It's really that ouch. In some places. San Jose is very bad. The DC area (especially Northern Virginia, where I live) is insane. I make $60k/year and can't afford a house within a 45 minute commute of where I work. A one bedroom apartment, in a 40 year old building, is $900/Month.
We used it. RS-485 can go several hundred feet and is highly noise resistant. And much lower cost than interbus-s, fibre, etc. If you need noise resistance, speed isn't a factor (IIRC, after 24kbps it began to Have Issues), and you want to keep the cost down, then RS-485 is a good solution.
Over 7 years. They are more than a web site, they are an online magazine. With a staff, and reporters, that need to be paid. Also, they have hardware costs to consider. They probably upgrade the servers, routers, etc every two to three years. Federal, State, and local taxes. Rent for the offices.
Business insurance is more costly, but has better service. If the word gets out that a certain company isn't able/willing to pay claims on policies with high quarterly premiums expeditiously, then all the companies that used to buy from that agency will go elsewhere. Fast.
The Gartner Group put some stuff up after 9/11. Most of it is common sense.
Do full backups weekly, store copies offsite. Incremental backups daily, copies offsite also. If you can afford it (or can't afford any downtime), have emergency backup hardware (enough for minimal operations) in an offsite storage facility. Old hardware that would otherwise be thrown out is good for this (remember, it's for an emergency). Have a supplier who can get replacement hardware to you in a hurry (so you can get off of those old 90 MHz Pentium servers).
The most vital part of the plan, after backups, is good insurance. If the building burns to the ground Monday morning, you want to be able to call the insurer Monday Noon, and have the check in hand Tuesday morning at the latest.
These recommendations do not cover disasters such as 767s flying into the building and killing all the sysops. Earthquakes dropping the building on the same. Etc. The people are the most important part of any company and, if too many of them are lost at once, the company probably is lost too.
Unless you have really good (and expensive)insurance which can provide enough funds for you to hire new people, get them trained, and keep the company solvent while you do so.
It might have been a chemistry lab with willy pete (white phosphorus), sodium (Na), or something like that. Or a gas main could've blown.
In Maryland a couple days ago several businesses in the same building burned to the ground after a medical supply company caught fire. The company supplied oxygen tanks.
The last time I worked in a NOC, it ran Vaxes, but we had a halon dump. A Big Red Button that got smacked by the last person out of the room. The halon would smother any fire by replacing all the oxygen in the room (which was why the last guy out hit the button). Why wasn't there a halon dump in this NOC? Or, if there was one, what happened?
I hope Debian practices good management principles by having offsite backup.
It was the last of the bucket droppers. An interesting book, if you can find it, is Deep Black. It's a history of overhead imaging from the Civil War through the KH-11 program, including the U-2 and SR-71 aircraft.
My father worked for the Defense Mapping Agency (the predecessor of NIMA) until 89 and he was surprised at some of the things that showed up in that book. Especially that the resolution of the KH-11 (best is 2.5 inches, so it can't read license plates) and KH-9 (9 inches) were in there.
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and "taler" comes from the town of Joachimsthal, where the silver was mined.
RS-485 protocol is the same as RS-232. The electronics are different, but that should be handled by the hardware.
It's really that ouch. In some places. San Jose is very bad. The DC area (especially Northern Virginia, where I live) is insane. I make $60k/year and can't afford a house within a 45 minute commute of where I work. A one bedroom apartment, in a 40 year old building, is $900/Month.
Well, it does make more sense that way.
We used it. RS-485 can go several hundred feet and is highly noise resistant. And much lower cost than interbus-s, fibre, etc. If you need noise resistance, speed isn't a factor (IIRC, after 24kbps it began to Have Issues), and you want to keep the cost down, then RS-485 is a good solution.
Actually, for what we used it for, we were happy.
You haven't looked at rental costs in San Francisco, have you?
Yeah. That's what people have been saying since 1995. 7 years ago. But Salon keeps hanging on.
Over 7 years. They are more than a web site, they are an online magazine. With a staff, and reporters, that need to be paid. Also, they have hardware costs to consider. They probably upgrade the servers, routers, etc every two to three years. Federal, State, and local taxes. Rent for the offices.
Business insurance is more costly, but has better service. If the word gets out that a certain company isn't able/willing to pay claims on policies with high quarterly premiums expeditiously, then all the companies that used to buy from that agency will go elsewhere. Fast.
Some damn fool wrote an assembly program that used the dreaded HCF instruction, didn't they?
Can't autorotate (like a helicopter) either. Ouch.
Do full backups weekly, store copies offsite. Incremental backups daily, copies offsite also. If you can afford it (or can't afford any downtime), have emergency backup hardware (enough for minimal operations) in an offsite storage facility. Old hardware that would otherwise be thrown out is good for this (remember, it's for an emergency). Have a supplier who can get replacement hardware to you in a hurry (so you can get off of those old 90 MHz Pentium servers).
The most vital part of the plan, after backups, is good insurance. If the building burns to the ground Monday morning, you want to be able to call the insurer Monday Noon, and have the check in hand Tuesday morning at the latest.
These recommendations do not cover disasters such as 767s flying into the building and killing all the sysops. Earthquakes dropping the building on the same. Etc. The people are the most important part of any company and, if too many of them are lost at once, the company probably is lost too.
Unless you have really good (and expensive)insurance which can provide enough funds for you to hire new people, get them trained, and keep the company solvent while you do so.
In Maryland a couple days ago several businesses in the same building burned to the ground after a medical supply company caught fire. The company supplied oxygen tanks.
It started elsewhere. What about other fire supression systems? Sprinklers and the like?
I hope Debian practices good management principles by having offsite backup.
A swiss army type knife. From zdnet. The only comdex swag that I still use, because Moore's Law doesn't apply to useful things like that.
Personally, I regard paranoia as a necessity.
No. He has a pet tribble.
Yes. See the April 98 (!) Byte Magazine. "Why PCs Fail, and Mainframes Don't"
That's 1 meter. IIRC, the French satellite has 1 meter resolution in the visible light bands. I think the latest Landsats are that good.
My father worked for the Defense Mapping Agency (the predecessor of NIMA) until 89 and he was surprised at some of the things that showed up in that book. Especially that the resolution of the KH-11 (best is 2.5 inches, so it can't read license plates) and KH-9 (9 inches) were in there.
Hell, a site like that could easily be about porn the first day!
Once again, a perfect place for a certain link and you neglected to put it in! And it's even on topic!
Do they really have any power to tell ICANN to revoke a domain name?
It's a "dot US" domain name. ICANN has no authority over how the names are handed out.