Telcos tried this for a while. Problem is the PVC will inevitably get crushed and then you're trenching again. Better option would be to run a multi-strand cable and let competitors lease dark fibre. This pays for the infrastructure and upkeep, plus gives competitive access to services over separate lines.
Unfortunately most towns don't want to be in the ISP business, they just want high speed so people come live there. For that reason most will hand the whole thing off to a provider so they can sell themselves as a high-speed community. A few with a techy on council will go full-bore into ISP world, but that poses an additional problem of what happens when that person retires? Is there a business case to create a business (nonprofit?) around this? Tough questions.
tldr; love the idea, and trenched fibre (or 5G?) will present a real opportunity. Just a matter of getting councils on board.
It's not just IP. I've come across situations where "People you may know" were folks I was at the same event with that I don't know, work in the same industry with, or live nearby. Same has happened traveling to resorts in Mexico where I take my phone for emergency calls.
Facebook's app asks for permission to GPS and cellular location info. If you're logged-in with that phone it probably syncs a location history. Just keeping your personal profile on a device means exposing that info.
Maybe if you're not taking labs. I graduated from there a long time ago and had science semesters over that amount.
This number is deceivingly low. Add a couple chem or bio labs that most science programs require and you'll easily hit 10k. Engineering or any professional degree is significantly more.
The coal phase-out is on course to happen a lot sooner in Alberta. Our provincial government has made climate change a major part of its platform, which also includes leading the charge towards a "carbon tax" designed to cap carbon-emitters by placing an economic penalty on going over the limit.
Mixed feelings about this. It's impossible to deny man made climate change exists, on the other hand we seem to be moving at a faster pace than our ability to replace our energy needs with cleaner/renewable sources. Ontario's facing a self-made energy crisis right now where power prices are driving people to pick between paying their hydro bills or buying food, and that says nothing about driving business out of the province.
Fortunately this is a technology problem. My hope is Elon Musk's battery tech improves in the next 3-5 years so that Alberta can benefit from harvesting and storing energy affordably in winter.
I like the logic though. If I replaced 4 in that character set with the word God it would necessarily make some people believe that 2 + 2 proved the existence of a creator.
This is just repackaging Anselm's Ontological argument for the existence of God: postulating "a being of which no greater can be conceived" would necessarily mean God exists. Just like living in a computer simulation: imagine "a computer simulation where no greater simulation can be conceived".
But it doesn't make things real. Just because you'd have to imagine a real God doesn't necessarily make it exist outside your head. Same with the simulation.
Not disagreeing with you. The cost of automation is steadily decreasing, and what it can do is increasing. Automating McDonald's is inevitable, $15/hr wages are just speeding things up a little.
Something with a nice-sized ruleset that works on ASICs and you're done. Most companies sell them, and if you're just selectively passing traffic by IP range (or in fancier devices by port) why not offload the hard rules before wasting cycles on traffic you just want to drop? Or just another software device if you're not wanting to buy hardware.
We do this for selective parts of the network where dropping attackers on one machine keeps them from running through an entire block of IPs. A lot of it's even scripted: more than 3 IPs getting brute forced? That's a 24 hour ban and email to the associated ARIN/APNIC/RIPE contact. Granted APNIC/RIPE tends to stay on that list a lot longer than 24 hours...
I was just thinking that. This is so broad as to be unusable.
And mature products like DD-WRT are what make consumer-grade routers fly. It's pretty much the only reason I'll buy an ASUS, because the stock firmware doesn't have the feature set needed for latency sensitive hardware.
WordPress is the store-bought bread solution. Does what most people need, is advanced enough that most work can be done through the admin GUI, and plugins are easy enough to build that a fellow by-hand person can figure them out without too much difficulty.
The only caveat I'd put on using WordPress is that you need to treat updates like you would on Windows: make sure your WordPress core and plugins are always up to date. Its huge user-base means there's a lot more hackers running automated exploits that'll bog-down a web hosting server if you get compromised, and that might get your account suspended. On our shared hosting we're now recommending clients install WordPress via Installatron (a cPanel addon) and have it automatically patch everything by default.
Simpler sites, but more OS-level issues from going mainstream.
Cirque starts with something like this in Vegas at the beginning of Ka. Some "guy" is talking on the phone and the cast deals with him hilariously. Coincidentally it's also a great show if you haven't seen it.
It's still something I think about when someone can't find the off button on their tech during a movie.
LOR Technology is pretty simple and your IT knowledge will translate pretty well to get it setup. The gist is you're using a LOR network protocol over RS-485 (long-range serial) that itself is using CAT5/6 cable to work. This network needs a control node that's either a hardware device or (like most people) a computer running the LOR software package, both of which can work with an audio component.
The neat part about starting here is that there's translation hardware between LOR and the more widely used DMX protocol when you're ready to step-up to fancier shows. DMX gears tends to be cheaper because there's more of it (and more things you can control), but it'll also need a fair bit of comfort with stuff you can start-off learning by point-and-click in LOR. I've been playing with some DMX stuff this year that'll be in the show for December 2015, but didn't have the time to get it perfect on this go.
One thing to keep in mind: more fancy = more bandwidth. Single flashing strands don't use much traffic, but when you start looking at 150 LED strands where each pixel has RGB+intensity I'd recommend against going wireless.
Only one proper server running ESXi, but the rest is all rack-mountable:
- Unraid server (bought their premade) - Dell 2950 that's been decommissioned from the DC - 24 port Gig switch - 24 port Gig PoE switch for our phones - TV streaming head-end. 3 Cable boxes on shelves - Control4 main server and amp, which seemed like a good idea at the time. Would just get the amp and an open source streaming box in the future - Modem and router
Only addition will be UPS at some point. It's only half a rack, but being able to lock it and run cables through the top means the kids have zero ability to go after what's inside. I do some software development from home so it's a nice setup for days when sweat pants trumps suits:)
You'll learn a ton, many of them no longer suck, and it can definitely speed-up the development time of future projects.
On the web I work primarily with PHP and for a long time the frameworks weren't any better than reusing my own class libraries. These days there's some very comprehensive ones that do things faster and simpler than I do already, and have been well worth my time to get better at.
A quick Google search shows there's some mature ones for different use cases of Python as well. Research a few and give them a try. You might just find their automating of the less fun parts of programming to be a huge boost to your development work.
You're not going to out party these guys, and they don't expect you to. Instead, you will bring life experience balancing a career in software with family, which I guarantee they'll be asking you questions about. Most of them are working to be like you with a family and kids they want to go home to.
As for the start-up side, make sure you and your employer have clearly understood work expectations. You don't want to be the bottle-neck on a critical release cycle because of family commitments, so sharing your schedule and setting fair expectations on when you can work is important. That doesn't make you ineligible for a start-up job, it just means that like the Tahoe trip you need to make sure the plans are known beforehand.
Looping or restarting is one thing, the fact that someone's running us in the background while playing a galactic edition of their favourite strategy game raises a whole other set of existential questions.
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Telcos tried this for a while. Problem is the PVC will inevitably get crushed and then you're trenching again. Better option would be to run a multi-strand cable and let competitors lease dark fibre. This pays for the infrastructure and upkeep, plus gives competitive access to services over separate lines.
Unfortunately most towns don't want to be in the ISP business, they just want high speed so people come live there. For that reason most will hand the whole thing off to a provider so they can sell themselves as a high-speed community. A few with a techy on council will go full-bore into ISP world, but that poses an additional problem of what happens when that person retires? Is there a business case to create a business (nonprofit?) around this? Tough questions.
tldr; love the idea, and trenched fibre (or 5G?) will present a real opportunity. Just a matter of getting councils on board.
Too late, he clicked a friend's link to discover what kind of potato he was :(
It's not just IP. I've come across situations where "People you may know" were folks I was at the same event with that I don't know, work in the same industry with, or live nearby. Same has happened traveling to resorts in Mexico where I take my phone for emergency calls.
Facebook's app asks for permission to GPS and cellular location info. If you're logged-in with that phone it probably syncs a location history. Just keeping your personal profile on a device means exposing that info.
Came here to say someone will take this as a challenge. You made it by post #2
Sadly no mod points, but you win the internet for today.
Maybe if you're not taking labs. I graduated from there a long time ago and had science semesters over that amount.
This number is deceivingly low. Add a couple chem or bio labs that most science programs require and you'll easily hit 10k. Engineering or any professional degree is significantly more.
The coal phase-out is on course to happen a lot sooner in Alberta. Our provincial government has made climate change a major part of its platform, which also includes leading the charge towards a "carbon tax" designed to cap carbon-emitters by placing an economic penalty on going over the limit.
Mixed feelings about this. It's impossible to deny man made climate change exists, on the other hand we seem to be moving at a faster pace than our ability to replace our energy needs with cleaner/renewable sources. Ontario's facing a self-made energy crisis right now where power prices are driving people to pick between paying their hydro bills or buying food, and that says nothing about driving business out of the province.
Fortunately this is a technology problem. My hope is Elon Musk's battery tech improves in the next 3-5 years so that Alberta can benefit from harvesting and storing energy affordably in winter.
...not sure if whoosh?
I like the logic though. If I replaced 4 in that character set with the word God it would necessarily make some people believe that 2 + 2 proved the existence of a creator.
This is just repackaging Anselm's Ontological argument for the existence of God: postulating "a being of which no greater can be conceived" would necessarily mean God exists. Just like living in a computer simulation: imagine "a computer simulation where no greater simulation can be conceived".
But it doesn't make things real. Just because you'd have to imagine a real God doesn't necessarily make it exist outside your head. Same with the simulation.
Neat thought experiment, not a proof.
40hrs/wk x 50 weeks/yr = 2000 hours.
Not disagreeing with you. The cost of automation is steadily decreasing, and what it can do is increasing. Automating McDonald's is inevitable, $15/hr wages are just speeding things up a little.
Something with a nice-sized ruleset that works on ASICs and you're done. Most companies sell them, and if you're just selectively passing traffic by IP range (or in fancier devices by port) why not offload the hard rules before wasting cycles on traffic you just want to drop? Or just another software device if you're not wanting to buy hardware.
We do this for selective parts of the network where dropping attackers on one machine keeps them from running through an entire block of IPs. A lot of it's even scripted: more than 3 IPs getting brute forced? That's a 24 hour ban and email to the associated ARIN/APNIC/RIPE contact. Granted APNIC/RIPE tends to stay on that list a lot longer than 24 hours...
Sans sarcasm I would've also accepted: "duh"
I was just thinking that. This is so broad as to be unusable.
And mature products like DD-WRT are what make consumer-grade routers fly. It's pretty much the only reason I'll buy an ASUS, because the stock firmware doesn't have the feature set needed for latency sensitive hardware.
Might not take a week. I hear one of their techs just met a rather pleasant prince from Nigeria...
You young-ins. We employ only the finest of boulders to stop folks from driving into the walls of the colo :)
Came here to say this. Just borrowed an old 10/100 PCMCIA card from a friend to recover some nostalgia from long ago.
Also there are PCMCIA hard drives if you have the two-unit slot. Depending on your bios those might not even need drivers.
WordPress is the store-bought bread solution. Does what most people need, is advanced enough that most work can be done through the admin GUI, and plugins are easy enough to build that a fellow by-hand person can figure them out without too much difficulty.
The only caveat I'd put on using WordPress is that you need to treat updates like you would on Windows: make sure your WordPress core and plugins are always up to date. Its huge user-base means there's a lot more hackers running automated exploits that'll bog-down a web hosting server if you get compromised, and that might get your account suspended. On our shared hosting we're now recommending clients install WordPress via Installatron (a cPanel addon) and have it automatically patch everything by default.
Simpler sites, but more OS-level issues from going mainstream.
Cirque starts with something like this in Vegas at the beginning of Ka. Some "guy" is talking on the phone and the cast deals with him hilariously. Coincidentally it's also a great show if you haven't seen it.
It's still something I think about when someone can't find the off button on their tech during a movie.
I started down the fancy Christmas lights path last year after seeing a 12-string CCR tree based-on LOR (light-o-rama) that this guy made:
http://www.superstarlights.com/Sequences/Videos.php
LOR Technology is pretty simple and your IT knowledge will translate pretty well to get it setup. The gist is you're using a LOR network protocol over RS-485 (long-range serial) that itself is using CAT5/6 cable to work. This network needs a control node that's either a hardware device or (like most people) a computer running the LOR software package, both of which can work with an audio component.
The neat part about starting here is that there's translation hardware between LOR and the more widely used DMX protocol when you're ready to step-up to fancier shows. DMX gears tends to be cheaper because there's more of it (and more things you can control), but it'll also need a fair bit of comfort with stuff you can start-off learning by point-and-click in LOR. I've been playing with some DMX stuff this year that'll be in the show for December 2015, but didn't have the time to get it perfect on this go.
One thing to keep in mind: more fancy = more bandwidth. Single flashing strands don't use much traffic, but when you start looking at 150 LED strands where each pixel has RGB+intensity I'd recommend against going wireless.
Happy learning, and post a video!
Only one proper server running ESXi, but the rest is all rack-mountable:
- Unraid server (bought their premade)
- Dell 2950 that's been decommissioned from the DC
- 24 port Gig switch
- 24 port Gig PoE switch for our phones
- TV streaming head-end. 3 Cable boxes on shelves
- Control4 main server and amp, which seemed like a good idea at the time. Would just get the amp and an open source streaming box in the future
- Modem and router
Only addition will be UPS at some point. It's only half a rack, but being able to lock it and run cables through the top means the kids have zero ability to go after what's inside. I do some software development from home so it's a nice setup for days when sweat pants trumps suits :)
Not all nerds are Canadian, you insensitive clod! ...I'm sorry.
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You'll learn a ton, many of them no longer suck, and it can definitely speed-up the development time of future projects.
On the web I work primarily with PHP and for a long time the frameworks weren't any better than reusing my own class libraries. These days there's some very comprehensive ones that do things faster and simpler than I do already, and have been well worth my time to get better at.
A quick Google search shows there's some mature ones for different use cases of Python as well. Research a few and give them a try. You might just find their automating of the less fun parts of programming to be a huge boost to your development work.
You're not going to out party these guys, and they don't expect you to. Instead, you will bring life experience balancing a career in software with family, which I guarantee they'll be asking you questions about. Most of them are working to be like you with a family and kids they want to go home to.
As for the start-up side, make sure you and your employer have clearly understood work expectations. You don't want to be the bottle-neck on a critical release cycle because of family commitments, so sharing your schedule and setting fair expectations on when you can work is important. That doesn't make you ineligible for a start-up job, it just means that like the Tahoe trip you need to make sure the plans are known beforehand.
Hope this helps,
...it'll let the Feds find them just as easily....
Or does anyone seriously think the NSA can't use this service just as well as Random Internet Idiot?
Who says the NSA doesn't run the site?
Unless you created the creator of the pocket universe...
It's watchmakers all the way down, friend :)
Looping or restarting is one thing, the fact that someone's running us in the background while playing a galactic edition of their favourite strategy game raises a whole other set of existential questions.
Zug-zug, brother.