a full-room CO2 supression system in a commercial or residential space is totally illegal
I'm seen several full-room systems in spaces currently or formerly occupied by $wireless_carrier that we do a lot of work for. I don't think they're as illegal as you'd like to think they are.
Think about it and ask yourself why it would be illegal?
The problem is that most "fireproof" boxes/safes/whatever are fireproof for paper, and if you look at the data plate on them, you'll find that they'll keep the internal contents down to 350F for up to an hour. This is enough to keep paper from burning, but any tapes/CDs/whatever will melt as soon as the temperature hits 170F. Your best bet is an offsite copy in someplace like a deposit box at the local bank.
I tried installing it on my colour palm, and it requires a High-res Palm device. This is pretty much a Clié-only application. Pity it doesn't work on my i300, since most palm-based calculator apps out there are fscking worthless.
Apples aren't grown from seeds as each seed in an apple is genetically different from the tree it came from (and from each other). This is how the apple as a species got so diverse. To reliably grow the same variety over and over, scions of the desired variety are grafted onto rootstocks.
First their version of HillaryCare that even the Oregonian voters had the good sense to bury, now this.
Maybe they should follow the example of road-use fees implemented elsewhere in the US that have been successful since the 17th century, and in Europe at least as far back as the Roman Empire: Toll Roads.
Just because you did something illegal to someone doesn't make it any more legal for them to turn around and do something illegal to you. If someone steals your TV, going and burning their house down, as tempting as the idea might sound, isn't any more legal than it was.
Therefore, Even if you "steal music", RIAA is still "infringing on your rights (whatever those may be - broadband isn't a right)".
Back in the 1980s, an artist created an installation in the New York Subway called Masstransiscope which essentially turned the subway into an unrolled and oversized zoetrope.
I heard an ad on the radio this afternoon, for roadrunner, advertising how "with roadrunner high speed online, you can download music for your road trip".
So, on one hand, to get people to sign up, they're touting broadband for downloading music, but once you're paying for the service, they yank the carrot away. Cute. And they wonder why AOLTW debt is trading around junk levels.
Nope, I was referring to the SunRay 1 specifically - We smoked more of those than i care to remember when i was working at Sun's Broomfield campus. Sun's interim solution was to take the wedges out of their plastic stands and lay them on their sides. All three models have seen price increases. The 150 is now $1400 (up from $1200), and the 100 is $960 (up from $800-850 or so) What was changed during the design refresh, and how do I identify a refreshed model?
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I just got a bid on 75 of these units with a server. $460, plus the $40 country kit. They *used* to be $400 total. Sun has actually increased the price on these since they came out.
Also, the RCA port on those is *input*, not output. It's designed to hook in a SunCamera or somesuch composit source. The caveat is that the current version of the server software doesn't support that yet (Real Soon Now!).
The motherboard is actually running a 110-MHz sun4m chip, the same that was in the JavaStations. 8MB of RAM onboard, only uses 2MB, but 8MB was the most cost-effective chip size they could get. For what this machine does, it's still overkill.
As for never upgrading, the first-generation SunRay 1 units would smoke the power supply like clockwork after 9 months of usage, due to overheating problems. Sun has apparently resolved this.
I recently pitched my boss on these, since the vast majority of our users have no need for a full-blown PC, and I spend 75% of my time dealing with desktop issues. That means a lot more expansion before having to hire another IT guy. Initially, we'll be using Citrix on the Sun machine, going back to Windows, but we have the option of kicking Microsoft to the curb, should we want to. The *capital* cost of these over the next several years is less than half that of continuing with a 3-year upgrade cycle on PCs, even after factoring in servers. They really liked the idea of being able to keep their work if the building lost power (sessions live on the server, which should have backup power)
Another poster mentioned the SPOF issue, but SunRay server software works well in a clustered environment, as well as a multi-server environment.
Experian has an entire division that deals with the automotive industry. Of late, they've been pushing hard their ASP model of Dealer Management Systems (DMS).
Back Story: I am the IT administrator for a midwestern dealership that sells German luxury cars. I am the first person at this dealership to be a dedicated IT person, and I've only been here for a few months. Approximately 20% of dealers nationwide have dedicated IT staff, and even then, it's usually the multi-location/multi-franchise operations, with one IT admin spread across an entire metro area. This isn't overly significant, until you realize that the average level of technological competence at the dealer level is just barely above room temperature. A handful of companies, such as ADP, EDS, Reynolds & Reynolds, and UCS, have figured out how to exploit this particular niche market.
Dealer Management Systems are BIG bucks. What you do is you put together a package of desktop systems (originally, green-screen dumb terminals, but more recently, PCs), a server (Usually Unix-based - Reynolds & Reynolds uses Irix on their older systems and Linux on their newer ones), software that does soup to nuts, and a network to tie the whole thing together. They sell this to a dealership, and then lock them into a support and maintenance contract. Changes, updates, etcetera all cost large sums of money (we spent 6 figures with our vendor last year). They'll also sell you preprinted forms and everything that work with their software - checks, service orders, coupons, you name it.
Experian is pushing the ASP model, because it means that a dealer doesn't have to worry about a server in a closet, swapping backup tapes, and so forth. As part of the hook, Experian is promoting its vast mine of data as a major benefit. As one of the Big Three credit bureaus, they have detailed financial, credit, and personal data on jsut about everyone in the country. They also have a database of (according to them) 335 million vehicles. This is great for doing history checks and such, but it can get very scary very quickly.
Picture this. You want to find out who lives within 15 miles of your dealership and makes enough money to afford your luxury automobiles (when it's luxury, it's more than just a car, it's an automobile). "No problem", says Experian, "we've got all that right here!". They can also tell you if they're credit-worthy, what they drive, and which of your competitors they bought their current vehicle from, and what it's worth as a trade-in. It goes downhill from there. None of the other companies operating credit bureaus have a division catering directly to the automotive business like this.
Let's face it, your personal data isn't personal anymore, it's an asset, and it belongs to companies like Experian.
The problem with using leet-speak now is that it's so common. If I were cracking passwords, the first thing I'd do is leetify all the common ones - I'd be willing to bet that I could get another 5%.
Oh, you're definitely not the only one - I still do a fair bit of technology work for my dad and his farm just outside DeSoto (yes, there are still parts of Johnson County that have arable land) - This weekend, I'm going to finish setting up a greenhouse temperature monitoring system using Dallas Semiconductor sensors and RRDTool. Probably going to expand the LAN while I'm there, too.
There are more and more areas where agriculture and technology converge, and geeks like us with the unique background in both are in a good position to take advantage of that situation.
I'm real curious what they'll do about people like me who use 'doze as their primary desktop, but hang it behind a NAT box (router appliance or linux box), just so that the 'doze machine isn't on the public network. Fortunately, I'm not on Comcast, but I'm sure RoadRunner will get a wild hair and decide that this is a good idea.
As a result, I suspect firewall and kernel coders will change NAT's behaviour, making it harder to fingerprint (which makes it inherently more secure).
However, 802.11 is allowed by the FCC to go up to 1W (Total ERP). Europe limits it to 100mW, which is why most 802.11 devices are limited to around 100mW.
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a full-room CO2 supression system in a commercial or residential space is totally illegal
I'm seen several full-room systems in spaces currently or formerly occupied by $wireless_carrier that we do a lot of work for. I don't think they're as illegal as you'd like to think they are.
Think about it and ask yourself why it would be illegal?
The problem is that most "fireproof" boxes/safes/whatever are fireproof for paper, and if you look at the data plate on them, you'll find that they'll keep the internal contents down to 350F for up to an hour. This is enough to keep paper from burning, but any tapes/CDs/whatever will melt as soon as the temperature hits 170F. Your best bet is an offsite copy in someplace like a deposit box at the local bank.
If you can't put your finger on it, that may be your problem.
(and if you can, you might get GUI).
You use a mouse for that?
Does this mean women are better at CLI?
I tried installing it on my colour palm, and it requires a High-res Palm device. This is pretty much a Clié-only application. Pity it doesn't work on my i300, since most palm-based calculator apps out there are fscking worthless.
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Apples aren't grown from seeds as each seed in an apple is genetically different from the tree it came from (and from each other). This is how the apple as a species got so diverse. To reliably grow the same variety over and over, scions of the desired variety are grafted onto rootstocks.
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Maybe they should follow the example of road-use fees implemented elsewhere in the US that have been successful since the 17th century, and in Europe at least as far back as the Roman Empire: Toll Roads.
Or Microsoft offered the school massive discounts on the wholesale cost of the software for the bookstore. And/Or kickbacks.
I'd be willing to bet their "unique extraction process" involves cleaning the CO/CO2 scrubbers in the smokestack.
Just because you did something illegal to someone doesn't make it any more legal for them to turn around and do something illegal to you. If someone steals your TV, going and burning their house down, as tempting as the idea might sound, isn't any more legal than it was.
Therefore, Even if you "steal music", RIAA is still "infringing on your rights (whatever those may be - broadband isn't a right)".
Back in the 1980s, an artist created an installation in the New York Subway called Masstransiscope which essentially turned the subway into an unrolled and oversized zoetrope.
Does that make this situation a 'kernel panic' ?
I heard an ad on the radio this afternoon, for roadrunner, advertising how "with roadrunner high speed online, you can download music for your road trip".
So, on one hand, to get people to sign up, they're touting broadband for downloading music, but once you're paying for the service, they yank the carrot away. Cute. And they wonder why AOLTW debt is trading around junk levels.
Nope, I was referring to the SunRay 1 specifically - We smoked more of those than i care to remember when i was working at Sun's Broomfield campus. Sun's interim solution was to take the wedges out of their plastic stands and lay them on their sides.
All three models have seen price increases. The 150 is now $1400 (up from $1200), and the 100 is $960 (up from $800-850 or so)
What was changed during the design refresh, and how do I identify a refreshed model?
Also, the RCA port on those is *input*, not output. It's designed to hook in a SunCamera or somesuch composit source. The caveat is that the current version of the server software doesn't support that yet (Real Soon Now!).
The motherboard is actually running a 110-MHz sun4m chip, the same that was in the JavaStations. 8MB of RAM onboard, only uses 2MB, but 8MB was the most cost-effective chip size they could get. For what this machine does, it's still overkill.
As for never upgrading, the first-generation SunRay 1 units would smoke the power supply like clockwork after 9 months of usage, due to overheating problems. Sun has apparently resolved this.
I recently pitched my boss on these, since the vast majority of our users have no need for a full-blown PC, and I spend 75% of my time dealing with desktop issues. That means a lot more expansion before having to hire another IT guy. Initially, we'll be using Citrix on the Sun machine, going back to Windows, but we have the option of kicking Microsoft to the curb, should we want to. The *capital* cost of these over the next several years is less than half that of continuing with a 3-year upgrade cycle on PCs, even after factoring in servers. They really liked the idea of being able to keep their work if the building lost power (sessions live on the server, which should have backup power)
Another poster mentioned the SPOF issue, but SunRay server software works well in a clustered environment, as well as a multi-server environment.
Back Story: I am the IT administrator for a midwestern dealership that sells German luxury cars. I am the first person at this dealership to be a dedicated IT person, and I've only been here for a few months. Approximately 20% of dealers nationwide have dedicated IT staff, and even then, it's usually the multi-location/multi-franchise operations, with one IT admin spread across an entire metro area. This isn't overly significant, until you realize that the average level of technological competence at the dealer level is just barely above room temperature. A handful of companies, such as ADP, EDS, Reynolds & Reynolds, and UCS, have figured out how to exploit this particular niche market.
Dealer Management Systems are BIG bucks. What you do is you put together a package of desktop systems (originally, green-screen dumb terminals, but more recently, PCs), a server (Usually Unix-based - Reynolds & Reynolds uses Irix on their older systems and Linux on their newer ones), software that does soup to nuts, and a network to tie the whole thing together. They sell this to a dealership, and then lock them into a support and maintenance contract. Changes, updates, etcetera all cost large sums of money (we spent 6 figures with our vendor last year). They'll also sell you preprinted forms and everything that work with their software - checks, service orders, coupons, you name it.
Experian is pushing the ASP model, because it means that a dealer doesn't have to worry about a server in a closet, swapping backup tapes, and so forth. As part of the hook, Experian is promoting its vast mine of data as a major benefit. As one of the Big Three credit bureaus, they have detailed financial, credit, and personal data on jsut about everyone in the country. They also have a database of (according to them) 335 million vehicles. This is great for doing history checks and such, but it can get very scary very quickly.
Picture this. You want to find out who lives within 15 miles of your dealership and makes enough money to afford your luxury automobiles (when it's luxury, it's more than just a car, it's an automobile). "No problem", says Experian, "we've got all that right here!". They can also tell you if they're credit-worthy, what they drive, and which of your competitors they bought their current vehicle from, and what it's worth as a trade-in. It goes downhill from there. None of the other companies operating credit bureaus have a division catering directly to the automotive business like this.
Let's face it, your personal data isn't personal anymore, it's an asset, and it belongs to companies like Experian.
If you look at Cisco's website on the device (listed in the article), it's simply a VOIP-to-POTS converter, so you just plug it into your phone patch.
The problem with using leet-speak now is that it's so common. If I were cracking passwords, the first thing I'd do is leetify all the common ones - I'd be willing to bet that I could get another 5%.
Shoot them.
Oh, you're definitely not the only one - I still do a fair bit of technology work for my dad and his farm just outside DeSoto (yes, there are still parts of Johnson County that have arable land) - This weekend, I'm going to finish setting up a greenhouse temperature monitoring system using Dallas Semiconductor sensors and RRDTool. Probably going to expand the LAN while I'm there, too.
There are more and more areas where agriculture and technology converge, and geeks like us with the unique background in both are in a good position to take advantage of that situation.
For the record, chewing is fscking nasty.
As a result, I suspect firewall and kernel coders will change NAT's behaviour, making it harder to fingerprint (which makes it inherently more secure).
Nah, keep the IRS out of it, and leave it to the USPS - drum up a source of revenue for *them*, as they don't benefit from government funds.
According to spamcop, about 80% of the websites mentioned in my spam are hosted by Qwest.
I don't think this is a coincidence.
Gee, YA THINK?
What was your first clue?
However, 802.11 is allowed by the FCC to go up to 1W (Total ERP). Europe limits it to 100mW, which is why most 802.11 devices are limited to around 100mW.