I agree when it comes to backing up, but not necessarily on the archival issue. Whenever you are planning long term archival, your best shot is a nice laser print out on acid free paper. If this is simply not possible then your second best choice will be a media which you suspect you will be able to read in the next 25 years, and in this case my money is on CD/DVD rather than on a particular type of tape.
Try getting now a days a QIC tape drive which will read a 20 year old tape (QIC-40). You might be able to find a used tape drive in ebay, but I can assure you computer tapes do get eaten up, specially when the tape drive is not under pristine conditions. Sending the tape to an off site recovery center might not always be feasible (either due to the urgency of the request, data sensitivity or simply because there might be no service which can handle your format). Even now, you are better off with 3.5 inch floppies rather than QIC-40 tapes. Further more, don't even get me started on the issue that will be getting the device drivers to work on modern day hardware.
To cover your rear against data loss on unreliable media such as CDs / DVDs do make a second copy of the volume. Seriously, it takes 5 minutes and almost guarantees you that the data will be available no matter what. Store them separately, and you will be set.
There is no serious study that can be 100% conclusive. If anybody comes to you preaching 100%-fool-proof numbers that is a sure tale-tale sign you are dealing with a wanker. What you can do is set extremely low chances for your study to be wrong (less than 2%, less than 1%, etc). Unfortunately the closer you get to zero, the more effort (read size of your case study) you must put into it. At some point you have to have some faith in probability.
There will always be incredulous people or consipiracy theory types. Not much you can do, there have been now plenty of serious studies which have not found enough evidence to correlate cell phone usage to cancer, to me it is enough to feel safe while using it, but as I said no matter how many studies you make, there will always be people who chooses not to believe in them.
I'd like to thank you and everybody else who worked on Commodore for introducing me to computers and giving me access to these beautiful toys (proud owner of a C64 and a A500). You guys shaped my life, and I suspect the life of many others around here.
"Allowing the USB HD-DVD drive to work on your PC buys you absolutely nothing"
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't HD-DVD content supposed to work only under "sanctioned" devices? I mean, they even went as far as creating the HDMI interface to allow such content to project under "approved" devices.
Doesn't this hack gets us closer to being able to extract whatever content is in those discs? Sure, we still need lots of tinkering to figure out the mapping of the drives and a ripper to extract such contents , but alas, the hardware is there and it is even on the cheap!
Spambots will not necessarily disobey robots.txt. If they choose the wise road, then you only have to include your contact page into robots.txt to avoid your mails getting harvested.
If the spammers want so bad email addresses, why not give it to them? List poisoning will sting them right in the buttocks, and will make them think twice before they even consider sending there dumb spiders to your servers again. Take a look at the following sites for more info:
Several chemists and counter terrorist agents have analyzed and rejected the "blow the plane with liquid explosives" plot that Blair's government "uncovered". In one word they concluded that it is just bullocks. There have been no formal charges against these people and there will hardly be considering how the judge will laugh the prosecution out of court.
But then again, some people will believe anything they hear on Fox.
Playing the dumb game is a slippery road, and there are certainly many ways to outdumb the dumb:
1. Get a new hardrive (extra points for a non-standarized interface). 2. Install an obscure OS (GNU-Hurd, BeOS, etc) on a non NTFS partition. Make sure to boot into text mode by default! 3. Install lynx and visit Hotmail and Yahoo. 4. Enjoy the spammers and his hollywood expert witness expresion when booting!
Alternatively, buy the following auction at ebay: http://tinyurl.com/yjhav2 . I'm certain you'll know what to do next. =)
If you are using outlook, you can use OLSpamCop to rescue the headers and report to pretty much anyone any spam (including enforcement@sec.gov). It is a free download available here: http://www.olspamcop.org/doc.shtml#install
But I seriously doubt the SEC will be interested in origin of the SPAM. More likely they will do an audit on the fraudulent symbol. It usually is much more effective than tracing the origin of the spam, and it is more likely asses will get busted and the criminals (the people who proffit from the poor schmucks buying the stock) will get sent to jail.
Nevertheless, if you want to report and spam, use spamcop so we can mitigate the damage done from the source before it pumps more shit onto the net.
Just one small clarification, the contract was a chinese government contract. Just goes to prove that there are governments out there who still care about the well being of their governed.
"Government however should promote within it's own and never send work away."
Not too long ago, I had the chance to go to a contractor convention of one of our major clients. There, I had the chance to meet our chinese counterpart and even though he seemed very energetic and enthusiastic it was apparent he was far from being on the same level than most of the contractors over there.
Later on, I asked our client what was the deal with the chinese contractor. It turns out the client won a huge government contract, but within the contract, there was a clause which stipulated that 85% of the workforce used to execute the contract had to be chinese, and if required the contractor would be in need to train such required workforce.
I guess that explains a lot on how these people are achieving such levels of productivity in such a short time.
"I'm not sure how to guarantee that everything is going through the VPN and not through the insecure local net."
Assuming you are using Windows 2K-XP, open the VPN connection's properties, select TCP/IP properties (networking properties), click on advanced options and click "use as default gateway..." checkbox.
My system is in spanish, so some some of the labels might not match on a word-per-word basis, but I'm sure you can sort out the differences.
This really has quit being a nerd site hasn't it? I don't even bother with a TV.
Wow!!! you watch movies from a 21 inch display? Man when I grown up I want to buy your exact same setup!. The fact is that most nerds have grown up and gotten a family and a real job. They do have some cash and are willing to spend some of it in proper entretainment.
I play everything on my computer.
computers are nice to work with, but when it comes to watching video you will probably want to seat on a couch and watch it on a proper screen(and no, your computer monitor will simply not fit the bill). If you really want to take the "nerdy" road and watch content off your network you will mod an Xbox and install XBMC.
I think most dvd player software pretty much handles the different standards pretty well.
Think again, there are lots of DVD players who will market themselves as true multiregional (region free + PAL NTSC auto conversion), but when it comes to delivering, *surprise* *surpsrise*; they will either crap themselves in their pants or simply do a half ass job.
Its not only good CGI, the music ("Duel of Fates") basically saved the entire movie. If there is one person George Lucas should be thanking is John Williams. Actually, the music throughout the hexology is clearly a work of art.
Implementing Citrix is quite expensive too! In the end, you will probably end up saving in support and upkeeping, but if you think that the initial investment will be less than a workstation based environment, you are in for a surprise.
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"For backups and archival you need tape backups,"
I agree when it comes to backing up, but not necessarily on the archival issue. Whenever you are planning long term archival, your best shot is a nice laser print out on acid free paper. If this is simply not possible then your second best choice will be a media which you suspect you will be able to read in the next 25 years, and in this case my money is on CD/DVD rather than on a particular type of tape.
Try getting now a days a QIC tape drive which will read a 20 year old tape (QIC-40). You might be able to find a used tape drive in ebay, but I can assure you computer tapes do get eaten up, specially when the tape drive is not under pristine conditions. Sending the tape to an off site recovery center might not always be feasible (either due to the urgency of the request, data sensitivity or simply because there might be no service which can handle your format). Even now, you are better off with 3.5 inch floppies rather than QIC-40 tapes. Further more, don't even get me started on the issue that will be getting the device drivers to work on modern day hardware.
To cover your rear against data loss on unreliable media such as CDs / DVDs do make a second copy of the volume. Seriously, it takes 5 minutes and almost guarantees you that the data will be available no matter what. Store them separately, and you will be set.
"Case studies, otherwise known as anecdotes, aren't scientific."
My bad; you are right. I was trying to refer to the size of the sample from the population being studied, and doing so with simple terms.
"100% conclusive"
There is no serious study that can be 100% conclusive. If anybody comes to you preaching 100%-fool-proof numbers that is a sure tale-tale sign you are dealing with a wanker. What you can do is set extremely low chances for your study to be wrong (less than 2%, less than 1%, etc). Unfortunately the closer you get to zero, the more effort (read size of your case study) you must put into it. At some point you have to have some faith in probability.
There will always be incredulous people or consipiracy theory types. Not much you can do, there have been now plenty of serious studies which have not found enough evidence to correlate cell phone usage to cancer, to me it is enough to feel safe while using it, but as I said no matter how many studies you make, there will always be people who chooses not to believe in them.
I'd like to thank you and everybody else who worked on Commodore for introducing me to computers and giving me access to these beautiful toys (proud owner of a C64 and a A500). You guys shaped my life, and I suspect the life of many others around here.
"Allowing the USB HD-DVD drive to work on your PC buys you absolutely nothing"
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't HD-DVD content supposed to work only under "sanctioned" devices? I mean, they even went as far as creating the HDMI interface to allow such content to project under "approved" devices.
Doesn't this hack gets us closer to being able to extract whatever content is in those discs? Sure, we still need lots of tinkering to figure out the mapping of the drives and a ripper to extract such contents , but alas, the hardware is there and it is even on the cheap!
Spambots will not necessarily disobey robots.txt. If they choose the wise road, then you only have to include your contact page into robots.txt to avoid your mails getting harvested.
If the spammers want so bad email addresses, why not give it to them? List poisoning will sting them right in the buttocks, and will make them think twice before they even consider sending there dumb spiders to your servers again. Take a look at the following sites for more info:
http://www.monkeys.com/wpoison/
http://www.spampoison.com/
Several chemists and counter terrorist agents have analyzed and rejected the "blow the plane with liquid explosives" plot that Blair's government "uncovered". In one word they concluded that it is just bullocks. There have been no formal charges against these people and there will hardly be considering how the judge will laugh the prosecution out of court.
But then again, some people will believe anything they hear on Fox.
"It gives most of you something more with Microsoft about which you may gripe. "
Slashdot needs this new windows version, as bad as Microsoft does!
Playing the dumb game is a slippery road, and there are certainly many ways to outdumb the dumb:
1. Get a new hardrive (extra points for a non-standarized interface).
2. Install an obscure OS (GNU-Hurd, BeOS, etc) on a non NTFS partition. Make sure to boot into text mode by default!
3. Install lynx and visit Hotmail and Yahoo.
4. Enjoy the spammers and his hollywood expert witness expresion when booting!
Alternatively, buy the following auction at ebay: http://tinyurl.com/yjhav2 . I'm certain you'll know what to do next. =)
If you are using outlook, you can use OLSpamCop to rescue the headers and report to pretty much anyone any spam (including enforcement@sec.gov). It is a free download available here: http://www.olspamcop.org/doc.shtml#install
But I seriously doubt the SEC will be interested in origin of the SPAM. More likely they will do an audit on the fraudulent symbol. It usually is much more effective than tracing the origin of the spam, and it is more likely asses will get busted and the criminals (the people who proffit from the poor schmucks buying the stock) will get sent to jail.
Nevertheless, if you want to report and spam, use spamcop so we can mitigate the damage done from the source before it pumps more shit onto the net.
Just one small clarification, the contract was a chinese government contract. Just goes to prove that there are governments out there who still care about the well being of their governed.
"Government however should promote within it's own and never send work away."
Not too long ago, I had the chance to go to a contractor convention of one of our major clients. There, I had the chance to meet our chinese counterpart and even though he seemed very energetic and enthusiastic it was apparent he was far from being on the same level than most of the contractors over there.
Later on, I asked our client what was the deal with the chinese contractor. It turns out the client won a huge government contract, but within the contract, there was a clause which stipulated that 85% of the workforce used to execute the contract had to be chinese, and if required the contractor would be in need to train such required workforce.
I guess that explains a lot on how these people are achieving such levels of productivity in such a short time.
Unless you are using other protocols (non-IP based), yes.
"I'm not sure how to guarantee that everything is going through the VPN and not through the insecure local net."
Assuming you are using Windows 2K-XP, open the VPN connection's properties, select TCP/IP properties (networking properties), click on advanced options and click "use as default gateway..." checkbox.
My system is in spanish, so some some of the labels might not match on a word-per-word basis, but I'm sure you can sort out the differences.
"some of the badges he went for actually seemed rather hard to get..."
Apparently, this new badge is part of Bushie's new "No scout left behind" program.
"Perhaps they should also have a badge for not IM'ing your congressman."
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Not yet, but it seems there is one for exchanging sexually explicit emails with your congresscritter!
http://www.senate.gov/reference/reference_index_s
I guess its time for me to step in and end your confusion:
ed
They figured a way to stop a Supernova, a change on Earth's orbit should be a piece of cake!
"unknown and other browsers are the remainder."
At last, Lynx has been vindicated!
Spamhouse chose to fight in a federal tribunal and then defaulted the ruling to e360. The ruling is a federal mandate, not statal.
This really has quit being a nerd site hasn't it? I don't even bother with a TV.
Wow!!! you watch movies from a 21 inch display? Man when I grown up I want to buy your exact same setup!. The fact is that most nerds have grown up and gotten a family and a real job. They do have some cash and are willing to spend some of it in proper entretainment.
I play everything on my computer.
computers are nice to work with, but when it comes to watching video you will probably want to seat on a couch and watch it on a proper screen(and no, your computer monitor will simply not fit the bill). If you really want to take the "nerdy" road and watch content off your network you will mod an Xbox and install XBMC.
I think most dvd player software pretty much handles the different standards pretty well.
Think again, there are lots of DVD players who will market themselves as true multiregional (region free + PAL NTSC auto conversion), but when it comes to delivering, *surprise* *surpsrise*; they will either crap themselves in their pants or simply do a half ass job.
No, that's good CGI,
Its not only good CGI, the music ("Duel of Fates") basically saved the entire movie. If there is one person George Lucas should be thanking is John Williams. Actually, the music throughout the hexology is clearly a work of art.
>Group policy
This sounds like a good alternative to me. I'll take a look to it.
Implementing Citrix is quite expensive too! In the end, you will probably end up saving in support and upkeeping, but if you think that the initial investment will be less than a workstation based environment, you are in for a surprise.