I don't know what is with people and TV. I haven't had an antenna or cable line in 5 years. It just wasn't worth my time anymore. I really hope DTV gets atleast a few people to just turn the thing off.
And this is why you have N+M redundant systems. Use 10 chillers for your datacenter, but only need 6 of them on at any time. This way you can repair them if they break without worrying too much about what happens if one fails.
Of course this costs a bit more, and will likely get shot down by bean counts in a lot of situations.:)
Having very large PSUs is a pain in the ass. Failures tend to be catastrophic and dangerous. They're more expensive to build and maintain. (think basic economy of scale problems) They also may not be any more efficient than distributed conversion. You also tend to distribute much lower voltages with DC than you do with AC. (240vac vs 48vdc) This gives very high amperages which requires much thicker wiring. Copper is EXPENSIVE right now, this makes it a big factor in the cap-ex of building a new DC.
This is why a lot of work is going into improving the efficiency of commodity power supplies. Groups like 80plus.org are doing great things.
I completely agree. I changed my job title at work to Bit Plumber. Thankfully my users are mostly software engineers (damn good ones too) and respect the support I give them.
Yup, I can't count how many times I've been stuck behind some slow poke getting onto the freeway in their 200-300HP V6 or V8. I don't know why they need such a big engine when I am barely using the 120hp in my VW's I4.
That's why I love my job. In my group we have 1 manager for ~20 people (plus a few more in an EU timezone for off-hours oncall, but they have a local official manager). My manager handles 2 sub-groups that work on different projects. Each project has a technical (former sysadmin and former software engineer) PM that is also a 50% engineer. So really we have 2 FTE managers for 20 people. The 1:(10-15) manager to engineer ratio fairly common.
Exactly, when I used to host lan parties we had groups ranging from 20 people to 150 people. Theft was never a huge issue. Most people come with a group of 2-3 friends (larger if they're in clans) and simply "watch each others stuff". For larger parties, you might want to deal with the event staff at a hotel or something, they know a lot about taking care of that stuff.
The big deal is power, for the larger parties we had to find a hotel or other event room with 3 phase power distribution (200+ amps) to handle all the machines.
The outage was 3 hours, so that's 99.6% uptime for the month. Looks like anyone paying for service can get the first level of service credit. Personally I don't think this is a great credit.. 3 hours of downtime in one shot should IMHO give you atleast a month added to your service.
A couple of hundred? For an "under $10,000" I could build a fail-over pair of Linux servers that could host tens of thousands of accounts. I could probably host a couple hundred accounts on my Soekris router.
Yea, I also had a number of co-workers converted from exempt to non-exempt. Most of them were happy because it gave them a 10-20% salary bonus. Some of them are nervous about being promoted to exempt because it might make their salary go down.
And you don't have to post only one format. If there were a choice of FLAC, mp3, and ogg on the site for different prices based on file size there isn't a problem.
4000 tracks is not really that much space anyway.
My entire collection of 12k FLAC files is only 300G of space.
All we need is for websites to accept the public key strings, and the browsers to interact with ssh-agent. It would take someone like Google to accept this type of thing for gmail for it to get any kind of acceptance.
So the correct employment clause is.. "You must pay us back for training if you leave within X months of taking said training" This is fair and legal afaik.
Someone I know setup a script that every time he connects to an AP it generates a random MAC. It tries to continue to use the same MAC for the same AP MAC.
I bike to work just about every day. 7 miles round trip. It isn't a long distance, but I don't take it easy. Most days I sprint it fairly hard each way. It's a simple 12min workout.
I need to set aside more weekends for longer 30+ mile trips.
Well, I'm glad this person spent the time to debug it.. I wouldn't be aware of this problem otherwise. Not that I have ever considered Foxconn for any system I've built. I really won't use them now.
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I don't know what is with people and TV. I haven't had an antenna or cable line in 5 years. It just wasn't worth my time anymore. I really hope DTV gets atleast a few people to just turn the thing off.
Seriously, go out side, get a hobby or some shit.
And this is why you have N+M redundant systems. Use 10 chillers for your datacenter, but only need 6 of them on at any time. This way you can repair them if they break without worrying too much about what happens if one fails.
Of course this costs a bit more, and will likely get shot down by bean counts in a lot of situations. :)
Having very large PSUs is a pain in the ass. Failures tend to be catastrophic and dangerous. They're more expensive to build and maintain. (think basic economy of scale problems) They also may not be any more efficient than distributed conversion. You also tend to distribute much lower voltages with DC than you do with AC. (240vac vs 48vdc) This gives very high amperages which requires much thicker wiring. Copper is EXPENSIVE right now, this makes it a big factor in the cap-ex of building a new DC.
This is why a lot of work is going into improving the efficiency of commodity power supplies. Groups like 80plus.org are doing great things.
Also some other links:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/07/secret_efficien.php
http://services.google.com/blog_resources/PSU_white_paper.pdf
I completely agree. I changed my job title at work to Bit Plumber. Thankfully my users are mostly software engineers (damn good ones too) and respect the support I give them.
Yup, I can't count how many times I've been stuck behind some slow poke getting onto the freeway in their 200-300HP V6 or V8. I don't know why they need such a big engine when I am barely using the 120hp in my VW's I4.
Why not just put up the list on "terroristwatchlist.com" and do site: google searches.. Would probably be much easier and more reliable.
That's why I love my job. In my group we have 1 manager for ~20 people (plus a few more in an EU timezone for off-hours oncall, but they have a local official manager). My manager handles 2 sub-groups that work on different projects. Each project has a technical (former sysadmin and former software engineer) PM that is also a 50% engineer. So really we have 2 FTE managers for 20 people. The 1:(10-15) manager to engineer ratio fairly common.
Exactly, when I used to host lan parties we had groups ranging from 20 people to 150 people. Theft was never a huge issue. Most people come with a group of 2-3 friends (larger if they're in clans) and simply "watch each others stuff". For larger parties, you might want to deal with the event staff at a hotel or something, they know a lot about taking care of that stuff.
The big deal is power, for the larger parties we had to find a hotel or other event room with 3 phase power distribution (200+ amps) to handle all the machines.
Hah, It would be interesting to see how strong the age/uid correlation would be. I'm probably a hundred years old by slashdot standards.
No, it says nothing about IT staff, it says everything about Exchange's scalability.
The pay-for Google Apps ($50/mo) has a 99.9% monthly SLA.
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/sla.html
The outage was 3 hours, so that's 99.6% uptime for the month. Looks like anyone paying for service can get the first level of service credit. Personally I don't think this is a great credit.. 3 hours of downtime in one shot should IMHO give you atleast a month added to your service.
A couple of hundred? For an "under $10,000" I could build a fail-over pair of Linux servers that could host tens of thousands of accounts. I could probably host a couple hundred accounts on my Soekris router.
Yup, works for me, not a bug.
I really miss my AT&T Business Terminal. It even had simple macro programming to store a few key sequences. Good for AT commands and TW2002 shortcuts.
Yea, I also had a number of co-workers converted from exempt to non-exempt. Most of them were happy because it gave them a 10-20% salary bonus. Some of them are nervous about being promoted to exempt because it might make their salary go down.
And you don't have to post only one format. If there were a choice of FLAC, mp3, and ogg on the site for different prices based on file size there isn't a problem.
4000 tracks is not really that much space anyway.
My entire collection of 12k FLAC files is only 300G of space.
All we need is for websites to accept the public key strings, and the browsers to interact with ssh-agent. It would take someone like Google to accept this type of thing for gmail for it to get any kind of acceptance.
But did god say light was a particle or a wave?
/me throws an occam's razor.
LOL, great post.
So the correct employment clause is.. "You must pay us back for training if you leave within X months of taking said training" This is fair and legal afaik.
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Someone I know setup a script that every time he connects to an AP it generates a random MAC. It tries to continue to use the same MAC for the same AP MAC.
I bike to work just about every day. 7 miles round trip. It isn't a long distance, but I don't take it easy. Most days I sprint it fairly hard each way. It's a simple 12min workout.
I need to set aside more weekends for longer 30+ mile trips.
Well, I'm glad this person spent the time to debug it.. I wouldn't be aware of this problem otherwise. Not that I have ever considered Foxconn for any system I've built. I really won't use them now.
I do the same thing, I just generate additional strong passwords and keep them in a GPG encrypted file.
The problem is these questions are NOT 2 factor authentication, and like you say only make the authentication method weaker.