Seriously are you not the owner of your own equipment anymore?
I can understand them having a bios level warning that can be disabled for this kind of thing. Similar to how you can put a machine into secure boot mode or disable it if you want.
But outright blocking the machine from operating with no "I understand the risk click OK to continue" type of thing is complete anti consumer BS.
What is the point of this? Do they really think it's a long term benefit to their customers?
Correct. Lastpass is now firmly in control of the price doubling jerks at Logmein.
There has been 1 doubling of price for Lastpass since being bought. Next one is likely still 6-9 months until being announced if the pattern holds
I think Logmein main product now costs a few billion dollars per computer but I have not checked recently. I switched when my Logmein central went from $150 to over $10,000.
The product was always excellent but the guys in management. I just have to assume some kind of corporate version of insanity exists there.
I believe they survive because there are some dysfunctional accounts payable departments where once a supplier is approved the amounts are never checked. So they can raise the pricing and nobody checks because it's an "approved" vendor from years back and they just pay whatever price is on the invoice. Any sane customers have cancelled their logmein accounts long ago.
I'm not surprised that they lost data. It's not even the first time.
I signed up ages ago with a unique email address in 2007 only used to sign up for their service with all partner offers and marketing choices if there were any set to no. Format of user-randomstring@domain.com
I started getting spam to their unique tag years ago so they lost data before. I may have kept a sample of the first spam but I think it was in 2008-2009 timeframe.
So I see they spent a bunch of time and effort looking at records for PDA and security gates and cell towers etc. But it seems like the pattern wasn't too hard to predict.
Why not just catch him at the golf course the next time?
The peer to peer is the feature I have no really good drop in replacement for right now.
I liked that it did not require VPN as it would arbitrate the connection between the peers in two different sites. It worked well for small businesses (really small like less than 10 employees) where you often had the owner or someone who would setup a computer at home to use as a backup target. They usually also subscribed to the cloud service but it was nice to have that copy of data nearby where someone could run home and get the drives and drive it back far faster than doing a large restore over the internet in case of a large dataloss like drive crash.
The big thing was it generally worked on a home router without special configuration. So if the owner with the backup at home upgrades their ISP and the installer brings a new router as an "upgrade" I don't get a call or email saying the backup stopped working because the custom firewall rules are gone. Or more often they have a glitch in their Internet at home and step 2 of the phone call to the ISP to troubleshoot is to hold down the reset button for 5 seconds until it reboots with factory default settings. Seems like most alternatives want to use something like SFTP which is fine, except in a home router you likely need to setup port forwarding, DHCP reservation or static IP of the home computer/backup server, dynamic DNS client, and usually change the listening port to something the ISP isn't blocking on dynamic IP accounts.
Looks like the fact they never charged for this part of the software wasn't sustainable. Alternatives I'm considering (none seem to have the peer to peer through NAT router feature) https://duplicacy.com/ https://www.goodsync.com/business Still building a list, I'm sure I'm going to find more. Some other replies mention software I need to check out like Spideroak Many of these websites have way too much marketing BS and not enough solid technical descriptions of what the product actually does and what it looks like doing it. I'm really tired of deciphering the BS, I wish more products just gave a simple product tour as their primary marketing push. A few screenshots goes a long way with me.
Leaning to products that also support Backblaze B2 as a bring your own cloud storage option. I doubt another cloud provider is offering anything like crashplan peer to peer destination which was totally unique in a backup to cloud product offering.
Yep, lifetime VIP and lifetime free standard DNS for up to 50 domains here. Donated to dyndns in the 90s and bought lifetime with editdns before they were taken over by dyndns.
For anyone who was paying it was already looking pretty bad with constant price increases and reductions in features and service for the lower priced options. Only the fully managed anycast DNS platform appeared to be getting much attention. Host logs from dynamic clients has been broken for years for example. The number of requests allowed for standard DNS keeps getting lowered and I cannot name a single new feature they have added to standard DNS in the last 5 years. You cannot even allow zone transfers anymore since they took over from editdns so during the ddos you could not have secondary DNS with another provider unless you manually recreate the zone entries.
So yes, sounds pretty much as you would expect. The hardware in the console doesn't change but it also needs to hit a certain price point at launch. Usually the hardware of a console is sold at about a break even price point right when launched and profits come from game licensing and eventual production cost improvements. Given that the typical price of a new console these days is around $400 or $500 you would never expect the state of the art GPU to be included as those parts alone are going to exceed that price point. So yes, this years new crop of GPU designs is likely a safe bet for this mass market device launch next year. Remember for the $400 price you still have to include storage, processor, power supply, enclosure, packaging and all the other bits and pieces.
So sure, a current gaming PC costing 3x or more of a console is more powerful and will continue to outpace the console performance as time marches on. Apples and oranges. For pure gaming performance the consoles usually do pretty good on bang for the buck.
I have heard about holographic memory being the next big thing in storage since the 90's. In 2001 there were companies "demonstrating" prototypes they said would be on the mass market soon that never materialized. It is great that they continue to work on the problems.
Forgive me if I do not hold my breath on this kind of thing. It's been a pipe dream of research up to this point with many many cases of companies claiming to bring it out real soon now.
Looks like articles on the topic appeared here many times: http://news.slashdot.org/story/00/02/07/160201/better-holographic-data-storage http://tech.slashdot.org/story/00/06/26/228244/how-holographic-storage-works http://tech.slashdot.org/story/04/02/16/1919223/ntt-develops-stamp-size-1gb-hologram-memory http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/05/04/19/0611252/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs http://tech.slashdot.org/story/15/05/13/1647212/new-device-could-greatly-improve-speech-and-image-recognition
So all the people who were abandoned by Google when they discontinued the Postini service and then moved to McAfee/MX Logic are again looking for a life raft.
Anti-spam filtering is tough, which is why everyone would like to outsource this thankless task.
We are going to end up with 2 dominant mail systems at this rate. It's going to be a Google Apps or Office365 (Exchange online) duopoly for mail servers.
But the company has not done themselves any favours in their choices of distribution channels.
If they want more penetration they need to start pushing product into the mass market distributors like Ingram Micro, Synnex, Tech Data, and D&H. These are who most of the retailers do 99% of their purchasing through. That is who they have integrated their point of sale systems with to populate their web stores, and do EDI for inventory management so that's who they tend to deal with when some customer comes and asks for a new product they don't stock yet. If they have to go push a bunch of paper to get a new distributor account setup it better be a good sized deal.
So far I just see Ubiquiti dealing with the specialist distributors who deal with wireless radio specialities. That's not going to get their access points on the shelves of your local computer dealer or the small and medium sized consulting companies who tend to run the IT departments of small businesses where their products really do fit well.
Ubiquiti is doing a bad job of targeting their channel market from what I can tell. They are designing a product that does away with the complexity of enterprise level equivilants. They don't need dedicated controllers sitting in an enterprise datacentre to run the stuff, but they give a small business many of the same benefits that the enterprise guys sell at a half of the enterprise price premium but the small businesses that really need that stuff are services by local computer stores and small consultants who are not always wireless specialists. They are generalists and they deal with the mass market distributors where they can get 99% of their needs filled. So yeah, they buy the Netgear access point or the Asus wireless router that's in stock and they make due with the consumer grade equipment, consumer grade power supply, and get on with it.
So, when a bank is robbed and the thieves use a getaway car then he should obviously be blaming the roads, or the car companies, maybe the gas station for allowing them to be transported to the bank and away from the scene of the crime.
Why is it that the method of transport is suddenly to blame here? If we always use the car analogy to describe technology concepts then should the roadways be inspecting the contents and destination of all travellers to prevent or detect crimes?
So in this analogy we have criminals who committed the crime and the bank (Sony) where the locks were found to be insufficient and the guards were not watching the right doors. Why does the blame need to extend beyond those parties?
Of course the governments would probably jump at the chance to inspect all traffic and the contents of all vehicles on the road if they thought they could get away with it. To protect the people of course, no other reason.
8.1 is not an automatic update. It requires launching the store, accepting the update and waiting for the lengthy download and install process to finish. I have seen plenty of Windows 8 PC's that nobody bothered to upgrade. Not a single person I have talked to still running 8.0 was even aware of the upgrade. It's not like they made a conscious choice to stick with 8.0, they simply didn't bother to even find out. Microsoft would have to make a greater effort to force them to upgrade through automatic update and continuous prompts that keep requesting permission to download and upgrade when they boot up to get this to change.
That's pretty much the one and only reason why most of these users have not upgraded on their own. 95% of those windows 8.0 users are simply not clued in to the fact an upgrade should be done. 4% likely had problems getting the upgrade to install or download so just stick with 8.0 rather than troubleshoot the issue. Lets peg 1% or less are those choosing to stick with 8.0 (good enough for them, corporate standard, too much trouble, not enough bandwidth to download, etc etc)
Car makers can simply support both protocols in their built in systems and whatever device you bring just pairs up with it.
Why would an automaker want to exclude potential customers by only supporting one method or the other is the question you need to ask. Unless Apple or Google is subsidising the cost of the car they just want to make the most attractive package possible and sell more cars.
Personally I avoid using Godaddy unless there is one of those sales where they are selling domain registration or transfers at below cost.
I have registered a fair number of domains with them at the $1 to $5 price points you can sometimes get and when a decent coupon for transfer comes up from someone better like Namecheap I transfer them away. Godaddy looses money on the deal. I might transfer those domains back into godaddy on another below cost transfer deal but I just transfer it back out again if I find another deal or if the renewal is approaching. I have never paid them the normal cost of renewal. Every time I have done any business with them it's below the approximately $7.85 cost they are paying to the central registry.
So if you advocate a boycott of Godaddy that's fine. But if you want to hurt them even more then take advantage of their below cost coupons when you can and actually cost the company money but remember to transfer those domains away again when you can.
You can get really nice industrial cable trays. Mount them high enough that they aren't immediately noticeable but they maintain that industrial and exposed look.
The good ones are powder coated so you can get a colour of your choice to match the office.
Use a tool called a cable comb when you are running the cables to put the cables into very straight and neat bundles.
Here is the manufacturer of a good quality system for cable trays: http://wiremaidusa.com/ (they have many resellers. Your cabling contractor likely deals with a supplier who can get this)
Here is the cable comb tool for making straightened bundles of cables that look neat in they tray: http://www.acomtools.com/
If you want something more enclosed then you can go to full conduit installation using metal pipes. The pipes can then be painted to match your ceiling colour.
Would it shock anyone to know I actually did this reboot to a malfunctioning public Wifi base station recently and it worked?
I had a client moving into a new commercial location where the local cable company (Shaw) has one of their public Wi-Fi terminals installed.
They did not have their own network connection yet (booked for a few days later) so we just joined their computer to the public network but it was horrible. The connection showed moderate to high packet loss which was strange because the base station was in the roof a few feet away. Even doing a ping test to first hop (the base station) was showing the packet loss problem. Increasing the packet size on the ping tests showed the problem was got worse as you increased the packets so anything that wanted a sustained download and not small little transactions was suffering worse effects.
So I went into the back, found the power injector for the base station and cut the power. Plugged it back in, and after the reboot it was working well. No more packet loss, and a usable connection.
Maybe Shaw needs to update the firmware on these Cisco base stations they are using.
Back when EDI (Electronic data interchange) was new it was often described as each transaction costing "similar to a long distance fax" back in the days when long distance was expensive. Was about $1.50 per transaction.
They measure the data in KC (kilo characters). Typical pricing back when it was popular was $0.50 per KC in early 90's plus many other fees. (could have been more when it first came out)
For a small company you would make a dialup connection to a VAN (Value Added Network) to submit a transaction and check for new transaction responses. Larger companies would have a permanent X25 network connection to the VAN which would have it's own monthly connection fees and data fees but was faster and near instant. There are still legacy users of these EDI VAN networks who have not shifted to the Internet versions of the EDI standards. Hopefully they renegotiated their rates at some point and didn't just let their contract auto-renew all these years.
SMS is easily the most expensive current communication on a per MB basis in common use today and it gets more expensive as providers tend to increase the rates on SMS and not lower them. $0.25 per message domestic, $0.60 per roaming message on Telus.
I was randomly selected for the SSS tag on my boarding pass. It was great. We were in Phoenix and the regular screening line was massive, at least an hour long. The "special" line had about 10 people in it. We zipped right through. Would have needed to skip lunch if we were in the regular line.
We noticed the letters on the pass too before entering the lines so I guess they have not really cared about this "issue" in the past.
I think the special screening is more of a quality control measure on the regular screening guys than it's a real boost to security.
It was possible to register the same name with a different province but the original owner would have to give you written permission first so it was less likely to occur. I can find a few examples where two different companies did get their provincial level domain and now one of them has claimed the second level domain. But it's very rare. Most of the time if another company wanted to register the domain in their province and the system told them it was unavailable they wouldn't pursue it further and try to get permission, they would just pick something else.
So yes, owning mydomain.ab.ca used to mean that the system would not allow anyone else to register mydomain.bc.ca or mydomain.ca. They used to require proof that your corporation was registered nationwide before they would let you use the second level national domain but they would reserve all variations on second and third levels of your domain name automatically. When the system switched to putting all domains at the second level then most of those provincial domain name owners got their second level name registered. They can keep the historical old one and keep paying for it or let it expire and only keep the second level version. There was no discount or extra costs for second or third level domains. They never tried to kick up the costs to register the second level domains.
Maybe the UK could handle their second level domains the same way? I mean they still get the extra money from people who decide to keep both versions but at least they are not raising the pricing.
Primary reason is the many billions of dollars of development needed to figure it all out.
There is no design for a "working commercial thorium reactors". It's all just bits and pieces of theory, and experimental reactors that only answered some of the questions.
It's a possible technology, just not an actual technology. Kind of like the guy at NASA who recently got into the news for a pen and paper proposal of how warp speed might be possible. We are still a long way from building interstellar spaceships. Just like we are long way from building a Thorium salt reactor that works and is economically viable.
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I can just see the executive meeting.
They will simply raise the prices to make up for the missing revenue.
Seriously are you not the owner of your own equipment anymore?
I can understand them having a bios level warning that can be disabled for this kind of thing. Similar to how you can put a machine into secure boot mode or disable it if you want.
But outright blocking the machine from operating with no "I understand the risk click OK to continue" type of thing is complete anti consumer BS.
What is the point of this? Do they really think it's a long term benefit to their customers?
Correct.
Lastpass is now firmly in control of the price doubling jerks at Logmein.
There has been 1 doubling of price for Lastpass since being bought. Next one is likely still 6-9 months until being announced if the pattern holds
I think Logmein main product now costs a few billion dollars per computer but I have not checked recently. I switched when my Logmein central went from $150 to over $10,000.
The product was always excellent but the guys in management. I just have to assume some kind of corporate version of insanity exists there.
I believe they survive because there are some dysfunctional accounts payable departments where once a supplier is approved the amounts are never checked. So they can raise the pricing and nobody checks because it's an "approved" vendor from years back and they just pay whatever price is on the invoice. Any sane customers have cancelled their logmein accounts long ago.
I'm not surprised that they lost data. It's not even the first time.
I signed up ages ago with a unique email address in 2007 only used to sign up for their service with all partner offers and marketing choices if there were any set to no. Format of user-randomstring@domain.com
I started getting spam to their unique tag years ago so they lost data before. I may have kept a sample of the first spam but I think it was in 2008-2009 timeframe.
So I see they spent a bunch of time and effort looking at records for PDA and security gates and cell towers etc.
But it seems like the pattern wasn't too hard to predict.
Why not just catch him at the golf course the next time?
The peer to peer is the feature I have no really good drop in replacement for right now.
I liked that it did not require VPN as it would arbitrate the connection between the peers in two different sites. It worked well for small businesses (really small like less than 10 employees) where you often had the owner or someone who would setup a computer at home to use as a backup target. They usually also subscribed to the cloud service but it was nice to have that copy of data nearby where someone could run home and get the drives and drive it back far faster than doing a large restore over the internet in case of a large dataloss like drive crash.
The big thing was it generally worked on a home router without special configuration. So if the owner with the backup at home upgrades their ISP and the installer brings a new router as an "upgrade" I don't get a call or email saying the backup stopped working because the custom firewall rules are gone. Or more often they have a glitch in their Internet at home and step 2 of the phone call to the ISP to troubleshoot is to hold down the reset button for 5 seconds until it reboots with factory default settings.
Seems like most alternatives want to use something like SFTP which is fine, except in a home router you likely need to setup port forwarding, DHCP reservation or static IP of the home computer/backup server, dynamic DNS client, and usually change the listening port to something the ISP isn't blocking on dynamic IP accounts.
Looks like the fact they never charged for this part of the software wasn't sustainable.
Alternatives I'm considering (none seem to have the peer to peer through NAT router feature)
https://duplicacy.com/
https://www.goodsync.com/business
Still building a list, I'm sure I'm going to find more. Some other replies mention software I need to check out like Spideroak
Many of these websites have way too much marketing BS and not enough solid technical descriptions of what the product actually does and what it looks like doing it. I'm really tired of deciphering the BS, I wish more products just gave a simple product tour as their primary marketing push. A few screenshots goes a long way with me.
Leaning to products that also support Backblaze B2 as a bring your own cloud storage option. I doubt another cloud provider is offering anything like crashplan peer to peer destination which was totally unique in a backup to cloud product offering.
Yep, lifetime VIP and lifetime free standard DNS for up to 50 domains here. Donated to dyndns in the 90s and bought lifetime with editdns before they were taken over by dyndns.
For anyone who was paying it was already looking pretty bad with constant price increases and reductions in features and service for the lower priced options. Only the fully managed anycast DNS platform appeared to be getting much attention. Host logs from dynamic clients has been broken for years for example. The number of requests allowed for standard DNS keeps getting lowered and I cannot name a single new feature they have added to standard DNS in the last 5 years. You cannot even allow zone transfers anymore since they took over from editdns so during the ddos you could not have secondary DNS with another provider unless you manually recreate the zone entries.
So yes, sounds pretty much as you would expect. The hardware in the console doesn't change but it also needs to hit a certain price point at launch. Usually the hardware of a console is sold at about a break even price point right when launched and profits come from game licensing and eventual production cost improvements. Given that the typical price of a new console these days is around $400 or $500 you would never expect the state of the art GPU to be included as those parts alone are going to exceed that price point. So yes, this years new crop of GPU designs is likely a safe bet for this mass market device launch next year. Remember for the $400 price you still have to include storage, processor, power supply, enclosure, packaging and all the other bits and pieces.
So sure, a current gaming PC costing 3x or more of a console is more powerful and will continue to outpace the console performance as time marches on. Apples and oranges. For pure gaming performance the consoles usually do pretty good on bang for the buck.
Time to slap the "Flowers By Irene" stickers back on the side of this one.
I have heard about holographic memory being the next big thing in storage since the 90's. In 2001 there were companies "demonstrating" prototypes they said would be on the mass market soon that never materialized. It is great that they continue to work on the problems.
Forgive me if I do not hold my breath on this kind of thing. It's been a pipe dream of research up to this point with many many cases of companies claiming to bring it out real soon now.
Looks like articles on the topic appeared here many times:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/00/02/07/160201/better-holographic-data-storage
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/00/06/26/228244/how-holographic-storage-works
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/04/02/16/1919223/ntt-develops-stamp-size-1gb-hologram-memory
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/05/04/19/0611252/inphase-announces-300gb-holographic-discs
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/15/05/13/1647212/new-device-could-greatly-improve-speech-and-image-recognition
So all the people who were abandoned by Google when they discontinued the Postini service and then moved to McAfee/MX Logic are again looking for a life raft.
Anti-spam filtering is tough, which is why everyone would like to outsource this thankless task.
We are going to end up with 2 dominant mail systems at this rate. It's going to be a Google Apps or Office365 (Exchange online) duopoly for mail servers.
Lots of love.
But the company has not done themselves any favours in their choices of distribution channels.
If they want more penetration they need to start pushing product into the mass market distributors like Ingram Micro, Synnex, Tech Data, and D&H. These are who most of the retailers do 99% of their purchasing through. That is who they have integrated their point of sale systems with to populate their web stores, and do EDI for inventory management so that's who they tend to deal with when some customer comes and asks for a new product they don't stock yet. If they have to go push a bunch of paper to get a new distributor account setup it better be a good sized deal.
So far I just see Ubiquiti dealing with the specialist distributors who deal with wireless radio specialities. That's not going to get their access points on the shelves of your local computer dealer or the small and medium sized consulting companies who tend to run the IT departments of small businesses where their products really do fit well.
Ubiquiti is doing a bad job of targeting their channel market from what I can tell. They are designing a product that does away with the complexity of enterprise level equivilants. They don't need dedicated controllers sitting in an enterprise datacentre to run the stuff, but they give a small business many of the same benefits that the enterprise guys sell at a half of the enterprise price premium but the small businesses that really need that stuff are services by local computer stores and small consultants who are not always wireless specialists. They are generalists and they deal with the mass market distributors where they can get 99% of their needs filled. So yeah, they buy the Netgear access point or the Asus wireless router that's in stock and they make due with the consumer grade equipment, consumer grade power supply, and get on with it.
Actually, now that you mention it
http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-James-Stewart/dp/1285740629
8th edition available March 20, 2015.
Price: $266.99
So, when a bank is robbed and the thieves use a getaway car then he should obviously be blaming the roads, or the car companies, maybe the gas station for allowing them to be transported to the bank and away from the scene of the crime.
Why is it that the method of transport is suddenly to blame here? If we always use the car analogy to describe technology concepts then should the roadways be inspecting the contents and destination of all travellers to prevent or detect crimes?
So in this analogy we have criminals who committed the crime and the bank (Sony) where the locks were found to be insufficient and the guards were not watching the right doors. Why does the blame need to extend beyond those parties?
Of course the governments would probably jump at the chance to inspect all traffic and the contents of all vehicles on the road if they thought they could get away with it. To protect the people of course, no other reason.
Why am I picturing something out the TV series "The Prisoner" from the late 60's
https://www.google.ca/search?q=the+prisoner&espv=2&biw=1117&bih=629&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=T4JqVImWGpWzyATShICwCQ&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAg#tbm=isch&q=the%20prisoner%201967&revid=649089287&imgdii=_
Number 6?
Somehow scary giant floating white bubbles chasing you down?
8.1 is not an automatic update. It requires launching the store, accepting the update and waiting for the lengthy download and install process to finish. I have seen plenty of Windows 8 PC's that nobody bothered to upgrade. Not a single person I have talked to still running 8.0 was even aware of the upgrade. It's not like they made a conscious choice to stick with 8.0, they simply didn't bother to even find out. Microsoft would have to make a greater effort to force them to upgrade through automatic update and continuous prompts that keep requesting permission to download and upgrade when they boot up to get this to change.
That's pretty much the one and only reason why most of these users have not upgraded on their own. 95% of those windows 8.0 users are simply not clued in to the fact an upgrade should be done. 4% likely had problems getting the upgrade to install or download so just stick with 8.0 rather than troubleshoot the issue. Lets peg 1% or less are those choosing to stick with 8.0 (good enough for them, corporate standard, too much trouble, not enough bandwidth to download, etc etc)
Why would it have to be exclusive?
Car makers can simply support both protocols in their built in systems and whatever device you bring just pairs up with it.
Why would an automaker want to exclude potential customers by only supporting one method or the other is the question you need to ask. Unless Apple or Google is subsidising the cost of the car they just want to make the most attractive package possible and sell more cars.
Personally I avoid using Godaddy unless there is one of those sales where they are selling domain registration or transfers at below cost.
I have registered a fair number of domains with them at the $1 to $5 price points you can sometimes get and when a decent coupon for transfer comes up from someone better like Namecheap I transfer them away. Godaddy looses money on the deal. I might transfer those domains back into godaddy on another below cost transfer deal but I just transfer it back out again if I find another deal or if the renewal is approaching. I have never paid them the normal cost of renewal. Every time I have done any business with them it's below the approximately $7.85 cost they are paying to the central registry.
So if you advocate a boycott of Godaddy that's fine. But if you want to hurt them even more then take advantage of their below cost coupons when you can and actually cost the company money but remember to transfer those domains away again when you can.
You can get really nice industrial cable trays. Mount them high enough that they aren't immediately noticeable but they maintain that industrial and exposed look.
The good ones are powder coated so you can get a colour of your choice to match the office.
Use a tool called a cable comb when you are running the cables to put the cables into very straight and neat bundles.
Here is the manufacturer of a good quality system for cable trays:
http://wiremaidusa.com/
(they have many resellers. Your cabling contractor likely deals with a supplier who can get this)
Here is the cable comb tool for making straightened bundles of cables that look neat in they tray:
http://www.acomtools.com/
If you want something more enclosed then you can go to full conduit installation using metal pipes. The pipes can then be painted to match your ceiling colour.
Would it shock anyone to know I actually did this reboot to a malfunctioning public Wifi base station recently and it worked?
I had a client moving into a new commercial location where the local cable company (Shaw) has one of their public Wi-Fi terminals installed.
They did not have their own network connection yet (booked for a few days later) so we just joined their computer to the public network but it was horrible. The connection showed moderate to high packet loss which was strange because the base station was in the roof a few feet away. Even doing a ping test to first hop (the base station) was showing the packet loss problem. Increasing the packet size on the ping tests showed the problem was got worse as you increased the packets so anything that wanted a sustained download and not small little transactions was suffering worse effects.
So I went into the back, found the power injector for the base station and cut the power. Plugged it back in, and after the reboot it was working well. No more packet loss, and a usable connection.
Maybe Shaw needs to update the firmware on these Cisco base stations they are using.
The large brained fish decided to focus on their careers instead of settling down to raise a family.
Back when EDI (Electronic data interchange) was new it was often described as each transaction costing "similar to a long distance fax" back in the days when long distance was expensive. Was about $1.50 per transaction.
They measure the data in KC (kilo characters). Typical pricing back when it was popular was $0.50 per KC in early 90's plus many other fees. (could have been more when it first came out)
For a small company you would make a dialup connection to a VAN (Value Added Network) to submit a transaction and check for new transaction responses. Larger companies would have a permanent X25 network connection to the VAN which would have it's own monthly connection fees and data fees but was faster and near instant. There are still legacy users of these EDI VAN networks who have not shifted to the Internet versions of the EDI standards. Hopefully they renegotiated their rates at some point and didn't just let their contract auto-renew all these years.
SMS is easily the most expensive current communication on a per MB basis in common use today and it gets more expensive as providers tend to increase the rates on SMS and not lower them. $0.25 per message domestic, $0.60 per roaming message on Telus.
I was randomly selected for the SSS tag on my boarding pass. It was great. We were in Phoenix and the regular screening line was massive, at least an hour long. The "special" line had about 10 people in it. We zipped right through. Would have needed to skip lunch if we were in the regular line.
We noticed the letters on the pass too before entering the lines so I guess they have not really cared about this "issue" in the past.
I think the special screening is more of a quality control measure on the regular screening guys than it's a real boost to security.
It was possible to register the same name with a different province but the original owner would have to give you written permission first so it was less likely to occur. I can find a few examples where two different companies did get their provincial level domain and now one of them has claimed the second level domain. But it's very rare. Most of the time if another company wanted to register the domain in their province and the system told them it was unavailable they wouldn't pursue it further and try to get permission, they would just pick something else.
So yes, owning mydomain.ab.ca used to mean that the system would not allow anyone else to register mydomain.bc.ca or mydomain.ca. They used to require proof that your corporation was registered nationwide before they would let you use the second level national domain but they would reserve all variations on second and third levels of your domain name automatically. When the system switched to putting all domains at the second level then most of those provincial domain name owners got their second level name registered. They can keep the historical old one and keep paying for it or let it expire and only keep the second level version. There was no discount or extra costs for second or third level domains. They never tried to kick up the costs to register the second level domains.
Maybe the UK could handle their second level domains the same way? I mean they still get the extra money from people who decide to keep both versions but at least they are not raising the pricing.
Primary reason is the many billions of dollars of development needed to figure it all out.
There is no design for a "working commercial thorium reactors". It's all just bits and pieces of theory, and experimental reactors that only answered some of the questions.
It's a possible technology, just not an actual technology. Kind of like the guy at NASA who recently got into the news for a pen and paper proposal of how warp speed might be possible. We are still a long way from building interstellar spaceships. Just like we are long way from building a Thorium salt reactor that works and is economically viable.