie. Not outrageous or anthing, just a plain dark tie. Waited by the elevator for the policy maker to show up & got in the elevator with him.
Then, in the elevator, he blew his nose on it, and left it like that all day.
The policy was dropped, and he was told he didn't have to wear a tie anymore.
Seriously- some of the most memorable things I have ever received were *not* geeky. Geeky things fade pretty quickly; they become outdated.
Now, I don't know where your BF stands financially, but chances are anything that runs ~100$ he could get for himself, or it's something that would be completely meaningless after about a year. Maybe that's not a bad thing. Dunno.
*My* favorite gift from a GF from all time, was a CD she created for me. Did the cover artwork, typed up the lyrics, and everything- all songs that were something to us.. things like Adam Ant's "Wonderful" (which is pretty generic for any happy relationship) and several songs that were more personal. That gift kicked ass because it was personal, had a human touch, it was very clear that time and effort had been made thinking about me/us.
But then she knew her tunes, and she clearly put some effort into it. If you don't, you would probably make a sucky gift.
Other good ideas would be a really nice night out. Spend some money to go get you both a massage (something to relax you both), then dinner at a nice italian (or whatever floats your boat) restaurant- someplace nicer than you could/would normally go. Maybe a private hot tub afterwords? Just something that is about the two of you- not something that will break in 2 months, or become outdated in a year.
Something personal is always going to mean more. Memories of a special occasion can last a lifetime. A geek toy won't even come close.
That's a lot of data to be storing. Disc isn't free, and you need to keep a good chunk of it available for data loads, future growth, and of course the 25% free space to prevent fragmentation.
As you have pointed out, there is value in that data, but it's short lived. In general, you probably never need anything over a few weeks old- network problems show up in a hurry. I'd be surprised if you needed more than a day or two in most cases.
Set up daily log rotation now, and pick some arbitrarilly useful cut off for keeping old logs. My suggestion would be to store the logs with the date embedded when you rotate (this is incremental backup friendly), and only keep a week or so live on disk. Then things are still available from the backup pool (and easy to find) if you need something older.
I worked at a fairly large ISP for serveral years. when we did get subpoenad for logs they ask for things from at least a couple of months prior. Usually they were asking for info 4-6 months old. We always complied when we had the logs, but to be perfectly honest, it was fairly rare when we still had them. We weren't trying to avoid turning over logs, we just never had the storage to really keep a lot around. Most of the time when we did, it was because we noticed cracking activity and saved those logs someplace special. The other case was when our mail guru caught a known spammer on our network and asked for the logs to be saved- hell hath no fury like a mail admin who catches the very bane of his existance.
If you have the logs, you need to turn them over. Get over it, it might be a very bad person that they help convict. Especially if the powers that be are on it like flies on shit. Typical subversive human behavior isn't likely to cause a very fast subpoena. It will probably end up being more in the 3~6 month range. And if it disturbs you greatly that someone could be in the hotseat because you have the logs, you might want to consider another position.. you're quite likely to see a lot of things that end up disturbing you as time goes on.
Granted- I am no longer doing ISP work, and I don't have recent information on what the turnaround rate is, but I suspect when it goes through civil court, the timeframe will easily exceeding your normal backup strategy/useful data. Heck, the article is talking about data from September.
Here, here. I have a box I undersized the C: partition on a windows 2000 machine and havn't been able to install any service packs beyond SP1. It's been over 2 years since I've updated, but everything works.
I have another box running RedHat 6.1, which I havn't updated in over 2 years. I'm sure I have older installations I havn't fiddled with, but those are the 2 machines that spring to mind.
Of course, running things behind a NAT'd firewall helps, but common sense about clicking on attachments, running thigns as a privledged user and whatnot help a lot more.
When I was 19 I spilled some everclear on the countertop at the apartment. I cleaned it up within 5 minutes- but it had already eaten through about a millimeter of the surface.
Scary stuff to be drinking strait (I have, but rarely after that).
While playing a recorded show, press Select, Play, Select, 3, 0, Select. You should hear some kind of beeping confirmation tones at the end. The ->| button will then function as a 30-sec skip instead of it's normal function.
Another feature I didn't know about is you can sort the now playing list:
Sorting the Now Playing List (3.0) In Now Playing, Enter: (S)low (0)Zero (R)ecord (T)humbsUp
Press enter to switch sorting options.
short cut keys are 1 for normal 2 for experation date 3 for alphabetical
I want to replace my dead rat (7.2) with a Debian branded penguin. I would love to do that upgrade online. Any tips or tools?
Well, my long held belief is that before upgrading you should back up/var,/etc,/home,/usr/src, and/usr/local. Just tar them up and dump them on a CD- put the date on it. I've been upgrading linux systems since '94, and this method has worked for me.
(/usr/src may be a bit much, but if you have installed much custom software there might be something there you can't find- my fav is specialized network drivers. This is definately something to at least glance at and pick & choose).
With those directories backed up, you can pretty much restore any linux system./etc for all kinds of system information,/home for your custom settings & saved mail,/usr/local for your custom tools/apps, and/var for all kinds of surprises you won't think about until after the upgrade.
The only real "gotcha" is if you end up installing a system with a different version of libc, but if you are going debian there should be a package out there which will provide it. You'll just have to grep/var/lib/dpkg/available to see what it's called.
Oh, you may also want to back up that pr0n partition as well, but it's usually too big for CD and it's easier to just not re-format it during the installation.
He said his team leader was "very techy". Techies don't care much for meetings in general, and it's all very speculative at this point. Why would he want to throw money at the lawyers to talk it over at this point? To give the other manager face time, to lend validity to the claims, or to lower his perceived value to the company by showing a lack of understanding/planning/sureness about his department?
Going to legal is going to be costly, put projects on hold, and ultimately result in having to wait and see. No point. Taking a strong stand from the offset is exactly what a good leader should be doing.
Perhaps a better response would have been "go read groklaw, we have better things to do then chase rabbit trails", but tieing things up in legal is a waste of time and money at this point.
I always hated the error windows telling the user he or she cannot do something and then requiring "ok" to be clicked.
My favorite is pasting text in excel- "warning, the size on the clipboard doesn't match the size of the selected area. Do you still want to paste?" (click No). Then another friggin popup you have to respond to saying it can't paste the data. Duh.. I just said I didn't want to. It's not like I was totally confused and needed that extra tip.
Yes, APUE is excellent- but after reading that, take a look at Beginning Linux Programming from Wrox Press. This book give the best bite sized simple, coherent examples I have seen anywhere.
The only down side to the book is it tends to skirt around error checking- which is required to provide simple summaries.
If you've read APUE, check out Beginning Linux Programming- and don't let the word Beginning throw you-it covers advanced topics quite well.
BTW- my opinions are based on the 1st edition, for the at the time when it originally came out.
So, what are they going to do when they determine (at least) one of the graves is improperly marked? Are they going to track down who it is and correct the gravestone?
Granted, that's quite a challenge, and in all honesty probably isn't feasible, but still.
Here's a body which has spent the last 100 years buried in someone else's grave. Shouldn't that issue be corrected? Shouldn't someone at least care?
You can talk about desecrating graves all you like, but one of those graves was desecrated a long time ago, and left that way. Heck, left that way and exploited.
The New Scientist magazine says the prototype gadget consists of a wristband that converts digital signals into vibrations that are then transmitted into the bones of the hand.
I thought it had been proven that one of the leading causes of carpal tunnel was excessive vibrations of the wrist. Now if this thing attaches as a wrist watch, and operates by vibrating your bones enough that you can hear the resonance through your finger, it seems it would be one of the last things any rational thinking person would want.
Personally, I try to avoid carpal tunnel, and this sounds like it was designed to cause it.
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The following applies to pretty much anything you might ever want to do:
You can do whatever you want.
Once.
whoever said 'All data is lost' to the press should have been dragged out back and shot.
Why would they shoot them after spending all this money on training? You don't think this has provided more experience than anything else ever could as far as when to open your mouth and when to keep it shut?
Seriously, it will probably result in a raise.
Note to parent: don't show this article to management.
A scientist and an engineer are lead into a room. They are asked to stand on one side. On the opposite side is Treasure (or delicious cake if you please).
They are told that they may have the prize if they can reach it, however they may never go more than half the distance between them and it.
The scientist balks claiming it is obviously impossible as he can NEVER reach the prize and leaves the room. The engineer shrugs, and walks halfway to the prize 10 times or so, says "close enough" and takes it.
So I guess we'll just see, eh?
And so, after removing the ads from her blog (they weren't really earning much money anyway) slashdot decided to mention it on the front page..
I bet she's thrilled.
Well, if OP is like me, there are 7 computers in that room. That requires an air conditioner, and running extra power is expensive. So, the 20 amps is pushing it for one more appliance, and there are 2 to choose from: microwave and refridgerator.
Personally, I determined I'd rather get up and walk for my microwaved food than for my beer, so the refridgerator won. Besides: Beer has food value, but food has no beer value..
The easy way to remember this is:
How many drives can you afford to lose?
RAID0: you can lose 0
RAID1: you can lose 1
RAID5: if you don't remember this one, you're hopelessly lost anyway, so sure... you can lose 5.
RAID6: RAID5 with an extra pairity drive.
RAID0+1: you've added RAID1 to RAID0.
RAID10: you've added RAID0 to RAID1.
Gah! That's supposed to be a One-Dee-Ten-Tee problem.
1D10T.
It sort of amuses me that I'm typing this on an iBook..
Because turning sensitive electronic equipment on and off causes the components and traces to shrink and expand (due to heat), which causes them to fail faster.
My favorite story was about a VMS system a local college had purchased. They got 2 at the same time, serial numbers off by one. One was put in production, the other in development. The production system was left on all the time, but the development system was frequently turned off. Over time, the production system had few hardware problems, but the development system had regular hardware failures. The development system cost far more than the production system.
Think of it this way: When do light bulbs burn out? When they are left on? No. They usually burn out when you first turn them on.
Dead cats can be quite useful.
Oh, I have a good story on this one.
Engineer at IBM was told to start wearing a tie. Again and again. Finally passed as policy. So he got a tie. Not outrageous or anthing, just a plain dark tie. Waited by the elevator for the policy maker to show up & got in the elevator with him.
Then, in the elevator, he blew his nose on it, and left it like that all day.
The policy was dropped, and he was told he didn't have to wear a tie anymore.
that read that as "Do-It-Yourself Electronic Enema Machine", and had to re-read it like 4 times (in horror)?
Clearly, I need more sleep.
memtest86 is free (GPL, no restrictions for use). So that handles memory. Works great, but can be time consuming.
Okay, so that's just one thing, but I'm sure you'll get buried with suggestions for other piecemeal items.
Seriously- some of the most memorable things I have ever received were *not* geeky. Geeky things fade pretty quickly; they become outdated.
Now, I don't know where your BF stands financially, but chances are anything that runs ~100$ he could get for himself, or it's something that would be completely meaningless after about a year. Maybe that's not a bad thing. Dunno.
*My* favorite gift from a GF from all time, was a CD she created for me. Did the cover artwork, typed up the lyrics, and everything- all songs that were something to us.. things like Adam Ant's "Wonderful" (which is pretty generic for any happy relationship) and several songs that were more personal. That gift kicked ass because it was personal, had a human touch, it was very clear that time and effort had been made thinking about me/us.
But then she knew her tunes, and she clearly put some effort into it. If you don't, you would probably make a sucky gift.
Other good ideas would be a really nice night out. Spend some money to go get you both a massage (something to relax you both), then dinner at a nice italian (or whatever floats your boat) restaurant- someplace nicer than you could/would normally go. Maybe a private hot tub afterwords? Just something that is about the two of you- not something that will break in 2 months, or become outdated in a year.
Something personal is always going to mean more. Memories of a special occasion can last a lifetime. A geek toy won't even come close.
That's a lot of data to be storing. Disc isn't free, and you need to keep a good chunk of it available for data loads, future growth, and of course the 25% free space to prevent fragmentation.
As you have pointed out, there is value in that data, but it's short lived. In general, you probably never need anything over a few weeks old- network problems show up in a hurry. I'd be surprised if you needed more than a day or two in most cases.
Set up daily log rotation now, and pick some arbitrarilly useful cut off for keeping old logs. My suggestion would be to store the logs with the date embedded when you rotate (this is incremental backup friendly), and only keep a week or so live on disk. Then things are still available from the backup pool (and easy to find) if you need something older.
I worked at a fairly large ISP for serveral years. when we did get subpoenad for logs they ask for things from at least a couple of months prior. Usually they were asking for info 4-6 months old. We always complied when we had the logs, but to be perfectly honest, it was fairly rare when we still had them. We weren't trying to avoid turning over logs, we just never had the storage to really keep a lot around. Most of the time when we did, it was because we noticed cracking activity and saved those logs someplace special. The other case was when our mail guru caught a known spammer on our network and asked for the logs to be saved- hell hath no fury like a mail admin who catches the very bane of his existance.
If you have the logs, you need to turn them over. Get over it, it might be a very bad person that they help convict. Especially if the powers that be are on it like flies on shit. Typical subversive human behavior isn't likely to cause a very fast subpoena. It will probably end up being more in the 3~6 month range. And if it disturbs you greatly that someone could be in the hotseat because you have the logs, you might want to consider another position.. you're quite likely to see a lot of things that end up disturbing you as time goes on.
Granted- I am no longer doing ISP work, and I don't have recent information on what the turnaround rate is, but I suspect when it goes through civil court, the timeframe will easily exceeding your normal backup strategy/useful data. Heck, the article is talking about data from September.
Here, here. I have a box I undersized the C: partition on a windows 2000 machine and havn't been able to install any service packs beyond SP1. It's been over 2 years since I've updated, but everything works.
I have another box running RedHat 6.1, which I havn't updated in over 2 years. I'm sure I have older installations I havn't fiddled with, but those are the 2 machines that spring to mind.
Of course, running things behind a NAT'd firewall helps, but common sense about clicking on attachments, running thigns as a privledged user and whatnot help a lot more.
When I was 19 I spilled some everclear on the countertop at the apartment. I cleaned it up within 5 minutes- but it had already eaten through about a millimeter of the surface.
Scary stuff to be drinking strait (I have, but rarely after that).
TiVo doesn't have commercial skip
Sure it does (from the TiVo Community forums):
While playing a recorded show, press Select, Play, Select, 3, 0, Select. You should hear some kind of beeping confirmation tones at the end. The ->| button will then function as a 30-sec skip instead of it's normal function.
Another feature I didn't know about is you can sort the now playing list:
Sorting the Now Playing List (3.0)
In Now Playing, Enter:
(S)low (0)Zero (R)ecord (T)humbsUp
Press enter to switch sorting options.
short cut keys are
1 for normal
2 for experation date
3 for alphabetical
Well, my long held belief is that before upgrading you should back up
Just tar them up and dump them on a CD- put the date on it. I've been upgrading linux systems since '94, and this method has worked for me.
(/usr/src may be a bit much, but if you have installed much custom software there might be something there you can't find- my fav is specialized network drivers. This is definately something to at least glance at and pick & choose).
With those directories backed up, you can pretty much restore any linux system.
The only real "gotcha" is if you end up installing a system with a different version of libc, but if you are going debian there should be a package out there which will provide it. You'll just have to grep
Oh, you may also want to back up that pr0n partition as well, but it's usually too big for CD and it's easier to just not re-format it during the installation.
He said his team leader was "very techy". Techies don't care much for meetings in general, and it's all very speculative at this point. Why would he want to throw money at the lawyers to talk it over at this point? To give the other manager face time, to lend validity to the claims, or to lower his perceived value to the company by showing a lack of understanding/planning/sureness about his department?
Going to legal is going to be costly, put projects on hold, and ultimately result in having to wait and see. No point. Taking a strong stand from the offset is exactly what a good leader should be doing.
Perhaps a better response would have been "go read groklaw, we have better things to do then chase rabbit trails", but tieing things up in legal is a waste of time and money at this point.
My favorite is pasting text in excel- "warning, the size on the clipboard doesn't match the size of the selected area. Do you still want to paste?" (click No). Then another friggin popup you have to respond to saying it can't paste the data. Duh.. I just said I didn't want to. It's not like I was totally confused and needed that extra tip.
Yes, APUE is excellent- but after reading that, take a look at Beginning Linux Programming from Wrox Press. This book give the best bite sized simple, coherent examples I have seen anywhere.
The only down side to the book is it tends to skirt around error checking- which is required to provide simple summaries.
If you've read APUE, check out Beginning Linux Programming- and don't let the word Beginning throw you-it covers advanced topics quite well.
BTW- my opinions are based on the 1st edition, for the at the time when it originally came out.
Here here.. but, not all browsers support CSS. Case in point- the pocketpc 2002. Granted, I usually don't browse slashdot with it
And it really sucked because I got the damn thing *right* after converting my site to use CSS heavily.
And no, I'm not a *doze person usually, but I couldn't pass up on a wireless handheld with built in WiFi for under $300..
So, what are they going to do when they determine (at least) one of the graves is improperly marked? Are they going to track down who it is and correct the gravestone?
Granted, that's quite a challenge, and in all honesty probably isn't feasible, but still.
Here's a body which has spent the last 100 years buried in someone else's grave. Shouldn't that issue be corrected?
Shouldn't someone at least care?
You can talk about desecrating graves all you like, but one of those graves was desecrated a long time ago, and left that way. Heck, left that way and exploited.
I thought it had been proven that one of the leading causes of carpal tunnel was excessive vibrations of the wrist. Now if this thing attaches as a wrist watch, and operates by vibrating your bones enough that you can hear the resonance through your finger, it seems it would be one of the last things any rational thinking person would want.
Personally, I try to avoid carpal tunnel, and this sounds like it was designed to cause it.
I'll pass.